Work placements

The students will do work placements in a company or agency, and will develop a report of it.

The subject consists of 7 ECTS, with a 90% of face-to-face sessions (155 work hours in the company and 2.5 of tutoring for the preparation of the report).

Work placements are managed by the ADEIT service of the UV, which makes the organization always under the supervision of the Academic Coordinating Commission. It offers students a list of companies in the chemical field and related, selected by the Academic Coordinating Commission and the characteristics indicated by each. Students make the choice according to their interests.

The University of Valencia has a model agreement for educational cooperation internships with companies and organizations which participate each academic year in the Master and also a specific agreement for each of the students who are going to do their internship.

The Academic Coordinating Commission of the Master in Experimental Techniques in Chemistry, in collaboration with ADEIT, selected from the general list of companies and / or entities related to the chemical industry collaborating in business practices, those considered most suitable for the formation of Masters students, who are those who have laboratories where experimental techniques are used, and in which, therefore, students can put their knowledge into practice by applying them to the real problems of the company or agency.

Companies and organizations are located in the geographical environment of the University of Valencia, mainly in Valencia city and surroundings. Also available in other towns in the region, the rest of the Spanish state and to a lesser extent in other countries, mainly from the European Union.

All companies and associates have acquired the following commitments that will be detailed in the specific arrangements for each of the students to do their internship:

Making available to students to a professional who acts as a tutor, directing and guiding their activities during their stay and work with the college tutor in the student learning process.
It is established, by mutual agreement, the program of activities to be performed by students, and that will suit the objectives and competencies to be achieved by students.
Companies and organizations will have the resources and services enough to accomplish their work placements.

The list of places available for the realization of work placementss of each academic year, is published on this website.

The places offered each academic year and the choice by students is done in the month of January of each academic year.

Students have two tutors:

Tutor in the Company, which will be assigned by the Company among qualified certificated staff.
Tutor Prof. at University (PDI of the Master, each student will have as tutor the same Tutor Prof. Master's Thesis and at the same time to act as Tutor Master's student)

The period of completion of the internship is between January and June of each academic year. Specific dates are set by agreement between each student and Tutor Company where going to perform the work placements.

The evaluation system of the work done by students in the internships is based on the evaluation by a Tribunal appointed for this purpose in each academic year.

The aspects to be assessed are the Company Tutor report on the activities undertaken by the student and the report submitted and evaluated by Prof. Tutor.

In order to be evaluated, students must deposit their External Internship report by email to manuel.delcasar@uv.es and francesc.a.esteve@uv.es, before the date indicated in the Activities Calendar.

Must include:

- Report of the External Internships in PDF format, with the stamp and/or the approval and the signature of the Tutor in the Company on the first page.

The Tutor Professor of the University must send by email to manuel.delcasar@uv.es and francesc.a.esteve@uv.es, before the date indicated in the Calendar of Activities.

- Evaluation form completed by the Tutor of the company by email. Rating scale from 1 to 10.
- Evaluation form completed by the Academic Tutor(s) of the University. Scoring scale from 0 to 10.

The length and format of the report must be:

Length: 30 pages maximum, including all material (text, references, tables, figures, etc..)
Format:
- Font: Times New Roman.
- Size: 12.
- Spacing: normal.
- Margins: the four will be 3 cm.

Means for evaluating the quality of the Internships

Prof. Tutor at the University receives direct student information, allowing him/her to know if they are meeting the expectation under the agreement with the company, to act and resolve any difficulties, conflict, etc.. In addition, at the end of each work placements the student fills out a form which survey him about the performance of the work placements.

This allows the Academic Coordinating Commission conduct further study of the quality offered by partner companies of interest to the organization of the next course. The review conducted annually by the Academic Coordinating Committee, the list of companies allows both the possibility of extending the previous course offering if deemed appropriate, and to eliminate some company if students and tutor of the Master made a negative report of the reception of students in the company and / or the performance that provides for student training.

In addition, the UV has included Assessment Program in Business Internship within the Internal Quality Assurance System of the UV.