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Internships for students become a training activity under the supervision of the Faculty, the goal of which is to apply and complete the academic formation acquired, encouraging the professional skills that prepare for professional activities which facilitate the employment of them.

The framework of these activities is called educational cooperation agreements, regulated by Royal Decree 592/2014 which regulates the external academic practices of college students. 

Information for companies

Through educational cooperation agreements, the University gives companies the opportunity to take on students in their final year so that they are able to gain practical professional experience.

More than 300 students of the Barcelona School of Informatics take part in the educational cooperation agreement of the Informatics Engineering degree and different Masters set by the Faculty.

Students who sign an educational cooperation agreement are subject to the following requirements:

Maximum number of hours:

A total of 900 hours of internship can be done by a student in the same academic year.

Educational cooperation agreement establishes the maximum number of internship hours during the academic period will be: 

  • GEI and GIA: maximum of 1.800 hours
  • Master of 60 ECTS: maximum of 600 hours
  • Master of 90 ECTS: maximum of 900 hours
  • Master of 120 ECTS: maximum of 1.200 hours

The academic year for agreements starts on 16th of September until 15th of September the following year.

It is an indispensable condition for the student to have passed at least half of the credits on the course they are studying to participate in an agreement.

The remuneration students received is paid directly by the company.  

The gross amount to be paid may not be below (*):

10€ per hour for Degree students

11€ per hour for Master students

(*) In agreements with a start date from January 1, 2023.


For students it is income from their work for third parties and is therefore subject to personal income tax.

The income tax that company must withhold is at least a 2%, because an educational cooperation agreement is considered to be equivalent to an employment relationship lasting under a year.  The company must provide the student with a tax certificate to this effect.

Agreements signed as of 2012/2013 year will have an invoice of 15.7% for administrative services, furthermore VAT will be 21%.

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Companies must include, from the date of 1th of July 2013, students who sign an agreement in the Social Security system obligatorily. More information.
 

Documentation required to enter into an agreement is:

  • Agreement
  • Work plan

Notice about signing documents:

The agreement must be signed electronically.

The gross amount to be paid may not be below (*):

10€ per hour for Degree students

11€ per hour for Master students

(*) In agreements with a start date from January 1, 2023.


Faculty won’t establish agreements with companies whose invoices are not paid. 

The procedures for the agreement must begin 15 days before the start date of the practices.

See the New management practices in company section of the FIB website.(in Spanish)


Companies should take into account the students of GEI, GIA, MAI, MEI and MIRI can choose between a curricular internship (implies a Final Project Degree or a Final Master Thesis, and a recognition of credits) or extracurricular.

In case as an agreement is cancelled, please contact by email to: .

 

Information for students

Agreements can be done in collaborative entities, such as companies, national and international public and private institutions, as well as in the Faculty.
Considering the academic internship formation, they will not be subject to contractual employment obligations, or its content cannot be a substitution of a job benefit.

  • Extracurricular internship (Degree and Masters)
They are not involved either the study plan or academic record. However, they will incorporate to European Supplement to the university degree of the student.
  • Curricular Internship (Degree)

They are included in the curriculum of Informatics Engineering Degree as an optative area and became part of academic activities that involve:

  • A Degree Final Project development modality B with an Educational Cooperation Agreement
  • The recognition of 12 optative credits

The minimum loan of the internship subject and the Degree Final Project is 735 hours.

How it works

  • When an agreement starts, the Degree Final Project modality B needs to be registered (The Degree Final Project will be registered if the student has passed all compulsory subjects and a minimum of three compulsory subjects of the specialisation).
  • The center will do a pre-register (12 optative ECTS). The official registration of the subject is made simultaneously with the Degree Final Project registration.

The Faculty of Informatics reserves the right to participate in an agreement, as well as an existing agreement renewals, when the academic performance of the student is not adjusted to the minimum established: an academic parameter (it is known as the quoficient between credits students has passed and credits students has registered) superior to 0,50.

Curricular Internship (Masters)

  • A Final Thesis Project development modality B with an Educational Cooperation Agreement
  • The recognition of optative credits

The student, who wants to participate in an internship, has to accomplish:

Students of degree

  • In the first date of the agreement, student must have passed 50% of credits on the course they are studying.
  • Students must have subjects registered or either the Final Project.

Students of Master

  • In the first date of the agreement, student must have passed 15 credits on the master.
  • Students must have subjects registered or either the Final Tesis.



 To do an internship:
See the New management practices in company section of the FIB website.

Notice about signing documents:

The student will sign the agreement electronically through the UPC signatory system.

 

The gross amount to be paid may not be below (*):

10€ per hour for Degree students

11€ per hour for Master students

(*) In agreements with a start date from January 1, 2023.

 

In the case of academic internships at the UPC, the economic regime will be that established in UPC the Regulations:

5 hours / week: 175 euros/month

10 hours / week: 350 euros/month

15 hours / week: 525 euros/month

20 hours / week: 700 euros/month

 

In the case of academic internships at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), from the 2021-2022 academic year, the amount that the student will receive is:

 8 € / hour gross for Degree students

 9 € / hour gross for Master students

 

The Faculty does not accept internships when the tasks involved are different from the functions of an Informatics Engineer.

At the end of the internship:

Once the internship has finished, the company tutor and the student must fill in a final report through the Racó.

These documents are essential for the evaluation of the internship.

From the Formative plan proposed initially, the tutor’s report of the Business Company or Institution and the student report will evaluate the internship as favourable or unfavourable.

Curricular Internship:

The Final Project registration must be done in the previous quarter to the Final Project inscription.
The final result from an internship with a favourable evaluation, will be the obtained in the Final Project. In the case of an unfavourable obtained result or not to have the Final Project registered in the subsequent quarter of the initial internship, the result will be a failure.

Remind you the Final Project in B modality is defended in the first tribunal meeting after the finalization of agreement in the business company which has done.

 

Regulations

National level

Royal decree 592/2014 of 11th July, which regulates the internship of university students.

UPC level

Governing board agreement 2022/05/13, which approves the internship regulation of UPC. Document approved in 5 July 2022.

FIB level

 Regulations for external academic placements and Final Project Regulation (GEI, MAI, MEI, MIRI, MAI, MDS). 

Contacts


External relations (USIRE)

Telephone
(34) 93 401 69 54
Email

External Academic Practices - Educational Cooperative Agreement

Telephone
(34) 93 401 77 22
Email