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 temporary or permanent work, apprenticeship, traineeships, and limited-time work contracts ("lavoro a progetto"). These are subject to the same rules (duration, positioning and channels for finding the experience) as internships. Follow the instructions described in the paragraph 5.4. To obtain the authorization in advance students must send an email to the MSc Program Director and to the Internship Office (infostage@unibocconi.it) 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 he 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 internship students must submit a short report containing information on the nature and duration of the activity along with 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 covalidation of the internship 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.
Recognition takes place considering a list of participants provided to the Internship Office by the Program Director or his/her delegate, along with the recognition form which must be signed by the Program Director and to be returned to the Internship Office along with the other end of internship forms in order to have the internship registered in the student's 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 (former 8344) MANAGEMENT OF FASHION AND LUXURY COMPANIES and 20241 MANAGEMENT OF DESIGN (former 8409);
- students enrolled in other Master of Science programs choosing at least 1 from among the courses offered on the fashion topic: code 20338 (former 8400) MANAGEMENT DELLE IMPRESE DI MODA: i processi operativi [Management of fashion companies: operational processes] and code 20339 (former 8401) MANAGEMENT DELLE IMPRESE DI MODA: i processi strategici [Management of fashion companies: strategic 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 2011. The profile is published on the website at http://www.unibocconi.eu/profiles
Information
For further information on the above programs we suggest you to consult the website: http://www.cs.unibocconi.eu/
Markets and External Affair Division
Internship Office
Piazza Sraffa 11 - 20136 Milano
+39 02 5836 2712
infostage@unibocconi.it
infostagebienni@unibocconi.it (only to forward the emails for the authorization in advance by the Program Director).
Placement Library/Career Service Information Desk
Piazza Sraffa 11 - 20136 Milano
Ph. +39 02 5836 2711
placement.library@unibocconi.it
