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11.5.1. Institute/NSPP together with SIP and SEC:
- determines strategic foreign partners according to the topics of master's projects and
doctoral dissertations;
- develops an internship program, coordinates with a foreign partner, conducts a competition
to determine applicants for an internship and, following the results of the competition,
submits a list of students and an internship program to the Academic Quality Council for
approval. The internship program should correspond to the specialization profile, be relevant
and have practical significance and should be designed in accordance with Annex 7. For
doctoral students, an individual internship program is developed and approved at the AQC,
which must be issued in accordance with Annex 8;
- plans the budget for the internship (in the case of the organization of the internship
at the expense of the state budget);
- prepares and signs an internship agreement between the Academy and the partner,
with the approval of the LDSD;
- prepares an idea about the direction of students for an internship;
- prepares and signs an agreement between students and the Academy on
internship and mutual responsibility;
- determines the internship supervisor from the Academy
- organizes the preparation and holding of instructional meetings of students with the
leadership of the Institute/NSPP;
- provides methodological assistance to the student
- provides consulting assistance to the student in solving problems arising during
the internship;
- monitors the passage of an internship for students;
- sends proposals to the supervising vice-rector on termination of the internship
agreement with the student and (or) expulsion of the student, in case of non-fulfillment of
the requirements provided for in the concluded contract, including in case of unauthorized
termination of the internship;
- requests information about the process of the trainees' internship from the host
party;
- organizes the protection of internship reports;
11.5.2. Institutes/NSPP together with SIP:
- conducts negotiations with strategic partners (establishing contacts, requesting
commercial proposals, requesting and sending the necessary documents/ information to
the partner, etc.);
- provides organizational support to students for obtaining a visa (if necessary): consultation
on the list of documents, preparation of necessary letters, certificates, hotel reservations,
tickets.
The EPC is preparing an order for an internship.
11.5.3. The decision on the student's participation in the internship is made at a meeting
of the directorates of Institutes/NSHGP, then considered by the Academy's competition
commission and submitted for approval to the Academic Quality Council (Appendix 9).
11.6. When admitting undergraduates to undergo a foreign internship, the requirements
of the state mandatory standard of postgraduate education, as well as the following criteria,
are considered:
1) lack of academic debt;
2) preliminary research results and (or) publications on the research topic;
3) presentation from the Institutes/NSPP based on the results of the discussion at the
directorate;
4) the presence of a permit from the place of work to travel abroad (for those who have
access to states’ secrets);
5) the presence of a supporting document stating that the student is not on the list of