The compulsory internships in the 2nd and 3rd academic year have to last a minimum amount of hours and will give you ECTS credits.

• Social Work = a total of 700 hours for all internships
• Social Education = 200 h for each of the two internships

A 100 hours internship of orientation is mandatory at the first year for our students in Social Work.

• Description of the orientation internship
• Syllabus internship 2nd Year Social Work
• Syllabus internship 3rd Year Social Work
• Guidelines for the orientation internship (in German and Italian)

Optional internships will not give you any ECTS credits.

Deadline

All internship projects must be placed in Career Hub by 11 December 2023 (compulsory internships 2024 for the Bachelors in Social Work and in Social Education).

Step by Step to the Internship

(N.B. The internship project must be created by the company in the Career Hub at least two weeks before the start date of the internship). 

1. Find a company or institution in which you want to do your internship. Find opportunities here.
2. Discuss all internship details with your referee in the company/institution. In particular, clarify all duties, procedures, competences, instruments, the duration, the location and the working hours.
3. Please register in the Career Hub (if you have not done so already).
4. The company/institution will have to register in the Career Hub too, or login (if already registered) and proceed with creating the internship project. To do so, the company/institution needs: your tax number and matriculation number.
   Guidelines for the hosting company on activation of an internship
5. Prerequisite for the activation of your internship is the attendance of the general work safety course (4 hours). Without proof of completion of the general work safety course, we cannot approve or activate your internship.

   If you have already taken and completed the general work safety course, we ask you to fill out this self-declaration, sign it and upload it to the Career Hub (in document management).

   If you attended the mentioned course via unibz, then we already have your data in the system and you do not need to upload a self-declaration.

   If you have not completed the general work safety course either externally or through unibz, then you must complete the same BEFORE the internship begins. Instructions can be found online.

6. Smartworking: Internships take place on site / in the company. At the explicit request of the host company, a mixed-mode internship is possible. Internships that take place entirely in smart working will not be approved.

   For mixed-mode internships, a specific declaration must be completed and uploaded to the Career Hub before the internship is activated.

7. After the approval of the internship project, you will receive further information via an automatic email from the Career Hub.
8. Status of internships in the Career Hub:
   To be approved: The internship project is awaiting approval by the academic tutor/supervisor and the Career Service.
   Approved not active: The internship project was approved but still needs to be activated. Activation is obtained by providing a signed copy of the internship project and copies of I.D. of company tutor and intern uploaded to the Career Hub.
   Active: All necessary procedures have been completed correctly and all documents are present. The internship can start on the scheduled date.
9. If, during the internship, an extension or early termination is required, this can be requested by the company directly in the Career Hub.

On completion of your internship the following steps must be performed:

1. On the final date of the internship the company tutor and intern both receive an automatic invitation (link) to evaluate the internship.
2. Your final report must be uploaded to the Career Hub by you through the specific function of: document administration > add document > final report. This step should be performed within a short period of time after completion of your internship.
3. After completion of the internship evaluation by the company tutor and the intern, and after the internship report has been uploaded to the Career Hub (classified as “final report”), the academic tutor/supervisor or the supervisor will also receive an automatic invitation to evaluate the internship.
4. The Career Service (the Internship Commission for the Bachelor in Social Work during the exam sessions) registers the credits (if applicable) once all the previous steps have been completed. The internship will also be listed in the diploma supplement.

Guidelines for evaluation of company tutor - Bachelor Social Work (German/Italian)

Guidelines for evaluation of company tutor - Bachelor Social Education (German/Italian)

Types of internships

Exam code (one of these codes must be inserted in the internship description of the Career Hub by the company)

Vademecum (German/Italian)

Guidelines for the final report (German/Italian)

First page final report (German/Italian)

Information on the processing of data for the purpose of curricular and extra-curricular traineeship

To find an internship, you may use these following resources:

• List of companies and projects for Social Work and Social Education
• Internship offers in the Career Hub
• Connect at unibz 2019 - List of participating companies
• Connect at unibz 2020 - List of hosting companies
• Connect at unibz 2022 – List of hosting companies

You may also check these following links to useful portals and websites where you might find internships in Italy or abroad. In spite of our thorough evaluation of these sites, we cannot guarantee their quality

Internships in Italy

In South Tyrol:

• sh.asus (South Tyrolean Student Association) in German or Italian
• Internships at the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano

In other Italian regions:

• Careerjet.it
• Jobadvisor
• Repubblica degli stagisti

Internships in Europe

• Dailyinternship
• Europe-Internship
• Internships at EU-institutions (in Italian or German)
• IES Consulting
• Spain Internship
• Going Global
• Qreer - European Technical Job Board in Engineering, Science and Technology

Internships in Germany

• Absolventa
• Arbeitsagentur für Arbeit
• Campus Career Network
• Monster
• Jobsuma
• Karriere.de
• Unicum

Internships in Austria

• AMS - Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich

Internships in Finland

• Rekrytointi.com

Internships in France

• Centre Français de Berlin
• Deutsch-Französische Industrie- und Handelskammer

Internships in the United Kingdom

• Milkround
• Placement UK
• Internwise

Internships in non-EU countries

• Going Global
• China

Internships within specific fields

Social Work

• Sozial Info Schweiz