• Additional disposition 52nd of the Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of 30 October, approving the consolidated text of the General Social Security Law.
• Criteria for the Directorate General for the Regulation of the Social Security about the application of the additional disposition 52nd of the Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of 30 October (Social Security: Registration (seg-social.es).
• Order ISM/386/2024, of 29 April, regulating the subscription of a special agreement with the Social Security for the purpose of counting contribution periods corresponding to training internships and external academic internships regulated in the additional disposition 52nd of the consolidated text of the General Social Security Law, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of 30 October, carried out prior to its entry into force.
• Order ISM/812/2024, from 26 July, modifying the order ISM/386/2024, of 29 April, regulating the subscription of a special agreement with the Social Security for the purpose of counting contribution periods corresponding to training internships and external academic internships regulated in the additional disposition 52nd of the consolidated text of the General Social Security Law, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of 30 October, carried out prior to its entry into force. 

01/01/2024

Registration in the General Regime with the Social Security as assimilated to employees.

The registration in the General Regime with the Social Security of all students from the University with unpaid internships, aimed at the official acquisition of undergraduate degrees, master's degree, PhD, and own degrees will be processed, EXCEPT the registration of those who are CIVIL SERVANTS, RETIRED PENSIONERS, or have PERMANENT DISABILITY.

• The Tresoreria General de la Seguretat Social (TGSS) will inform the University about the registered student's situation which will exclude him from the obligation of contributing. 

• It will not be mandatory to contribute for people who, during the internships:
  • Are already registered in any of the regimes of the Social Security system for practising another work activity.
  • Are already in a SIMILAR SITUATION OF BEING REGISTERED with the obligation of contributing (Receivers of the benefit because of unemployment)
  • to those for whom the period already appears as CONTRIBUTED for benefit purposes (Leave of absences that count toward contribution periods, such as leave for childcare or family care, within the legally established terms.
    • News Bulletin XARXA 16/2023(page 2: Non-inclusion in the DA 52 LGSS application area of certain people and right to other benefits)
• The registration in the General Regime with the Social Security as students in unpaid internships, DO NOT INTERFERE with the described situations, and cannot generate any inconvenient to students. For this reason, they must communicate to the University any incident related with this section, by sending an e-mail to:
  • afiliacion.practicas@uv.es

The protective action is the corresponding of the General Regime of the Social Security, with the exclusion of the unemployment protection, the coverage of the Fons de Garantia Salarial and of Professional Training. It is also excluded the protection for Temporary Disability benefits derived from common contingencies.

Students who were not affected on the day of the causal event of the benefit by any of the expected exclusions in the Excluded Groups section can access to these benefits.

• Temporary Disability benefit derived from ACCIDENT AT WORK.
  • For healthcare, in the case of having an accident at work in the centre where the internships take place, or going to/coming back from the centre to the home address, students must:
    • Go to any health centre of the mutual insurance UMIVALE ACTIVA.
      • https://umivaleactiva.es/red-de-centros
    • Send to this e-mail: afiliacion.practicas@uv.es, the CERTIFICATE signed by the tutor of your internships:
      • Certificate to confirm the effective realization of the internships in case of accident at work
  • In the case that the mutual insurance UMIVALE ACTIVA issues a medical leave by Temporary Disability because of an Accident at Work, the Environmental, Health and Safety Services of the university will contact the student to study the circumstances of the accident.
    • From the Social Security Section, the interested person will be contacted in order to ask for the necessary data to make the payment for the corresponding economic benefits.
• CHILDBIRTH benefits and CHILDCARE
  • The Institut Nacional de la Seguretat Social (INSS) will send directly to the Social Security Section of the university the information about the childbirth situation.
    • The Social Security Section will directly contact with the affected person to indicate the paperwork that must fill out.
  • For the payment of the economic benefits, that will DIRECTLY be made BY THE INSS, students will be contacted to inform them about the paperwork to fill out.
• Benefits for RISK DURING PREGNANCY and RISK DURING BREASTFEEDING:
  • If you consider that the internships may affect your health during prgnancy or breastfeeding period, you must contact with the Social Security Section, so they can inform you about which paperwork you must fill out.
  • For the payment of the economic benefits, that will DIRECTLY be made by the MUTUAL INSURANCE UMIVALE ACTIVA, students will be contacted in order to ask for the necessary data to make this payment.

• Temporary Disability derived from Common Disease or Non-Occupational Accident.
  • The title under which the right to healthcare benefits for common illness had already been granted is maintained. Example: the school insurance beneficiaries or MUFACE will remain covered by other entities.
• Unemployment, FOGASA, Professional Training.

