• Presential external placements have been suspended on 16 March and can continue only if the enterprise is able to give the students the option of "teleplacement".
• Placements in public or private health registered centres have been suspended sine die according to a decree from 12 March 2020 from the Ministry for Public Health of the Valencian government, as well as placements in judicial bodies, according to the agreement from 12 March 2020 of the Higher Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.
• The coordinator of the placements of each degree must communicate with the academic and enterprise supervisors and classify each external placement into the following situations:
  • Interrupted placement: external placement that is paralysed without the possibility of continuing afterwards. In this case, the hours worked will be counted until the interruption date.
  • Paralysed placement: external placement momentarily halted with the possibility of continuing when the COVID-19 situation allows. If it could not eventually continue, it will be considered as interrupted placement (3.a) on the deadline established by the Placements Committee of each Degree.
  • Teleplacement: external placement developed remotely in a non-presential way in the enterprise or entity. It must be guaranteed that each student is remotely supervised by both tutors. Teleplacement will be supported where possible.
  • Cancelled placement: external placement that has not started even if it has been formalised by placement agreement.
• In any case, the Centre's Placements Committee will provide alternative solutions in order to guarantee the development, supervision and numerical evaluation of the placements, taking into account the degree of completion and the competences to develop with these placements for each degree, based on the following measures:
  • In all degrees, with the appropriate proceedings in the records, it will be guaranteed the evaluation of the students that finish the placements after the closure date of the records.
  • The placements coordinator of each degree will assess together with the supervisors and the students if it is possible to continue the paralysed placement, in the case of returning to normality.
  • For all degrees, in order to consider the interrupted external placements as concluded, it will be necessary to have presentially worked the 50% of hours, allowing, if necessary, the rest of hours to be completed with any kind of additional non-presential activity or activities. The Coordinator of the degree, the Coordinator of external placements and the Placements Committee of the Centre may ask the students to add complementary tasks, activities or essays to the Report that they must present. 
  • In all degree programmes, when the placements did not reach the 50% of the worked hours and the interruption is extended in a way that it is not possible to complete them during the academic year, the Coordinator of the degree, the Coordinator of external placements and the Placements Committee of the Centre will establish equivalent competency activities, such as: i) essays directed by supervisors; ii) training programmes from the Aula Virtual structured in seminars, conferences, workshops or other tools, with the participation of professional of enterprises/institutions. The Coordinator of the degree, the Coordinator of external placements and the Placements Committee of the Centre will ask the students to add complementary tasks, activities or essays to the Report that they must present. 
  • In all degree programmes, the academic acknowledgement of previous professional experience or extra-curricular placements may be considered as a substitution measure for placements. In this case, the student must provide the Placements Committee of the Centre with the required documents.
  • In the case of Master's degrees, the Director will inform the Placements Coordinator of the Centre about the situation of the already started placements and the decisions taken in this regard that will be assessed and countersigned by the Placements Committee. The possibility, if possible, of extending the rest of the practical training (or at least the 50% limit set) up to the end of the academic year may also be assessed.
  • In all degree programmes, substantial changes will be reflected in the Course Guides.
• Regarding paid placements, which consequently involve the registration in the Social Security, it should be mentioned that the contributions for the month of March have already been paid and therefore the student body is covered until 31 March. Over the next few days, the Ministry will establish the procedures for next months.

Update date: 09/04/20 12:58:31

• The placement coordinator from each study degree together with the academic tutors, company supervisors, and students will evaluate whether it is possible to do the internship remotely.
• The work placements in the registered public or private health centres are suspended in line with the decree of 12 March 2020 by the Department of Public Health of the Valencian government (Generalitat Valenciana). The same concerns the placements in legal bodies according to the decree of 12 March 2020 by the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.
• The placement coordinator from each study degree together with the supervisors and students will evaluate whether it is possible to do an internship on-site in case the sanitary crisis is over.
•  In any case, the External Placement Committee shall find alternative solutions to ensure the procedures, supervision, and evaluation of internship that have not started yet. The Committee shall bear in mind the number of ECTS credits and the skills to be acquired during external work placements according to the following measures:
  • All the students of all degrees shall be evaluated with due diligence even if they finish their internship after the corresponding acts have been issued.
  • In all degree programmes, if the period of activity suspension is extended and, thus, impede the internships within an academic year, the degree coordinator, the external placement Coordinator, and the External Placement Committee shall establish the activities equivalent to internships; for example, i) tutor assigned works; ii) training programmes in the Virtual Classroom organised as seminars, conferences, workshops, or other tools that include the participation of professionals from companies/institutions. A final report which is to be presented at the end of the placement shall reflect the tasks, activities, or complementary works given to a student.
  • It is possible to substitute the work placement with the previous professional experience or a prior extra-curricular work placement. In this case, the student shall accredit their prior experience before the External Placement Committee providing the required documents.
  • In certain justified cases, the students who cannot proceed with their internship remotely may fill out a favourable report of the External Placement Committee and the Office of the Vice-Principal for Employment and Training Services and request that the enrolment in this course to be transferred to the next academic year 2020/2021 without paying extra fees.
  • In case of a Master’s degree, the administration shall inform the Coordinator of the Placement that a student has not started the internship and whether some decisions have been taken regarding the internship evaluation and accreditation by the External Placement Committee. It should be considered whether a Master student has the possibility to extend the internship (or at least 50% of it) until the end of the academic year.
  • In all degree programmes, substantial changes shall be introduced in Teaching Guides.

