GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

Though internships remain the main educational activity aimed at facilitating professional choices, other activities known as "similar activities" are permitted in lieu of the internships. These include:

• qualified work experiences, with contracts different from those of internships, such as , for example, temporary or permanent work, apprenticeship, traineeships. These are subject to the same rules (duration, positioning and channels for finding the experience) as internships. To obtain the authorization in advance students must send an email to the MSc Program Director and communication to the Internship Office through the Help@Contact procedure available on the yoU@B Diary before the internship starts or as soon as it starts including copy of the contract drawn up with the company. Students must verify that the contract includes (or, as an alternative they must provide the following data in attachment) the following information: name and company typology, field of the activity, number of employees, location, name and contacts of a company reference person, period of the activity.
  At the end of the minimum duration for the internship recognition students must submit a short report containing information on the nature and duration of the activity and a declaration of the company certifying the presence of the student at the compay during the period specified on the recognition request. After the appropriate assessment the Internship Office communicates the outcome of the student’s request and if positive prepares the recognition form in order to have the internship recorded in the student's academic career to be signed by the MSc program Director and to be returned to the Welcome desk of the One-Stop Service Center. Students who wish to request the validation of the internship they have carried out before the enrolment to the MSc programs (after having been awarded the undergraduate degree) must compulsorily request it before the end of the teaching period (end of lessons of second semester) of the first year of studies.
• in-the-field projects (administered by MSc Direction. These projects are promoted by a teacher and approved by the MSc Program Director following specific agreements with a company, an institution or professional office.

They must include the following activities:

• in-class: classroom activities guided by the professor (methodological tools), presentations from professionals in their field (e.g., applications of methodological tools). These classroom activities are not part of the educational activities which are included in the program requirements;
• in-the-field activities monitored by professionals in the field and by a teacher: case analyses, formulation and presentation of the work (group or individual) to outside professionals in the field and to a teacher. Since internships must last 10-12 weeks (about 400-480 work hours), the activities mentioned above are structured to meet the same criteria in terms of hours and/or workload. In this way the field project is equivalent to the internship.

The majority of hours must be dedicated to in-the-field activities.
Students must request, via email, the authorization in advance to the Program Director. The recognition is made depending on a list provided by the Internship Office to the Program Director. This list includes those students who have positively completed the experience. Students will have to collect the recognition form at the Internship Office. The form must be signed by the Program Director and to be returned to the Welcome Desk of the One-Stop Service Center for the internship recording into the academic career.
The Laboratorio di moda e design  (Fashion and design workshop), code 20308 (Prof. S. Testa) is a "field project" which is offered to:

• Management choosing the Management of Fashion & Design Major
• ACME students choosing the following courses/workshops: 20237  MANAGEMENT OF FASHION AND LUXURY COMPANIES and 20241 MANAGEMENT OF DESIGN;
• students enrolled in other Master of Science programs choosing at least 1 from among the courses offered on the fashion topic: code 20338 MANAGEMENT DELLE IMPRESE DI MODA: i processi operativi [Management of fashion companies: operational processes] and 20237 (former 8344) MANAGEMENT OF FASHION AND LUXURY COMPANIES

Students enrol in such activity via yoU@B student Diary (sign up for "Various activities") approximately in the month of February 2013. The profile is published on the website at http://www.unibocconi.eu/profiles