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Practicum

Code: 103241
Credits: 12

2026/2027

Degree programme	Type	Course
Food Science and Technology	OB	4

Contact lecturer

Name :: Francesc Accensi Alemany
Email :: francesc.accensi@uab.cat

Teaching staff

: Josep Yuste Puigvert

Group languages

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

Prerequisites

To have done 1st year and 120 ECTS.
To be registered and have paid the insurance.
No relation with the entity in terms of work and family.
Compatibility with the rest of courses of the degree.

Objectives

Pràcticum, a 12-ECTS compulsory course, is done in an entity, private or public, national or international, to complement the university training of the student and to bring him/her near to the professional sector where he/she will be in the future. It should allow him/her:

to know appropriate work methodologies;
to develop tehcnical, methodological and personal competencies;
to obtain experience for making easier his/her arrival at the professional sector;
to make innovation, creativity and enterprising values stronger.

Learning outcomes

Analyse, summarise, resolve problems and make professional decisions.
Communicate effectively with both professional and non-professional audiences, orally and in writing, in the first language and/or in English.
Work individually or in unidisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams and in international contexts.
Develop individual learning strategies and planning and organisation skills.
Adopt an ethical stance and attach importance to quality in work.
Show sensitivity to environmental, sanitary and social issues.
Argue in favour of the conclusions presented.
Design and justify future experiments.
Organise experimental work according to scientific and pragmatic criteria.
Specify how the work done fits into the company as a whole.
Collaborate with other team members in a disciplined way.
Integrate findings into the main project framework.

Tasks done by the student depend on the entity and must be related to food science and technology.

Learning activities and methodology

Title	Hours	ECTS	Learning outcomes
Writing of a report	6	0.24	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
Study and bibliography search	3	0.12	3, 4
Activities at the entity	290	11.6	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11
Tutorials	1	0.04	2, 12

The person in charge of the Practicum will be the Vice Dean of Students and extra-optional internships and will be assisted by a Coordinator
The student has a university supervisor and an entity supervisor. The entity supervisor, before the beginning of Practicum, defines the project, activities and competencies of the student in accordance with the Coordinator.
The student decides, together with the entity, the beginning and finishing dates and the schedule.
Every 15 days, he/she should do a tutorial (office, telephone, e-mail) with the university supervisor.
290 hours are an intensive Practicum of 7-8 weeks and 40 h/week. Pràcticum can be non-intensive.
It can be done during three periods: summer between 3rd and 4th year, first semester of 4th year and second semester of 4th year (until September if necessary).
Information about Pràcticum is at the website of the school and Moodle.

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
Evaluation of the entity supervisor	60 %	0	0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11
Evaluation of the university supervisor: tutorials and report	40 %	0	0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12

Indicators for evaluation (university supervisor):

tutorial fulfillment;
appropriate contents in the report;
writing skill;
summary skill;
critical valuation skill.

Evaluation:

When the student has finished or is almost finishing the Pràcticum, he/she will e-mail the report to his/her university supervisor (with the Coordinator in cc). This should be done within 15 days from the finishing date, or 7 days before transcript closing.
The entity supervisor will e-mail the evaluation to the university supervisor (with the Coordinator in cc).
The university supervisor will evaluate the report by using the evaluation report document and then e-mail it to the Coordinator.
Final evaluation is 60 % grade from entity supervisor + 40 % grade from university supervisor.

If the student does not complete the practices in the established period, the subject will be evaluated as Non-evaluable.

This subject/module does not include single evaluation.

Bibliography

It corresponds to the tasks of the student, and that necessary to write the report.

Software