Update date: 09/04/20 01:01:45

• The measures mentioned before should be taken. In addition, all conditions dictated by the authorities of the host country should be taken into account.
• Supervisor/s must communicate with the student/s and the enterprise or entity supervisor/s in order to assess the possibility of continuing the placement, relying on the instructions given by the host entity and the authorities of the country.
• Students may continue the placements if the situation of the area allows that, or if it allows to adopt teleplacement measures. It is recommended that students maintain permanent contact with their academic supervisors and strictly follow the instructions of the local authorities (as well as contacting the Spanish Embassy in the country, in case they are not habitually residents in the country).
• International placements starting on 16 March or after this date will not be authorised.

Update date: 09/04/20 12:31:36

The teaching staff assigned to tutor a TFG or TFM will continue to carry out the tasks of guidance and monitoring of the work, and when the work is ready to be submitted, they will issue the corresponding report of the tutored work electronically.

The student will make the deposit of the TFG or TFM by the usual procedure, through the Electronic Headquarters of the Universitat de València (through Entreu) and will process by this way the request of defence and evaluation of the work, issuing an electronic version of the final work.

The defence of the TFG or TFM will be made on the date fixed by each degree or master's degree for each call, following the following indications:

• In those degrees where public defence before an evaluation panel is foreseen, this will always be done in a non-attendance way.
• The student will provide, with the advance notice determined by the panel, the material that each degree has previously indicated as suitable for monitoring the defence of the work presented (summary, transparencies, presentation on the air, etc.).
• If the Final Degree Project Committee, or the CCA (Academic Committee) in the case of master's degrees, considers it necessary to complement the material submitted for the defence with a video conference, the panel will inform each person of the day and time and the format in which the conference will be held, which will be limited, for all purposes, to the submission of a few questions per panel of the panel and/or a brief discussion with the student.
• Priority will be given to using the Universitat de València's video-conference platforms, which guarantee connections for all those involved in defence and adequate security: Blackboard Collaborate or Teams.
• The qualification of TFG and TFM, and the communication of the grade to the student, will be done in the usual way and respecting the LOPD.

Update date: 14/05/20 11:20:16

Generally, it will be facilitated that the student body can carry out and defend the TFG and TFM within the established deadlines and always within the calls and the academic calendar set for the 2019-2020 academic year.

In those cases, in which the TFG or TFM require experimental data, the work will be done with the data that the student had at the time the alarm situation was caused.

If the student does not have his own data, or they are not enough to be able to make the presentation and discussion of the results and conclusions required by the TFG or TFM, the tutor will be able to provide the student with the necessary data because he can make the proposed work. In this case, it will be necessary to delimit and sign in a document the authorship or, if applicable, co-authorship of the work, delimiting it and clarifying it according to the typologies foreseen in article 7 of the Revised Text of the Law on Intellectual Property.

Only in cases where it was impossible to adequately perform the TFG or TFM assigned, and it is also impossible to reconsider it, one of the following alternatives may be arbitrated:

• Extend the deadline for the submission and defence of the TFG and TFM because sufficient data are available to carry out the work, in an extended time frame within the 2019-20 academic year and no later than October 16, 2020.
• To transfer the student's TFG or TFM registration to the following academic year 2020-21, with no cost for this course.

In these cases, the Final Degree Project Committee, or the CCA (Academic Committee) in the case of master's degrees, will have to justify the impossibility of completing the TFG or TFM within the previously established deadlines, for which it may require a brief report from the tutor of the work.

The choice of one or the other of these alternatives will be made considering the opinion of the student and the tutor.

When the application of this instruction to a degree is considered necessary to adapt and/or modify the performance, defence and/or assessment criteria set out in the Verification Report, an addendum to the TFG or TFM course guide will be made. This addendum will directly modify these aspects for this exceptional and temporary situation.

Likewise, students who may be affected by any decision or modification will be adequately informed sufficiently in advance.

Date of update: 28 April 2020

Update date: 14/05/20 11:21:54