Curricular, training, and career exploration internships
The Lazio Regional Directorate of National Museums offers opportunities for academic, training, and career-oriented internships at its offices, museums, and cultural sites. Specific agreements are in place with universities and research centers located throughout Italy.
The training plan is agreed upon with the university advisor and the department advisor.
The planned activities cover a range of areas:
- study and research;
- educational;
- communication, promotion, and event planning;
- conservation and restoration;
- cataloging, inventorying, and digitization;
- marketing and fundraising;
- statistics and assessment of visitor satisfaction.
Additional activities can be arranged with individual students.
Interested students may submit their applications through the procedures specified by the partner universities listed below and contact the Directorate’s Office of Educational Services and Training by emailing drm-laz.servizieducativi@cultura.gov.it
It is also possible to submit a request to activate new agreements: university internship coordinators can send a request to drm-laz@cultura.gov.it
Active agreements
Sapienza University of Rome
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Roma Tre University
University of Tuscia (Unitus Academy School of Advanced Education)
Center for Criminological Studies of Viterbo
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
University of Naples Federico II
University of Perugia
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
eCampus Online University
Relevant legislation
Art. 15 of Law No. 241 of 1990 (providing public administrations with the option to enter into cooperation agreements for activities of common interest);
Art. 18 of Law No. 196 of June 24, 1997 (Provisions on the promotion of employment);
Interministerial Decree No. 142 of March 25, 1998 (Regulations containing rules for the implementation of the principles and criteria set forth in Article 18 of Law No. 196 of June 24, 1997, on training and orientation internships);
Ministry of Labor Circular No. 92 of July 15, 1998 (Employment – extraordinary measures – training and orientation internships – internships – clarifications from the Ministry);
Articles 118 and 119 of Legislative Decree 42/2004 (possibility of entering into agreements between the Ministry and universities, local authorities, and other public and private entities for activities related to cultural heritage);
Legislative Decree No. 81 of April 9, 2008, as amended and supplemented;
Agreement between the Government, the Regions, and the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano on the document containing “Guidelines on Training and Orientation Internships,” pursuant to Article 1, paragraphs 34 through 36, of Law No. 92 of June 28, 2012. Conference of May 25, 2017;
Memorandum of Understanding of December 17, 2020, between the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Ministry of University and Research (the Parties “within the scope of their respective duties and functions assigned by law, intend to cooperate for the enhancement and integration of research”; Art. 3, para. 3 “cooperation between the central and regional offices and research institutes of MiBACT with the universities and research bodies supervised by MUR, in order to jointly develop research projects” and Art. 3, para. 8 “coordination of joint initiatives, including those already underway, which also involve other public and/or private entities on issues of research, innovation, and training for cultural heritage and tourism”).