Master's Degree in Marine Biology: Biodiversity and Conservation
Internships in companies, organizations and institutions are mandatory in those master's degrees that have it established in their curriculum. They involve bringing students closer to real situations, complementing the training received with the reality of the working world.
Agreements exist or are being developed with around thirty official organisations, centres and companies.
There is also the possibility of a special internship programme to be carried out over ten days of field and office work in one of the marine reserves of the Canary Islands.
Result of the work camp carried out in the 2013/2014 academic year on the island of El Hierro.
Memoir of the expedition to the island of Sao Vicente, Cape Verde, in May 2015.
Academic internships may be carried out in collaborating entities/companies, such as companies, institutions, public/private entities, public administrations or dependent organizations, etc.
For the development of external internships, the University of La Laguna maintains the necessary agreements with companies, organizations and institutions in which it is considered that students can acquire the professional skills appropriate to the degree and that respond to the professional profiles defined in the Report.
General requirements for carrying out external internships
In order to carry out external internships, students must meet the following general requirements:
- Be enrolled in the degree and in the External Internship subject of your study plan.
- Not to maintain any contractual relationship with the company, institution or entity, except in cases described in the applicable regulations.
- Any other academic requirement established by the degree in its Verification/Modification Report and in the teaching guide for the subject.
The degree has the structures and mechanisms for the organisation, management, evaluation and monitoring of external internships, which are specified in: the Academic Committee of the Master (CAM), the Coordination of External Internships, the academic tutors and External tutors. At the degree level, the Coordinator of External Internships, who is included in the Teaching Guide, is responsible for managing the development of the subject:
The Academic Committee will carry out the selection and assignment of academic tutors to the students. For his/her part, the Coordinator of External Internships of the degree, together with the academic tutors, is responsible for agreeing with the external tutors of the entities the number of students to be admitted, the temporality and the activities to be carried out by the students.
For the evaluation of this activity, the student must prepare a report on the activities carried out at the internship center, which will be assessed for the quality and correctness of expression regarding the content, as well as its presentation and defense.
List of possible centers, institutions and companies of different types for carrying out external internships where students can develop the technical-professional skills related to the master's degree.
The general university, national, autonomous and ULL regulations governing external internships in official ULL degrees are as follows:
- Royal Decree 592/2014, of July 11, regulating external academic internships for university students (Official State Gazette of 30 July 2014)
- D. 168/2008, of July 22, which regulates the procedure, requirements and evaluation criteria for the authorization of the implementation of university teachings leading to the obtaining of official Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands
- Agreement 6/CG of December 20, 2017 of the Governing Council of the University of La Laguna approving the Regulations on External Internships of the University of La Laguna.
- Regulations for external tutors for internships from the University of La Laguna (BOC, October 19, 2011).
