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Work Placement

Code: 100795
Credits: 12
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Biology OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Ramon Perez Obiol
Email :
ramon.perez@uab.cat

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

To apply for the program, you are required to have passed the degree first year and, at least, 120 credits out of 180 credits in the first three years. In addition, you must be enrolled at the time when you start the internship and have paid the fees for the accident and civil liability insurance, as informed in the tax regulations.

Objectives

The objectives of the course are:

. To promote the integration of the student in the corporate world or in a research group, either in a public or private institution.

. To know and to apply biological techniques that are typically used in a industrial setting or in specific research projects.

. To prepare a report on the practice internship in an autonomous manner.

Learning outcomes

  1. Be able to analyse and synthesise.
  2. Work in teams.
  3. Integrate knowledge obtained on the degree course into a professional environment.
  4. Apply statistical and computer resources to the interpretation of data.
  5. Be able to organise and plan.
  6. Develop a sensibility towards environmental issues.
  7. Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  8. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  9. Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  10. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  11. Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  12. Analyse a situation and identify its points for improvement.
  13. Propose new methods or well-founded alternative solutions.
  14. Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
  15. Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and environmental benefits.
  16. Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  17. Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.

Contents

The contents of this course is variable, depending on the specific institution in which the student internship takes place.

However, in all cases, the contents of the proposed activity should keep a close relationship with Biology, be it in a company or in a research group.

Two kinds of positions exist:

Modality A: Internal positions UAB

Modality B: External positions

Students in Modality A should have an academic tutor.

Those in modality B should be tutored by a member of the course teaching staff and by an external tutor.


 

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
stay of practices 280 11.2 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
report elaboration 20 0.8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

The subject can be taken in three periods (summer, first and second semester). The duration of each period will be published every academic year on the website of the Faculty of Biosciences. The student will find all the information related to this subject and how the aplication should be formalized in The Faculty web page entitled \"Practices in Entities\" http://www.uab.cat/web/informacio-academica/grau-biology-1323762043884.html. The person responsible for the subject will schedule a specific informational session every academic year

 

 

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Final report 40% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Final report issued by the Academic Tutor 60% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

The final report will be delivered electronically to the person in charge of the subject, no later than 15 days after the end of the stay. On the website of the Faculty \"https://www.uab.cat/doc/Criteris-pract-graus\" will find the instructions for the elaboration of final report. In the external placement report, students must transparently declare any use of artificial intelligence tools, indicating in which sections they were used and for what purpose.


Bibliography

The Bibliography will be variable and will refer to the specific task that each student will develop during his practices

Software

It will depend on each tutor

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(PEXT) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum 1 Catalan Undefined morning-mixed
(PEXTintern) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum (amb supervisió interna) 99 Catalan Undefined morning-mixed