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2023/2024

Work Placement

Code: 44469 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4317520 Territorial Studies and Planning OT 0 2

Contact

Name:
Joan Carles Llurdes Coit
Email:
joancarles.llurdes@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject. Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2023.


Prerequisites

To register for these course one must contact the Masters coordinator so that the profile of the student who requests to do an internship and the suitability of the internship in connection to the competences and the learning outcomes of the Masters programme can be evaluated.

Depending on the work to be carried out and / or the place assigned, a certain command of a foreign language and or Catalan / Spanish may be required (the latter is of special interest for students of foreign origin). An internship at a previously selected entity may be denied in the event that the language requirement cannot be guaranteed. It is also advisable to have your own car and / or to be able to access public transport with some ease because most likely the practices will involve having to travel regularly. Finally, it is also recommended to have a digital signature (this greatly speeds up the processing of the internship agreement).

Although the Department of Geography will offer a list of places where to develop the practices, it is also recommended that the student look for their own contacts; This way you can ensure that you will end up doing the internship where you really want.


Objectives and Contextualisation

The objective of the course is to do an individual stay under the supervision of a tutor in a private sector company or public entity, in which they must take charge of the tasks entrusted to them and that prior agreement with the coordinator of the subject, will be related to any of the topics related to the contents of the master's degree.

The choice of the assigned internship center will be made taking into account the interests expressed by the student as well as the needs of the place and the real possibilities in accordance with the agreements signed with the Department of Geography.


Learning Outcomes

  • CA17 (Competence) Identify the methodologies and techniques required for professional practice and used for spatial and urban planning on a territorial level.
  • CA18 (Competence) Connect the application and progress of the principles of ecological, social and economic sustainability for spaces of different scales.
  • CA19 (Competence) Summarise the theoretical concepts learnt while carrying out assignments and focus particularly on the different territorial and urban scales.
  • KA17 (Knowledge) Identify different methodologies used for scalar analysis by applying both urban and territorial knowledge to case studies.
  • KA18 (Knowledge) Recognise the tools and methods used by companies and public institutions to treat territorial and urban problems.
  • SA14 (Skill) Perform tasks during the period of professional work experience that reflect the principles of sustainability and social participation.
  • SA15 (Skill) Extract relevant information from reports, projects and other professional documents related to land management.

Content

Carrying out an internship in a company or entity of the private or public sector, under the supervision of a tutor and the coordinator of the subject. The stay is usually during the second semester although there is the possibility of doing the internship before, and its duration is determined by the total number of credits of the subject (6), or 150 hours. They can even be done during the summer of the enrolled academic year, but in any case they must be completed before the start of the new academic year (usually the 1st week of September at the latest). It must be taken into account that not all the theoretical hours of the credits will be allocated to the stay, strictu sensu, in the workplace but that a small part has also been allocated to a presentation meeting of the subject, to the writing of the follow-up and end-of-practice reports. In total, around 140 hours are counted.

The internship will have to be in a company or entity in which it is really feasible for the student to do the internship in person (at least in part). In principle, those agreements that involve online internships in their entirety will be ruled out.

The entities with which we have collaborated in the last courses are these:

