Answer: Internships are compulsory.

  Answer: There are 2(two) internships.

 Answer: Each internship is 20(twenty) working days.

  Answer: Students who register on the portal and send an e-mail to the Department Internship Commission for Appendix-1A approval are added to the Internship Ninova class.

  Answer:
a) Before the internship
i. Internship applications are submitted fifteen (15) days at the latest before the internship starts.
The Student Internship Contract and Internship Application Form (Appendix-1A) which are produced during the application are approved by all authorities and are sent by the student six (6) days before the internship starts at the latest. It is uploaded to the system via https://portal.itu.edu.tr web address.
For Appendix-1A approval, students should contact with faculty member Dr. Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün aysunaygun@itu.edu.tr email adress.
Internships of students who do not receive the necessary approvals for Appendix-1A and contract documents before the start of the internship are not accepted.
ii. Occupational safety training must be completed online or formally from the Workplace Health and Safety Unit.
iii. After approving the relevant documents, The Central Internship Unit issues the SGK employment statement and sends it to the student and the company electronically from the registered contact information.
b) During the internship
i. The Internship Start Form (Appendix-2) must be filled in, approved by the company and uploaded to the internship module by the student through the portal within the first 5 days of the internship.
c) After the internship
i. Internship Completion Certificate (Appendix-3) must be signed by the company within 5 days after the end of the internship and must be uploaded to the internship module by the student through the portal.
ii. Original signed copies of the student agreement, Internship Application Form (Appendix-1A), Internship Work Schedule, Internship Start Form (Appendix-2) and Internship Ending Document (Appendix-3) must be uploaded to the homeworks tab of the internship class registered in the ninova system, together with the internship report.

  Answer: It is sufficient to upload the internship report with all the attachments to the ninova system as a merged PDF file.

 Answer: According to the statement disclosed by the ITU Rectorate, “Due to the end of the Pandemic Period, the compulsory internships to be held after the summer of 2022 must be done in-person, not online as during the Pandemic. However, when the company where the student will do the internship works remotely or hybrid and the nature of the work to be carried out during the internship is suitable for online work (excluding internships in the field or production facilities), online internships will also be accepted with the approval of the department internship commissions. Therefore, students are required to send an e-mail explaining the content and details of the internship they will do for hybrid or online internships to the department internship commission together with the APPENDIX-1A documents.

 Answer: Internships cannot be done on days with classes. This rule also applies to online courses and internships.

 Answer: Students are NOT allowed to complete more than one internship in the same company.

 Answer: Internships can be completed during the semester, provided that it is at least 2 days a week on non-class days. Students who want to do internship during the semester should send an e-mail containing the internship work schedule (from the Portal) and a screenshot of the course schedule, together with the Appendix-1A documents, to the Department Internship Commission.

 Answer: According to the general principles of ITU Internship, you can use compassionate leave for 10 percent of your total internship period. In order to change the date or cancel the internship for which the application has been made or started, the conditions specified in the ITU Acceptance of Excuses and Execution Exams must be met. In this case, the student must apply to the ITU Faculty of Management for the cancellation of the internship, together with the excuse.

 Answer: If the internship has not started yet, students should apply for a help ticket to the Central Internship Unit and submit the issue and get approval for the new dates. In order to change the date of the internships that have started, the student must apply to the ITU Faculty of Management.

 Answer:
i. The internship report is a document in which each day of the internship is written separately. Therefore, the internship report should be at least 20 pages. In the report, any two days during the internship cannot be explained on a single page.
ii. The language of the report must be English. Reports written in Turkish will be rejected.
iii. Each day of the internship should be described in at least 3-4 sentences.
iv. While writing the internship report, the formal draft should be used. The draft is available in the "Class Files" tab of the internship class registered in the Ninova system.

 Answer: For summer internships, the report must be submitted within one month at the latest from the start of the following academic year. For internships during the semester, it must be submitted within 15 days following the end of the internship. Students at the graduation stage must submit their internship report 15 days before the internship deadline specified in the academic calendar at the latest.

 Answer: It is the student's responsibility to plan according to public holidays while organizing the internship calendar.

 Answer: After the 1st internship report is fully uploaded to the system and approved, students can apply for their 2nd internship in the same term. However, it is essential that the student follow-up the documents and inform the Department Internship Committee at the right time for the approval process. Students cannot start their second internship before the first internship is approved.

 Answer: The enterprises and institutions where economics department internships will be held may operate in public or private sector, at home country or abroad. Before starting the compulsory internship, each student is obliged to notify the Department and the Internship Commission, together with the APPENDIX-1A document.

 Answer: The internship of the students who have registered in a Double Major Program, are accepted in the Economics Department, provided that the documents related to the internship are submitted and the content of the internship is appropriate.

 Answer: Internships whose reports are accepted are recorded in the old student information system.
Only students whose report is requested to be corrected are contacted. Notification e-mails are not sent to students whose reports are accepted.
When your internship is approved, it will appear on your transcript in the old student information system.