The Internship Center of the University of La Guajira is an essential component in the formation of our students, playing a fundamental role in the consolidation of their competencies as future professionals. Our vision regarding internships is based on the effective transfer of knowledge in real work environments, through strategic alliances with collaborating institutions and organizations.
Our institutional objectives are aligned with creating meaningful opportunities for our students in their practice settings, facilitating their transition to the working and professional world. We strive to promote innovation, competitiveness and the development of essential competencies that enable them to excel in a variety of practical fields.
In this context, we value internships as an optimal space to evaluate both transversal and specific competencies that our students have acquired throughout their education. We are committed to providing enriching internship experiences that enrich their academic preparation and prepare them for a successful insertion into the world of work.
Our Mission
To train integral professionals who perceive, apprehend, generate, apply and transform knowledge within a framework of cultural diversity through their own activities (teaching, research, social outreach and extension) to meet the needs of sustainable and sustainable development y sustentable de la sociedad guajira y de su entorno, con especial énfasis en el auto reconocimiento de las condiciones de multicultural conditions with a view to the development of the integral personality of all its institutional actors and the community in general to achieve intercultural conditions.
Our Vision
By 2030, the University of La Guajira will be the center of regional culture, with local, national and international recognition for the achievement of quality accreditation of its academic and institutional programs; It will train people with integrity, dedicated with vocation and commitment to social service through teaching and research, committed to the generation and ethical application of science to solve the problems of the environment in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of citizens, according to the demands of its proximity to the borders for which it will make agreements and inter-institutional exchanges, close border, international in the face of the demands of globalization.
Our internship space offers a unique opportunity to gain practical skills and experience in the professional field. With programs designed to complement your academic education, we give you the opportunity to apply your knowledge in real-world settings and collaborate with professionals in your field of study.
Who are we?
To guarantee the integral development of personnel through the planning, execution and effective control of human talent management activities, continuously improving competitiveness and the work environment, supported by social welfare and occupational health and safety actions that lead to the improvement of the quality of life of employees, workers and teachers.
General objectives of the internship
- To support the complete training of students through the linkage in an internship scenario in an organization/institution for the application of knowledge acquired in the classroom.
- To orient the student towards the exploration of solutions to situations and problems that arise within the organization/institution where he/she is assigned.
- To contribute in the formation of integral professionals with skills and attitudes so that the student achieves a competent professional performance in the organizational environment.
- Strengthen the academic and inter-institutional feedback process between the University and the external sector.
- To allow the student to acquire professional experience.
Values
La Universidad de la Guajira, ha de contribuir a preservar el legado de la Honesty y de la Ética, para lo cual considera que su esfuerzo institucional se enfocará en lograr de todos sus actores y estamentos una actitud Honesta de la cual derive su comportamiento habitual trayendo como consecuencia que la institución se esfuerce por fomentar el sentido del valor profundo e integral del ser humano, por lo que debe promover e inculcar en todos los escenarios y actividades los siguientes values que derivan del ser Honesto: Honradez, tolerancia, ecuanimidad, rigurosidad, transparencia, austeridad, reconocimiento, solidaridad, afectividad, trabajo en equipo, equidad, sentido de pertenencia, respeto y lealtad; en consecuencia, la Honesty se convierte en el principio rector y aglutinador de los demás values enunciados, con el fin de acercarse al ideal de alcanzar la práctica de los values dentro del diario vivir, y así fortalecer la imagen de la universidad de La Guajira en todos los ámbitos sociales, académicos y administrativos en los que actúa.
Actors in the internship and practicum process
Practice square or stage: This refers to the private, public or non-profit institution/organization that receives the intern for the development and fulfillment of complementary training activities related to his/her knowledge. According to what is established by the respective academic program.
Practitioner: A student enrolled in an academic program and who is eligible to perform academic/professional practice activities in an organizational/institutional setting.
