External Internships

The academic external internships are an educational activity performed by the students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in entities external to the university.

The objective is to complement and apply knowledges acquired during the theoretical-practical education in real work contexts through the contact with professionals in the chemical sector and to promote the acquisition of competences preparing for the professional exercise and facilitating their future incorporation to the labour market.
The academic external internships can be of two type:

• Curricular external internships: these are an academic activity configured as an optional subject of 6 ECTS credits in the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry study plan offered on the second term of the last year.
• Extracurricular external internships: these are voluntary internships which can be performed during the education period, and that even though fulfil the same purpose than the curricular internships, they are not part of the corresponding study plan. However, this type of internship in reflected in the Diploma Supplement, according to the current legislation.

Regulation

The applicable regulations for the external internships of the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry are the following:

• External internships regulation for the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, passed in Faculty Board meeting on July 26, 2018.
• The Chancellor Resolutions on February 21, 2013, establish the procedure for the performance of curricular and extracurricular external academic internships in the University of Vigo.
• External academic internships regulation for students in the University of Vigo passed on the Governing Board meeting of May 24, 2012.
• Royal Decree 592/2014, of the 11th of July, which regulates the curricular external internships for university students.