The importance of practical training in the European Higher Education Area and in the context of Bologna Process is increasing and constantly changing. The University of Ljubljana and the Faculty of Social Sciences have also systematically included practical training of students in their programs. At the undergraduate level of the Social Informatics program, practical training takes place in the course Internship and its evaluation is the focus of this thesis. We first give an overview of the general situation and then present the existing external and internal evaluations. Furthermore, we code and analyze all internship reports of the students and conduct three expert interviews. On this basis, we provide a systematic overview of the course of practical training at the faculty level and specifically in the program Social Informatics. We integrate the experiences of all stakeholders: students, mentors and faculty administration. The results show that all stakeholders are aware of the usefulness of practical training. They also express high satisfaction with the whole process of practical training. The comments mainly focus on the duration of practical training. Last year, the implementation was also severely disrupted by the pandemic COVID-19, which limited the interest of companies in practical training.
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