  1. Generalitat de Catalunya (Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques).
  2. Generalitat de Catalunya (Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat).
  3. Espai Tres.
  4. La Fàbrica del Sol.
  5. Observatorio del Paisaje.
  6. Solucions Geogràfiques.
  7. Institut Metròpoli (former "Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona, IERMB).
  8. Activa Prospect.
  9. Ayuntamientos varios.
  10. Intra SL.
  11. Mcrit.
  12. Doymo.
  13. Diputación de Barcelona (Área de Promoción Económica).
  14. Sistemas Medioambientales.
  15. Lavola Cosostenibilidad.
  16. Simbiosy.
  17. Grupo de Investigación TUDISTAR (Departamento de Geografía UAB).
  18. Grupo de Estudis de Movilidad, Transporte y Territorio (GEMOTT) (Departamento de Geografía UAB).
  19. Grupo de Estudios sobre Energía, Territorio y Sociedad (GURB) (Departamento de Geografía UAB).
  20. Grupo de Investigación de Recursos Costeros y Paisaje (Interfase) (Departamento de Geografia UAB).
  21. Grupo de Investigación de Geografía Aplicada (Departamento de Geografía UAB).
  22. Observatorio de la Urbanización.
  23. Centro de Estudios Demográficos (CED) (UAB).
  24. Plan Estratégico Metropolitano de Barcelona (PEMB).
  25. Territorisxlm.
  26. El Globus Vermell.
  27. Iridia.
  28. 300000 km/s.
  29. Equal Saree.
  30. Asociación para la Defensa y el Estudio de la Naturaleza de Catalunya (ADENC).
  31. Estudi Ramon Folch i Associats.
  32. Raons Públiques.
  33. Observatori DESC.
  34. Cooperativa Estel.
  35. Vaic Mobility.
  36. Eurovelo.
  37. Barcelona Regional.
In any case, every year we work to expand the list of companies and entities and offer students a wide range of possibilities.

Methodology

This is a subject without teaching, there is no strictu sensu methodology. However, taking this course implies the completion of:

  1. Practical activities (problems, exercises, analysis, resolution of cases raised by the tutor).
  2. Individualized tutoring with the tutor assigned in the company as well as with the coordinator of the subject (follow-up reports).
  3. Depending on the tasks entrusted, these may sometimes involve field trips and / or office work.
  4. Study and personal work (preparation of 2 follow-up reports and 1 report at the end of practices).

It must be taken into account that there will be a Moodle space in which the main reference documents of the subject will be published (agreement models, reports, list of confirmed internships, a control table or monitoring of practices for each of the students, etc.). The student will have to consult and / or download them with a certain frequency.

ATTENTION: the possibility of having to do the practices on line, in part, should not be ruled out.

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.


Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Study and personal work 10 0.4
Type: Supervised      
Tutoring sessions; field trips; practical activities 140 5.6

Assessment

The evaluation of the practices consists of:

  • Preparation of two follow-up reports and a final report: 65% of the final grade (non-recoverable activities).
  • Final report from the tutor: 35% of the final grade (non-recoverable activity).

It should also be borne in mind that during the internship period, the student will have to submit two follow-up reports, the first one once 10% of the total hours have been completed and the second one with 75% completed. Its purpose is to detect possible anomalies or aspects that do not conform to the agreements of the internship agreement, and to try to correct them in time.

It must be taken into account that this subject does not contemplate the possibility of a single evaluation, as stated here: https://www.uab.cat/doc/AvaluacioUnica_MU_Estudis_Territorials_Planejament

No Matrícula d’Honor grade is awarded due to the optional nature of this grade and the heterogeneity of this subject in the different degrees taught in the Faculty. These course cannot be reassessed in the event that the student fails. Students will obtain a "Not assessed/Not submitted course" grade unless they have submitted more than 1/3 of the assessment items.

VERY IMPORTANT: The total or partial plagiarism of any of the exercises will automatically be considered a SUSPENSION (0) of the plagiarized exercise. PLAGIARISM is copying from unidentified sources of a text, be it a single sentence or more, that pretends to be own production (THIS INCLUDES COPYING PHRASES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATIONS TO THE TEXT THAT IS PRESENTED AS OWN), and is serious offense. You have to learn to respect intellectual property and to always identify the sources that can be used, and it is essential to take responsibility for the originality and authenticity of your own text


Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Final report of the tutor 35 0 0 CA17, CA18, CA19, KA17, KA18, SA14
Monitoring reports and final report 65% 0 0 CA17, CA18, SA14, SA15

Bibliography

None specific.

Software

The students will have to demonstrate a certain mastery of some tools and programming, from the most common and general use to others of more specific with which the assigned entity usually works; this will depend on the entity assigned (for example, Microsoft office, GIS, QGIS or ArcGis).