Academic/professional practice: Theoretical-practical training activity carried out by a student of undergraduate higher education training programs, during a determined period of time, in a real work environment, with accompaniment and on subjects related to his/her area of study, in compliance with a requirement to complete his/her studies or obtain a degree that will accredit him/her for work performance.
Internship Supervisor: Person assigned by the organization/institution in the internship setting who monitors the student's compliance with the academic/professional internship. The supervision must be coordinated with the program's internship coordinator/teacher.
General
The Coordination of the Internship Center is responsible for the implementation and dissemination of this procedure to all staff of the University of La Guajira and the community in general, for their respective application and compliance. Likewise, it must permanently verify that the guidelines specified in it are complied with in correspondence with the needs arising from the established objectives.
Operating policies
- The teacher, tutor or internship coordinator per program is responsible for socializing the students with the updated database of current agreements, providing general guidelines on internships and validating the approval or not of the internships.
- The Internship Center is in charge of mapping and disseminating internal/external calls for internships, managing new inter-institutional agreements and following up on internship opportunities according to the needs of the programs.
- The teacher, tutor or internship coordinator for each program is responsible for seeking, in coordination with the Internship Center, the availability of places for the student based on the verification of current agreements and in case there are no agreements in force, the signing of the same is managed. with the organization/institution, who must submit the respective letter of intent and other documents required by Uniguajira for the signing of agreements.
- The formalization of the internship is mandatory and must be done through agreements, minutes, resolutions, contracts, memorandum of understanding or according to the modality managed or indicated by the external institution/organization for the linking of the intern.
- All practitioners, without exception, must be affiliated in the ARL as a requirement to carry out the internships as established in the TH-P-16. Procedure for student affiliation to the general labor risk system (SGRL).
- The Contracting Office is responsible for following up on the agreements and, in coordination with the Internship Center, updating their database. If there is a need to sign new agreements, the administrative process is carried out in compliance with the requirements established at the institutional level. With the exception of state or multinational institutions that do not require the signing of an agreement to formalize the development of internships.
- The Internship Center is responsible for mediating the formalization of agreements before the Contracting Office. All agreements will have a supervisor at the institutional level, who will be appointed by the academic faculties or administrative area, as the case may be.
- The Contracting Office will be responsible for the review, preparation and filing of the agreements.
- The Internship Center is responsible for articulating with University Social Welfare for the development of orientation talks or psychosocial and professional preparation and fulfillment of duties as a student prior to the beginning of the internship in the assigned organization/institution through the extracurricular course called Professional Orientation.
- The Teachers, Tutors and Internship Coordinators of each academic program will be responsible for receiving and safeguarding all supporting documents for the registration, planning, follow-up and evaluation of the academic internships.
- The Faculty Councils will be responsible for receiving and safeguarding all supporting documents for the registration, planning, follow-up and evaluation of the internships with degree option.
- The Internship Center will be responsible for receiving the documents specified below: Attendance Lists. Form: AD-F-02, CI-F-03. Request for services from the communications office, Database of agreements, Technical sheets of calls, Publication in institutional digital media, External and internal calls sheets, Agreement 010 of 2019, GE-F-61. Form for requesting interns from external entities, GC-F-26. Format for review or return of documentation for the elaboration of review agreements, Formalized agreement, List of eligible students assigned to internships and List of internship results. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
- The letter of endorsement and work plan are documents that must be provided by the institutions/organizations interested in signing agreements with Uniguajira.
- The suspension or cancellation of the internship occurs in the following cases: The student fails to comply with the assigned responsibilities and obligations, the organization, entity or institution, cancels the academic/curricular, pedagogical, community, business/option to degree and judiciary practices by written communication expressing the reasons and all those actions explicit in the agreements and that by the student and put in doubt the good name of both the institution/organization and the University and other grounds set forth in agreement 010 of 2019.
- The final approval of the internship must be given according to the fulfillment of the requirements established by each modality and the institutional regulations.
