Internship in Professional Context

Code: ZOO12376L

12 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/312 hours

Scientific Area: Animal Science

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This module places the student in the context of a non-academic organisation to connect the knowledge acquired throughout the study plan with the specific economic activity of a given entity.

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

8. Trabalho digno e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

12. Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

14. Proteger a vida marinha - Conservação e uso sustentável dos oceanos, dos mares, e dos recursos marinhos para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

15. Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

Objectives: To place students in a real enterprise context, so that he/she can relate acquired knowledge
with specific aspects of a given enterprise. Students are required to identify some of the major features of
the company (resources, productive processes, outcome/product quality, etc.) with a view to proposing
possible alternatives likely to improve a given observed situation.
Skills: Students shall understand the functional dynamics of the host company, developing a reasonable
ability to think critically about the way it operates. Students are also expected to acquire considerable
know-how in several segments of the company, as well as to develop a stronger enterprising character.

Course contents will be student-specific, as a function of his/her vocational interests and type/activities of
the host company.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies:
Methodologies for attending students during their training period will depend of the type of training and
host entity.

Assessment

This course is assessed through a 280-hour in-person internship in a business context and the writing of a report on the activities performed during it. Both parts are mandatory for evaluation; students cannot complete only one of them.
The evaluation is based on information from the external evaluator (at the institution where the student is interning) and is worth 40% of the final grade, as well as the evaluation of the internal advisor, who is part of the University of Évora, which is worth 60%.
Please note that students can only be evaluated if they complete at least 90% of the 280 hours in a business context. Failure to do so will result in the student not being evaluated externally and will not be approved for the course. The same applies if the student fails to write the final report.

Teaching Staff

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