This strongly project-based activity aims at supporting the students that are about to graduate in the management of the practical part of their degree thesis. Rather than actual teaching, the synthesis workshop is a compound of activities that are designed and planned around the thesis projects themselves. The students will have the opportunity to attend classes, in form of lectures, that relate to the thesis project they have chosen, as well as to have professors in their reference field reviewing their work. The planning of such activities follows the approval of the thesis projects, in order to customise as much as possible the professors’ contribution and to offer the students highly targeted support, thus maximising outcomes and quality. According to the individual cases, group lectures and individual reviews will alternate.

The programme consists of one single module, which grants 12 credits.

Learning outcomes can vary depending on the project, that can in turn take very different shapes depending on the specific discipline. However, they normally concern the ability to synthetize into a project the ideas expresses by the thesis paper.

The activities contents revolve around the development of the thesis projects and are planed according to the thesis proposals.

The students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Active classroom participation to debates

• Exercises and revisions

There will be no activity evaluation, as the goal of the synthesis workshop is to support the development of the final exam; however, supervisors will assess the suitability of each project.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.