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Committees and delegates

Course Council Coordinator

Duties and functions:  

  • performs all duties assigned by the University Statute and the University Teaching Regulations;  
  • coordinates the committees and those responsible for the activities of the CdS;
  • convenes the CCS and submits the SUA-CdS, the SMA, the RRCs for approval;
  • communicates to the CCS the results of all activities carried out by the committees and the various activity managers; 

Contact

Course of Study QA Committee

The degree programme (CdS) has a Quality Assurance (QA) system in place to monitor its management processes.

It is responsible for:

  • compiling and updating the Single Annual Report (SUA-CdS)
  • analysing and compiling the Annual Monitoring Report (SMA)
  • draft the Cyclical Review Report (RCR) and monitor the progress of the proposed improvement activities
  • analyse teaching evaluation questionnaires, Almalaurea questionnaires and other sources of information (e.g. questionnaires from host organisations or companies)
  • analyse the report of the Joint School Committee
  • monitor students’ career paths
  • analyse reports and requests from students, lecturers, and technical and administrative staff in accordance with the procedures established by the University
  • promote a culture of educational quality and self-assessment within the degree programme
  • in collaboration with the Committee responsible for work placements and career guidance, organise the collection of questionnaires and feedback from the organisations where work placements have taken place 

Committee members

Teaching Commission

Responsibilities include:

  • assessing the adequacy of teaching facilities and student services
  • verify that the number of credits is proportionate to the teaching workload and that progression through the semesters is appropriate
  • periodically review entry requirements and the arrangements for mid-term and final assessments
  • check that the information in the course descriptions is complete
  • periodically review the training programme on the basis of data and guidance derived from monitoring activities and organise its delivery, whilst also taking into account the requirements of facilities and services
  • harmonise the programmes for training activities

Committee members

Steering Committee (Advisory Council)

Its remit is:

  • to identify training needs arising from society, the world of work and the cultural sector
  • providing advice on ensuring that study programmes and specific training activities are consistent with training demand
  • to provide recommendations on improving and enhancing training activities.
  • propose thematic seminars covering both technical topics and intellectual property management, or relating to legislation/regulations and financial issues that influence the technical activities covered in the degree programme
  • organise visits to facilities, companies or laboratories
  • suggest joint activities to promote the degree programme.

Committee members

And representatives from the following companies:

  • SCI – Liguria Section (Italian Chemical Society – Liguria Section)
  • Chemists’ Professional Association
  • ILVA
  • FACI SpA
  • Iplom
  • Infineum
  • Bioindustria L.I.M.
  • Spiga Nord SpA
  • PPG Italia Business Support Srl
  • SACMI Imola S.C.
  • Italian Association for Science and Technology of Macromolecules
  • ARPAL, Ligurian Regional Agency for Environmental Protection
  • Versalis
  • Henkel
  • Verallia
  • PlasticsEurope-Italia
  • Omya International AG (CH)
  • International Technical Corporate Consultancy (MNE)
  • CENIMAT|i3N & CEMOP/UNINOVA (P)
  • Borealis Group (A)
  • PROMETHEUS Systems (I)

Responsible for internships/placements and career guidance (Responsible at department and MSc level)

The Head of Work Placements and Career Guidance

(Head at Department and Degree Programme level)

 

Responsibilities include:

  • promoting, collecting and managing proposals for work placement activities
  • organising activities to promote career guidance (meetings with companies, etc.)
  • in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Committee, organise the collection of questionnaires and feedback from the organisations where work placements and internships have taken place
  • organise seminars featuring industry experts (in addition to those organised by individual lecturers)  

 

N.B No specific curricular work placements or non-curricular work placements (or internships) leading to the award of ECTS credits are provided for Master’s thesis work carried out at companies and institutions, whether domestic or abroad.

Managers

Program Requirements Assessment Committee

Responsibilities include:

  • establishing and updating admission requirements and the procedures for assessing academic qualifications and individual preparedness
  • to review applications for admission to the Master’s degree programme to verify that the curricular requirements and individual preparation criteria are met
  • advise students on how to meet the admission requirements
  • conducts interviews with prospective students
  • checks that the student has obtained the minimum number of CFU credits required to begin their thesis
  • assists the student in proposing a co-supervisor of their choice and appoints the co-supervisor
  • sets the start date for the dissertation

Committee members

Website manager

Responsibilities include:

  • ensuring that transparency requirements are met
  • updating and verifying the information on the degree programme’s web pages on the DCCI website and facilitating migration to the University’s federated site
  • updates, as far as possible, and verifies the information on the degree programme’s web pages on the University’s federated website (https://corsi.unige.it/corsi/11767/)
  • update and verify the information on the degree programme’s web pages on the DCCI website until it is decommissioned.