• It is an indispensable requirement to make the registration effective in the General Regime that every student has a Social Security Number (NAF) assigned. The issue of this number is competence of the Tresoreria General de la Seguretat Social (TGSS). The NAF does not expire. You only get it once.
• Students who do not own a NAF, must OBTAIN IT, and communicate this number with one of these two ways: 
  • By sending an e-mail to the Social Security Section: afiliacion.practicas@uv.es
  • Going to the Studies Centre so the secretary's office saves this number in the files.
• Students can use these links to consult or obtain their NAF: 
  • CONSULT NAF
  • OBTAIN NAF
• In exceptional cases, if the university lacks of the NAF date in their database, the Social Security Section can contact with the students to inform them about the documents they must provide. 

• The period for registering will be of 10 CALENDAR DAYS.

• Students who have already been registered in the General Regime can directly obtain from the Social Security website the accreditation of registration with an Employment History Report, as long as the student has a NIF or NIE. It will not be issued, by the University, a notification to the internships enterprises or entities about the student's registration. Each person must directly obtain it and facilitate it if the enterprise asks for it.
  • To obtain the Employment History Report
• Employment History Report will show the initial and ending dates of the internships
• The contribution group of the Employment History Report will appear with the value 07 (corresponding to the Administrative Assistants category) and it will be only indicated with the purpose of the calculation of the contribution bases, according to what is expected in the section 7 of the Additional Disposition 52nd of the General Law of Social Security.

Students have the obligation of clocking on and off the actual days in which they do the internships. The information on how to communicate it is available at the following guide.

You have the tutorial available

• The University will communicate to the TGSS the INTERNSHIP DAYS quarterly.
• The definitive number of CONTRIBUTED days will properly appear in the Employment History Report the following month to each of the four quarters of the year.
• In the Employment History Report, the days will appear in order to benefit. Each day of training internships will be considered 1,61 contributed days, without surpassing, under any circumstances, the number of days of the corresponding month. The parts of a day that can result in the previous coefficient will be counted as a full day. 

• The TGSS will revise periodically the contributed days, in terms of the expected exclusion causes. In case of being affected by any of them, the period of days that has been communicated to the university will not appear in the Employment History Report of the student.

• You can find here a guide to consult your contributed days as an internship student

• The interested people can register a SPECIAL AGREEMENT to incorporate in the Employment History Report periods of unpaid internships carried out prior to 01/01/2024, and other grants periods or research activities within the research training programmes. You can consult the published information by the TGSS about this topic through the following link, and a brief guide, also from the TGSS, through this link.
• Take into account that the UNIVERSITY only intervenes in this kind of procedure by issuing, if necessary, a CERTIFICATE that confirms the internships period, according to the regulation about registering for this type of agreement, with the cases included.
• It will not be subject to certification the work carried out in the studies’ framework of doctoral thesis, thesis, Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA), or Doctorate in general. Neither will be the activities carried out with a collaboration grant, EXCEPT if EXTERNAL ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPS have been specifically carried out, or if GRANTS have been obtained within the offer of a TRAINING PROGRAMME of research nature.INSTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY’S HEAD OFFICE IN TERMS OF EXCLUDED ACTIVITIES.
• In the basis of how the internships will be managed, and who will have your information, it will be necessary to request the CERTIFICATE either in your STUDIES CENTRE, in ADEIT, or in the Research and Management Service.
• In this link you have the E-MAIL ADDRESSES or WEBSITE LINKS available in order to request your CERTIFICATE. 
• The AGREEMENT is made DIRECTLY BY THE INTERESTED PERSON IN THE TGSS.  You can find, on this link, a guidance table with the information of the contribution baselines and the monthly cost of the subscription of the Special Agreement, from the 2000 year to the 2023.

Explanatory leaflet of the importass app by the Tresoreria General de la Seguretat Social 

The app can be downloaded through the following links:

Link to the APP Store

Link to Google Play

The incidents and enquiry about the app operation "Afiliaprac", that manages the data communication and the clocking on/off of the internships, will be resolved through tiquetinguv:

Students: enter to the Consultes estudiants  (Student enquiries) ticket. You must choose, in the drop-down list of the "Servei" (service) field, the Afiliació Pràctiques UV option (UV Internships registration option).

Agent/Tutor: enter to the SIUV – Gestió acadèmica ticket (SIUV- Academic management). You must choose, in the drop-down list of the "Aplicacions" (application) field, the Afiliació Pràctiques UV option (UV Internships registration option).

The enquiries about registration and contribution to the Social Security must be sent to the following e-mail address: afiliacion.practicas@uv.es