External Internships

Internships carried out in external organisations (companies, institutions) constitute a 6 ECTS course, called External Internships, which is optional and offered in the second semester of the final year of the Bachelor's Degree in Biology. The aim of these internships is to prepare students for professional practice in order to improve their integration into the world of work.

Royal Decree Law 2 2023 of 16 March added a new additional provision regulating the inclusion in the Social Security system of students undertaking external academic placements included in training programmes. In the case of curricular placements, the associated costs and Social Security procedures are the responsibility of the University of Vigo. In the case of extracurricular internships (students not enrolled in the External Internships course), these expenses are the responsibility of the company or entity where the internship is carried out.

In order to undertake external work placements, students must have completed at least 50% of the credits required for their degree (120 ECTS). Third-year students who wish to undertake curricular work placements in the summer must extend their enrolment within the established deadline to include the External Work Placement module.

The receiving entity must have signed an educational cooperation agreement with the University of Vigo. Under the new law, all agreements expired on 1 January 2024, so they are being renewed as necessary to enable students to undertake internships at a particular company/institution. This list shows the public and private institutions that have an active agreement, as well as those that have not yet renewed their agreement but have taken on students in previous years.

Students may contact organisations of interest to them and, if accepted for an internship and there is no active agreement in place, they must provide the internship coordinator with a contact person so that the university can arrange the agreement one month before the start of the internship.

For the development of the internships, it was approved in Faculty Board the External Internships Regulament of the Faculty of Biology, elaborated according to the corresponding normative of the MEC (Ministry of Education) and the University of Vigo. All the management related to the application process, allocation, execution and evaluation of the internships is regulated in this document.

Currently, external curricular placements must be formalised through the computer application developed for this purpose; therefore, it is necessary for the course coordinator to have all the necessary information, which will be provided through (Annex 0), two weeks before the planned start of the placement.

In the case of extracurricular internships, arrangements are made through the University of Vigo Foundation (Fuvi). Interested students must contact Fuvi one month before the start of the internship and will subsequently receive information from Fuvi regarding the formalities.

During the execution of external internships, the students are under the supervision of a tutor of the receiving entity (external tutor) who has to be honor graduate and a tutor from the faculty (academic tutor), both responsible of watching over for the right development of the established educational project at the beginning of the internships included in the internship’s formalization document (Annex I). This document, together with Annex II (Responsible declaration of the collaborating entity) and Annex III (Commitment of the student), must be duly signed BEFORE starting the internship period.

The evaluation of the internships includes the grade of the external tutor according to the activity developed by the student (Annex IV) and the grade of the academic tutor according to the internship’s memory presented by the student.

On the other hand, the students also have to give their opinion about the external internships (Annex VI).

Curricular External Internships – Course 2025/2026

• Curricular External Internships offer
• Provisional admission list
• Definitive admission list