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Article 1.- The pre-professional practices of ESPOL students are mandatory and a prerequisite for obtaining their degree, corresponding to the training field of professional praxis of their respective careers, through which they apply knowledge and develop specific skills and abilities for an adequate performance of their future profession.

In every pre-professional practice a student must perform the activities, which are planned, monitored and evaluated by a tutor, in coordination with a person in charge of the receiving institution. A student who is on probation will not be able to perform the pre-professional internship.

If in the pre-professional practice, in addition to the academic training, the payment of a monthly stipend is agreed upon, it shall be considered as an internship and shall be governed by the applicable regulations without modifying the character and academic effects of the same.

Article 2.- As a prerequisite for obtaining the degree, students must accredit hours of pre-professional business and community service internships, duly monitored, in the fields of their specialty.

Article 3.- The pre-professional internships may be articulated through:

1. Institutional or Academic Unit linkage programs, duly approved.
2. Projects of linkage associated with the programs.
3. Specific activities requested.

Article 4.- The pre-professional internships can be developed inside or outside the country in the following environments:

1. Public or private, national or foreign companies.
2. ) Public or private non-profit institutions, national or foreign civil society organizations.
3. Urban-marginal, rural sectors or national free care centers.
4. In the field of Teaching and Research.

Article 5.- Pre-professional internships are classified as follows:

1. Entrepreneurial: All those carried out in the environment determined in letter (a) of Art. 4 of this regulatory body.
2. Community service: All those carried out in the environments determined in letter (c) of Art. 4 of this regulatory body.
3. Teaching assistantships: Those performed exclusively at the ESPOL.
4. Research assistantships: Those carried out as part of research projects approved by ESPOL.

Article 6.- The pre-professional internships will be distributed throughout the career, starting from the professional unit of the curricular organization and prior to taking the integrating subject.

Article 7.- Students must accredit at least 400 hours of pre-professional practices articulated to the career profile, according to the conditions established in the Academic Regime Regulation, issued by the CES. Students may choose one of the following options:

1. All pre-professional internship hours destined to community service;
2. A minimum of 160 hours of pre-professional internships for community service, and the remaining hours for pre-professional internships of a business type,
3. Minimum 160 hours of pre-professional community service internships, maximum 80 hours in teaching or research assistantships, and the remaining hours for pre-professional business internships.

Article 8.- Teaching or research assistantships shall be validated as pre-professional internship hours if and only if the evaluation of the assistantship is at least 60% of the maximum grade assigned to this activity.

Article 9.- The pre-professional community service internships do not include isolated activities, such as:

1. Collection of money in public or private spaces.
2. Ornamental and decorative activities.
3. Activities of repair and painting of any building.
4. Volunteer activities whose beneficiary is the polytechnic community.
5. Cleaning activities in communities or public or private institutions.
6. All activities that do not contribute to the development of the professional profile of the career.

Article 10.- The identification, planning, execution and evaluation of programs, pre-professional internship projects may be carried out by an academic unit, jointly by several academic units of ESPOL and even with academic units of other local, national and foreign HEIs.

Article 11.- The academic units shall be responsible for maintaining the original documentation related to all stages of the pre-professional internship process.

Article 12.- Each academic unit shall designate a general person in charge of the link with society per unit or career, in addition to tutors and project directors.

Article 13.- For the development of pre-professional internships, ESPOL and institutions, companies or community organizations, public or private, will sign agreements and/or letters of commitment.

The letters of commitment will state the nature of the legal relationship, the planned activities of the internship, the duration and the commitments of the parties. The letters of commitment must be signed by the highest authority of the academic unit, the tutor teacher, the company tutor and the company representative.

Article 14.- All Pre-professional Internships must have an Academic Tutor assigned by the Community Service Coordinator or the Business Internship Coordinator, who will monitor the correct development of the internship.

Article 15.- In the event of any breach of commitments by the receiving institution or there is an assignment of tasks that is not related to the plan of activities linked to the student's training, the academic tutor will negotiate with the receiving institution the solution to the breach and, if deemed appropriate, will suspend the internship.

Article 16.- Students who work as employees or independently, as well as students who perform pre-professional business internships abroad, for the purpose of accrediting the mandatory pre-professional internship hours, must comply with the provisions of these regulations.

Article 17.- The general reports of the pre-professional internships prepared by the academic tutors must be approved by the responsible person defined by the academic unit prior to the registration of the hours performed in the student's academic record.

Article 18.- Students are obliged to enroll in the pre-professional internship. If the student fails or voluntarily withdraws from the pre-professional internship after 7 days from the beginning of the internship, it will be considered loss of enrollment and the student will lose the free registration the second time he/she registers.

In case of withdrawal due to fortuitous situations or force majeure that prevent the completion of the internship, these cases duly documented will be known and approved by the corresponding Board of Directors, at the time the situation arises.

Article 19.- The student may perform up to 30 hours per week of pre-professional internships, as long as these do not exceed 55 hours per week of total workload, considering the hours of classroom, practical and autonomous learning. In case the characteristics of the internship require it and the Coordinator of business internships or community service of the career authorizes it:

1. Students may perform activities on Saturdays and / or Sundays and holidays.
2. Students may perform internships with a workload of more than 30 hours per week.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

First.- For students who enrolled in the Integrating Subject until the II Academic Term 2015-2016, the number of hours of pre-professional internships will be established by each career according to their current study programs. Of these, up to 20% of the number of hours may be credited with teaching or research assistantships carried out as of the I Academic Term 2014-2015.

Second.- As of the first academic term 2016-2017, students enrolled in the Integrating Subject must have completed all the pre-professional internship hours required by their degree program, including the 160 hours of community service internships.