Data Science Internships

UNIPD events for finding an internship and thesis projects:

- Every year, the University of Padua organizes events, uniting academia with industry in the form of a career fair. The event is called Universita Aperta Career Day and usually is held in person.

- Twice a year (approximately at the beginning of winter and summer semesters), you can hear from over a hundred companies from Italy and abroad. In addition, you can present yourself, and how your skills make you a decent candidate for the company

- When attending the Universita Aperta Career Day event, consider printing several copies of your CV, since you can leave them to the recruiters of the companies you like. This is the ultimate chance to start your career after the university, or find an internship or thesis project!

- In addition, every year Universita Aperta organizes a Business Game for Data Scientists event. This is a short solo hackathon.  Before participating in the hackathon, you must pick several companies for a 5-minute interview. After the hackathon results announcement, you will have a series of interviews with the companies you selected. If your position is decent on the leaderboard, you will likely get a job at the company you like!

All details can be found in the following links:
Website of Universita Aperta
Career day website
Business game hackathon

A guide on how to start an internship:

1. Successfully complete the online safety course (general training) available at:
    elearning.unipd.it/formazione/course/index.php?categoryid=39

2. Find a receiving organization tutor (your supervisor in the hosting institution) and an academic supervisor (your supervisor at the university). Note that you need both tutor and a supervisor for accomplishing the internship

3. Complete a training project through the website https://careers.unipd.it/en

4. Let both tutor and supervisor electronically sign the training project 

5. Send the electronically signed training project to stage@unipd.it

A guide on how to register your internship credits:

At the end of the internship, to have your 15 ECTS credits recorded, it is necessary to send two further simple documents to stage@unipd.it:

1. A short final report of the work carried out and any critical issues encountered (an example is attached below).

2. An internship completion certificate, electronically signed by the receiving organization tutor (an example is attached below)

Details are available in the files attached below.

For any query please contact stage@unipd.it and/or the rector's delegate to internships tomaso.erseghe@unipd.it