Work placements are educational activities completed by students in any public or private, national or foreign institution, with the aim of applying and adding to the learning acquired in the master’s degree and allowing students to experience the reality in the professional field in which they will work and to develop skills that may facilitate their incorporation into the job market.

The 9 ECTS correspond to 200 hours of on-site practical experience with the company, entity or research group, and 25 hours of tutorials (with the tutor of the company and the academic tutor, who is usually the coordinator of the master) and the writing of the report.

The TFM placement is paid under conditions that are negotiated individually with each company, entity or research group, except where the student’s grant does not allow for this, or where the student voluntarily renounces remuneration in the interest of carrying out the TFM in an entity that cannot pay them.

The selection procedure for the entities that offer internships and candidates starts in the first semester.Companies and research groups post vacancies on the faculty's placement platform, although it is often students themselves who search for the company or research group at which to complete the placement.The candidate is selected by the entity itself (company or research group) once it has assessed the student’s CV and given them the corresponding interview.Once they reach an agreement, the corresponding contract is created which has to be signed by the company, the student and the UdG’s Faculty of Sciences.

The regulations in force can be found in the Faculty of Science Regulations for external academic placements in master’s degree studies, as approved by Government Commission session 1/2022 of the UdG’s Faculty of Science on 31/03/2022.

Calendar

The student has to post their TFM on the placement web platform before the deadline established by the coordinator of the master and the faculty. The submission date varies according to the enrolment group for the subject.

• GROUP J - the evaluation is in June
• GROUP S - the evaluation is in September

ATTENTION: Changing the assessment call has to be conducted online (through report procedures) before June. 

Report's suggested format

The report must be at least 5 pages long and should be no more than 10 pages in length (including any appendices) and should include:

• Introduction to the subject of the placement carried out, description of the company/institution (type of activity, organisation, work dynamics, stakeholders involved, and so on)
• List of the activities carried out (methods, methodology, instrumentation, campaign design, analysis protocols, learned and practised techniques, and so on), usefulness of each of the techniques.
• Where possible, some examples of result gathering (laboratory files, field notes, placement diary) and the results can be added.
• Critical reflection on the learning and knowledge acquired during the placement and how the subjects of the master have contributed to this.
• - Research of information (data base, framework directives...),bibliography.

Evaluation

A numerical score will be given (between 1 and 10) and the following will be assessed:

• (50%) Company tutor’s report where the student’s adaptation (work habits) and the work carried out will be qualitatively appraised, depending on the necessary knowledge and the difficulties found.
• 50% Academic tutor's report  (PAT tutor for work placements) - this will involve an assessment of the report and a final assessment of the work placement and the skills acquired by the student during their stay at the company, based on the report submitted.

Bear in mind too that:

• Students must remind their respective company and UdG academic tutors to assess their placements through the placement web platform.
• To enable the UdG academic tutor to assess the work placement, the report must be previously uploaded onto the platform and the company tutor must have made their assessment of the work placement on the platform.

Registration of a placement

Placement offers at companies must be published by the institutions, whether companies or research groups.The procedure for registering a vacancy on the faculty's placement platform is very simple.You can find all necessary details here.

Bear in mind there are three periods for offering places during the academic year, with the call in the second semester the most suitable time to inform students.Therefore, if you want to submit an offer, we recommend you do so between November and December (even though the call will be open until April), as this way you will have more time to inform students.Placements can be carried out any time between December and August (deadline: 31 August).