Information for companies and institutions

• The student cannot have any employment relationship with the institution where the internship takes place.
• The internships must be carried out within the academic period to which the enrollment entitles, which includes from mid-September to mid-September of the following year.
• Extracurricular internships can be conceived as a “bag” of a total of 1,500 hours that students, once they have obtained 120 credits of their degree, can begin to carry out throughout their university life. The distribution of these hours of non-curricular practices is not previously established. Once the 1,500 hous were exhausted, students could no longer do more, even if they were still enrolled in more courses.
• The student can carry out a maximum of 5 hours of practice per day (equivalent to 25 hours per week), without being able to interfere with the class schedule. This day can be extended to 8 hours a day in non-teaching periods.
• It is required that a professional from the institution supervises and supervises the student's stay in practice.
• At the time of signing the agreement, the entity must pay the Faculty of Philology and Communication the cost of managing the training project for each of the students accepted for internships (140 euros + VAT), for which an invoice can be requested by contacting with the Administration of Philology and Communication (fil-afersgenerals@ub.edu).
• The student must be registered and discharged from the Social Security by the entity, which must settle the contributions before the Treasury of the Social Security, according to current legislation.
• The student's activity in the company or institution is carried out, both for curricular and non-curricular external internships, under the coverage of the compulsory school insurance subscribed as a student of the University of Barcelona. If the student is over 28 years old, and does not have this compulsory insurance, he must have his own insurance policy subscribed.
• Once the internship period has ended, the student can request from the institution a certificate of completion of the internship that will serve as a reference letter for future jobs.

Whether the company or institution already has a selected student or if it does not yet have candidates to carry out the internship, the entity's data must be recorded in the GIPE (if this has not been done previously) and they must enter the details of the offer.

If the institution already has a selected student, the offer will not be made public. The entity may request the agreement, using the corresponding GIPE form.

The tasks that the student will carry out must be linked to the professional skills relating to the philological field.

The offer must include an established minimum remuneration that the student will receive in the form of a scholarship or study aid.

Entities can communicate their offer of non-curricular external internship places at any time.

To apply for internships at the Faculty of Philology and Communication, it is necessary to be registered in GIPE, the internship management platform of the University of Barcelona, ​​and to send one or more offers, depending on the academic profile and the number of students in internships you want to host. You can access the GIPE through this link. If your organization is already registered, enter directly with your user code and password. If not, you will need to register your entity's details and, once the registration is confirmed, you will need to return to the authentication page to access the GIPE and submit your offer.

Once the access data has been entered, the faculty must be selected (in this case, "Faculty of Philology and Communication"), so that the offer will be visible exclusively to students of the Faculty of Philology and Communication (UB ).

The offer can then be submitted to the call for "External non-curricular internships" for the corresponding academic year, which will be open.

The publication of the offer in the GIPE, which is a free service, will take effect once it has been validated by the Internship Office of the Faculty of Philology and Communication.

The entities must bear in mind that, although the student receives financial aid for carrying out the non-curricular practices, the tasks that the student will carry out in the entity must provide him with theoretical and practical knowledge and a profit for to your training.

For any query, you can contact the area responsible for internships (fil-practiques@ub.edu).

So that the offer is published, the entity will be able to consult the GIPE, by accessing the offer, the curriculum of the candidates suitable for the requested profile.

The entity can contact preselected students to conduct an interview. Once the student has been selected by the institution, it must apply for the agreement, using the corresponding GIPE form.

The Internship Office will process an educational cooperation agreement with the entity that will host the student. This agreement is limited to the internships carried out by the student who is the subject of the training project or individual internship program that accompanies it and will have the duration stipulated in the training project. The Internship Office will also process the training project of the student selected by the institution.

The student can join the company or institution where he will do the internship once he has correctly completed and signed all the documentation associated with the agreement. This documentation must include proof of enrollment in the student's Social Security and payment of management expenses by the institution, which must send them to the Faculty's Internship Office of Philology and Communication (fil-practiques@ub.edu).

In addition to the tutelage of the institution's professional, the student will have the supervision of a professor from the Faculty of Philology and Communication.

If the entity is interested in deactivating the publication of the internship offer, it must notify the Internship Office of the Faculty of Philology and Communication (fil-practiques@ub.edu), or it can do through the GIPE.

Regulation for external academic internships for UB students

Educational cooperation agreement models

To request an agreement, entities must contact the International Office.