About Internship
Introduction
Internship is an important educational activity of the Department’s curriculum, because it enriches the theoretical knowledge of students with valuable professional experience and allows them to get acquainted with a real working environment.
The Internship is mainly funded by the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning” , which is one of the Operational Programmes of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). However, it can be carried out with funding from the Internship provider (private or public institution), but also in institutions outside Greece through the Erasmus+ European or International Mobility Programme.
Useful Terms
Internship. It is a compulsory Special Background Course of the 8th semester for the direction of Public Health and compulsory optional for the direction of Community Health. There are no re-examinations for this course. If the student is assessed with a non-promotional grade, he/she will have to choose two elective courses in the following semester.
Academic Internship Supervisor. The Academic Supervisor is a faculty member who is primarily responsible for:
- maintaining and updating the list of proposed institutions,
- communicating with the institutions during the application process; and
- coordinating the grading of the internship course.
Evaluation Committee. It is composed of permanent members of the Department’s teaching staff with autonomous or non-autonomous educational work who evaluate the competence of the students who want to take the Practical Training course.
Internship Supervisors UNIWA. Supervisors are faculty members who have autonomous teaching responsibilities. They supervise one or more students and their supervision is part of their teaching work.
Internship Host Organisation (IPO): Any private or public organisation that can employ students for an internship can act as an IPO. Their suitability is checked by the Traineeship Coordinator(s).
Internship Supervisor of the Host Organisation (HORP). The function of HORP Supervisor can be assumed by any University or TEI graduate scientist who supervises the Internship work of the students of the HORP or who is legally licensed.
Conditions for the internship
- have successfully completed 50% of the courses (at least 20 out of 40) required for the degree
- Be enrolled in the 8th semester and each subsequent semester
- Have registered the internship course in the Student Registry
