Internships and graduation theses

The Regional Museum of Natural Sciences is a host institution for curricular internships for students of the University of Turin, the Polytechnic University of Turin and the University of Eastern Piedmont, with whom a framework agreement has been signed by Regione Piemonte.

Each intern, in order to start working at the Museum, must have attended the 4-hour course on safety in the workplace ‘General Training and Specific Risks’ and obtained the certificate.

Internship topics are aligned with the fields covered within the Sections the Museum is divided into.

The current projects for each section are as follows:

Management of herbarium specimens, with a view to their preservation, their fruition by external users, and their valorisation: cataloguing, creating new databases as well as checking existing ones, assembling exsiccata, scanning and digitising specimens from newly acquired collections.

Knowledge and study of flora: determination of herbarium specimens by reference floras.

Target groups: students of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Natural Sciences and the Master's Degree Course in Natural Systems Sciences; students of the Bachelor's and Master's Degree Course of the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine – SAMEV (Unito).

Time frame: to be agreed with the section staff.

Time slot:

• Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.;
• Friday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Applications submission: botanica.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it.
The application must include:

• curriculum vitae;
• list of all passed examinations;
• university training credits.

Systematisation and revision of the entomology collections: systematisation, taxonomic revision, cleaning, restoration, cataloguing, acquisition of digital images of entomology collections, both historical and contemporary, aimed at their preservation, their fruition by external users, and their enhancement, as well as scientific and historical-scientific investigation.

Some collections may be the topic of catalogues published in the MRSN Bulletin or in digital format.

Target groups: students of the Bachelor's or Master's degree courses of the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, of the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences and of the Department of Veterinary Sciences.

Time frame: to be agreed with the section staff.

Time slot:

• Monday to Thursday 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m;
• Friday 8.30 – 12.30.
  

Applications submission: entomologia.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it.
The application must include:

• curriculum vitae;
• list of all passed examinations;
• university training credits.

Management of mineralogical and petrographic findings: cataloguing, labelling, arrangement and creation of a photographic archive of the University and Museum collections for their preservation, their fruition by external users and their valorisation.

Target groups: students of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Natural Sciences and Geological Sciences and the Master's Degree Course in Natural Systems Sciences and Geological Sciences and Technologies.

Time frame: to be agreed with the section staff.

Time slot:

• Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.;
• Friday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Applications submission: mineralogia.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it.

The application must include:

• curriculum vitae;
• list of all passed examinations;
• university training credits.

Management of palaeontology findings: cataloguing, labelling, systematisation and creation of a photographic archive. Updating the University and Museum collections databases (plant and invertebrate findings), with a view to their conservation, their fruition by external users and their valorisation.

Target groups: students of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Natural Sciences and the Master's Degree Course in Natural Systems Sciences.

Time frame: to be agreed with the section staff.

Time slot:

• Monday to Thursday 9.30 am – 5.30 pm,;
• Friday 9.30 am – 1 pm.

Applications submission: paleontologia.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it.
To be eligible for the internship, students must have passed the Palaeontology examination.

Systematisation and revision of the zoology collection:

systematisation, taxonomic revision, cleaning, cataloguing, acquisition of digital images, creation of a photographic archive of the specimens in the collection, input into databases of a variety of zoological collections, both historical and contemporary (invertebrate, ichthyological, herpetological, ornithological, mammalogical) with a view to their preservation, their fruition by external users, and their enhancement.

Some collections may be the topic of catalogues published either in the MRSN Bulletin or in digital format.

Target groups: students of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Natural Sciences, the Bachelor's Degree Course in Biological Sciences, the Master's Degree Course in Natural Systems Sciences, the Master's Degree Course in Environmental Biology and the Master's Degree Course in Evolution of Animal and Human Behaviour

Time frame: to be agreed with the section staff.

Time slot:

• Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.;
• Friday, 9 a.m. –1 p.m.

Applications submission: zoologia.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it
The application must include:

• curriculum vitae;
• list of all passed examinations;
• university training credits.

Assistance in education and training services: planning, steering and assessing teaching and educational activities for schools, families and the general public.

Addressed to: students of the Master's Degree Course in Natural Systems Sciences, Master's Degree Course in Primary Education Sciences and equivalent.

Time frame: mainly during the school term, from September to June.

Time slot:

• Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.;
• occasionally at weekends.

Applications submission: didattica.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it.

The application must include:

• curriculum vitae;
• list of all passed examinations;
• university training credits.

Social media: assistance in designing the editorial plan for Facebook and Instagram. Assistance in creating printed and/or computerised materials and graphic design.

Target group: students pursuing a Communication Sciences degree course.

Time frame: to be agreed with the staff, mainly from September to June.

Time slot:

• Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.;
• Friday, 9 a.m. –1 p.m.

Applications submission: eventi.mrsn@regione.piemonte.it.
The application must include:

• curriculum vitae;
• list of all passed examinations;
• university training credits.

Insofar as the availability of MRSN staff, it is possible to extend the traineeship for the completion of a three-year or specialist thesis.