Answer 01: Yes. Internships are compulsory .

  Answer 02: There are 2(two) internships.

 Answer 03: Each internship is 20(twenty) working days.

  Answer 04: 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 05:
a) Before the internship
i. Internship applications must be submitted at latest 15(fifteen) days 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 at least 6(six) days before the internship starts. It is uploaded to the system via https://portal.itu.edu.tr web address.
For Appendix-1A approval, students must contact with eco-intern@itu.edu.tr.
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(five) days of the internship.
c) After the internship
i. Internship Completion Certificate (Appendix-3) must be signed by the company within 5(five) 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 06: No. It is sufficient to upload the internship report with all the attachments to the Ninova system as a single merged PDF file.

 Answer 07: 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 08: No. Internships cannot be done on days with classes or exams. This rule also applies to online courses and internships.

 Answer 09: No. Students are not allowed to complete more than one internship in the same company, even if the department is different.

 Answer 10: Yes. Internships can be completed during the semester, provided that it is at least 3(three) days a week on non-class/non-exam 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 11: 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 12: If the internship has not started yet, students must apply for a help ticket(https://yardim.itu.edu.tr) 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 13:
i. The internship report is a document in which each day of the internship is written separately. Therefore, the internship report must be at least 20(twenty) 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 must be described in at least 3-4 sentences .
iv. While writing the internship report, the formal draft must be used. The draft is available in the "Class Files" tab of the internship class registered in the Ninova system.

 Answer 14: For summer internships, the report must be submitted within 1(one) month at the latest from the start of the following academic year. For internships during the semester, it must be submitted within 15(fifteen) days following the end of the internship. Students at the graduation stage must submit their internship report at least 15(fifteen) days before the internship deadline specified in the academic calendar.

 Answer 15: It is the student's responsibility to plan according to public holidays while organizing the internship calendar. If the total number of internship days is below 20(twenty) , students cannot submit their internship reports.

 Answer 16: 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 17: 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 18: 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 19: Internships whose reports are accepted are recorded in the Old Student Information System (Banner; https://www.sis.itu.edu.tr/TR/obs-giris/obs-giris.php).
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 (Banner; https://www.sis.itu.edu.tr/TR/obs-giris/obs-giris.php).