Industrial Practices

In the case of undergraduate degrees, it is essential for students to have completed at least half of the credits required for their program (120 credits) in order to participate in an educational cooperation agreement.

Maximum number of hours. In a single academic year a student, whether in an undergraduate or master’s program, may complete a maximum of 900 hours of internship hours.

It is also established that the maximum number of internship hours throughout the studies will be:

• Bachelor's degree (GEI i GIA): maximum of 1.800 hours
• Master's programs of 60 ECTS (MCYBERS): maximum of 600 hours.
• Master's programs of 90 ECTS (MEI and MAI): maximum of 900 hours.
• Màsters de 120 ECTS (MIRI i MDS): màxim de 1.200 hores.

The academic year for agreements starts on 16th of September until 15th of September the following year.

The amount that students must receive may not be less than (*):

10 €/hour gross for undergraduate students
11 €/hour gross for master's students

For the student, this is income earned from work for third parties and, as such, is subject to the withholdings set out in the Personal Income Tax (IRPF) regulations.

The agreements will be invoiced by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya at a rate of 15.7% for management fees. Furthermore, the applicable VAT will be 21%.

Intellectual property

Companies are required to include students with whom they have a formalized agreement in the social Security system. More information

• Agreement
• Work plan

Notice about signing documents:

The agreement must be signed electronically.

The gross amount to be paid may not be below (*):

10€ per hour for Degree students

11€ per hour for Master students

(*) In agreements with a start date from January 1, 2023.

Faculty won’t establish agreements with companies whose invoices are not paid. 

The procedures for the agreement must begin 15 days before the start date of the practices.

See the New management practices in company section of the FIB website.(in Spanish)

Companies should take into account the students of GEI, GIA, MAI, MEI and MIRI can choose between a curricular internship (implies a Final Project Degree or a Final Master Thesis, and a recognition of credits) or extracurricular.

• Extracurricular internship (Degree and Masters)

• Curricular Internship (Degree)

They are included in the curriculum of Informatics Engineering Degree as an optative area and became part of academic activities that involve:

• A Degree Final Project development modality B with an Educational Cooperation Agreement
• The recognition of 12 optative credits

The minimum loan of the internship subject and the Degree Final Project is 735 hours.

How it works

• When an agreement starts, the Degree Final Project modality B needs to be registered (The Degree Final Project will be registered if the student has passed all compulsory subjects and a minimum of three compulsory subjects of the specialisation).
• The center will do a pre-register (12 optative ECTS). The official registration of the subject is made simultaneously with the Degree Final Project registration.

The Faculty of Informatics reserves the right to participate in an agreement, as well as an existing agreement renewals, when the academic performance of the student is not adjusted to the minimum established: an academic parameter (it is known as the quoficient between credits students has passed and credits students has registered) superior to 0,50.

Curricular Internship (Masters)

• A Final Thesis Project development modality B with an Educational Cooperation Agreement
• The recognition of optative credits

Students of degree

• In the first date of the agreement, student must have passed 50% of credits on the course they are studying.
• Students must have subjects registered or either the Final Project.

Students of Master

• In the first date of the agreement, student must have passed 15 credits on the master.
• Students must have subjects registered or either the Final Tesis.

Notice about signing documents:

The student will sign the agreement electronically through the UPC signatory system.

The gross amount to be paid may not be below (*):

10€ per hour for Degree students

11€ per hour for Master students

(*) In agreements with a start date from January 1, 2023.

In the case of academic internships at the UPC, the economic regime will be that established in UPC the Regulations:

5 hours / week: 175 euros/month

10 hours / week: 350 euros/month

15 hours / week: 525 euros/month

20 hours / week: 700 euros/month

In the case of academic internships at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), the amount that the student will receive is:

 10 € / hour gross for Degree students

 11 € / hour gross for Master students

The Faculty does not accept internships when the tasks involved are different from the functions of an Informatics Engineer.

At the end of the internship:

Once the internship has finished, the company tutor and the student must fill in a final report through the Racó.

These documents are essential for the evaluation of the internship.

The Final Project registration must be done in the previous quarter to the Final Project inscription.
The final result from an internship with a favourable evaluation, will be the obtained in the Final Project. In the case of an unfavourable obtained result or not to have the Final Project registered in the subsequent quarter of the initial internship, the result will be a failure.

Remind you the Final Project in B modality is defended in the first tribunal meeting after the finalization of agreement in the business company which has done.