Managers

Responsible for coordinating class schedule and exams

Responsibilities include:

  • managing timetables to avoid clashes as far as possible
  • optimise the scheduling of exam dates
  • organise degree ceremonies

Managers

Silvia Vicini

The Head is assisted by the Academic Manager (Grazia Maria Esposito)

Committee for the Assessment of Curriculum Requirements, Study Programmes and Tutoring

Responsibilities include:

  • coordinating induction and academic tutoring activities
  • organise activities to assess students’ prior knowledge
  • organise induction activities for international students

Managers

Marina Alloisio – (representative responsible for appointing main and co-supervisors)

Maila Castellano

Antonio Comite

Dario Cavallo

Orietta Monticelli

Marco Vocciante

 

International Relation Committee

Responsibilities include:

  • promoting and coordinating students on the Erasmus+ programme or other international programmes
  • to promote the internationalisation of the degree programme by encouraging the mobility of outgoing and incoming students and staff through specific international programmes organised by DCCI staff

Contact person

Graduation Commission

Responsibilities and duties:

       - Assesses students during the degree examination session
       - Assesses students in the pre-degree seminar
       - Assesses students at the end of the focus groups

Integrating Components

Responsible for Departmental Quality Assurance (RAQ)

Prof. Massimo Ottonelli – Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry

Counseling Service

The committee:

  • helps students resolve issues that are not strictly academic or technical but which may nevertheless affect their academic performance;
  • acts as an intermediary between students and the psychological support services provided by the University
  • is made up of lecturers and administrative staff with whom students can build a relationship based on mutual esteem, respect and trust, and sufficient sensitivity to allow them to confide in them about personal situations that could jeopardise their academic progress
     

 

Committee members

Course Council Coordinator

Responsibilities and functions:

  • performs all the functions assigned by the University Statute and the University Teaching Regulations
  • coordinates the committees and persons in charge of Course activities
    • .
  • convenes the CdS Council and submits the SUA-CdS, the SMA, the RRCs
    • for approval
  • communicates to the CdS the results of all the activities carried out by the committees and the various activity managers

Contact

Course QA Committee

The Course of Study (CdS) is equipped with a Quality Assurance (QA) system to keep the management processes under control.

It deals with:

    .
  • compiling and updating the Annual Single Form (SUA-CdS)
    • .
  • analysing and compiling the Annual Monitoring Form (SMA)
    • .
  • edit the Cyclic Review Report (RCR) and monitor the progress of the proposed improvement activities
    • .
  • analyse didactic evaluation questionnaires, Almalaurea questionnaires and other information sources
    • (e.g. questionnaires from institutions or host companies)
  • analyse the School Joint Committee report
    • .
  • monitor student careers
    • .
  • analyse reports and requests from students, lecturers and technical-administrative staff in accordance with the procedures established by the University
  • disseminate the culture of the quality of training and self-evaluation
    • within the School
  • in concert with the Commission responsible for internships/internships and orientation to the world of work, organise the collection of questionnaires and opinions of the institutions where internships and internships have been carried out

Members of the commission

Teaching Commission

It deals with:

  • verify the adequacy of teaching facilities and student services
  • verify CFUs in relation to teaching load and progression through semesters
  • revise periodically the admission requirements and the procedures for intermediate and final examinations
  • check the completeness of the information in the teaching records
    • .
  • periodically review the training course on the basis of data and indications deriving from monitoring activities and organise its delivery, also taking into account the needs of facilities and services
  • harmonise the programmes of the training activities
    • .

Members of the commission

Steering Committee (Council)

It deals with:

  • expressing the training needs coming from society, the world of work and culture
  • providing an opinion between the coherence of the study path and specific training activities with the demand for training
  • provide suggestions on the improvement and enhancement of training activities
    • .
  • propose thematic seminars on both technical and intellectual property management or on legislation/regulations and financial issues affecting the technical activities analysed in the course of study
  • propose visits to plants, companies or laboratories
  • suggest joint activities to promote the Study Course
    • .

Members of the commission

And representatives from the following companies:

  • SCI - Liguria Section
    • (Italian Chemical Society - Liguria Section).
  • Chemists professional association
  • ILVA
  • FACI SpA
  • Iplom
  • Infineum
  • Bioindustria L.I.M.
  • Spiga Nord SpA
  • PPG Italia Business Support Srl
  • SACMI Imola S.C.
  • Italian Association for Science and Technology of Macromolecules
  • ARPAL Ligurian Regional Agency for Environmental Protection
    • .
  • Versalis
  • Henkel
  • Verallia
  • PlasticsEurope-Italy
  • Omya International AG (CH)
  • International Technical Corporate Consultancy (MNE)
  • CENIMAT|i3N & CEMOP/UNINOVA (P)
  • Borealis Group (A)
  • PROMETHEUS Systems (I)

Responsible for internships/internships and job orientation

The Head of Internships/Internships and Work Orientation
(Responsible at Department and CSD level)

He is responsible for:

  • promotes, collects and manages proposals for internship/stage activities
  • organising activities to promote orientation to the world of work (meetings with companies, etc.)
    • .
  • in consultation with the QA Commission, organise the collection of questionnaires and opinions of the organisations where internships/internships were carried out
  • organise the seminar activities of industry experts (in addition to what has been done by individual lecturers)

N.B No specific curricular traineeships and non-curricular traineeships (or internships) with recognition of CFUs are envisaged for Master's thesis activities carried out in domestic or foreign companies and institutions.

Responsible

Master's degree admissions committee

It deals with:

    .
  • establishing and updating the admission requirements and the procedures for verifying curricular and individual preparation requirements
  • examine applications for admission to the Master's Degree to verify that the curricular requirements and individual preparation
    • are met
  • advise students on how to meet admission requirements
  • carry out interviews with applicants for enrolment
    • .
  • checks that the student has achieved the minimum number of CFUs to begin the thesis
  • coadvises the student in formulating a proposal for a co-rapporteur of his/her choice and assigns the co-rapporteur
  • defines the thesis start date

Members of the commission

Responsible for the website

It deals with:

    .
  • checks that transparency requirements are met
    • .
  • updates and verifies the information present on the web pages of the degree course on the DCCI website and facilitates the migration to the federated university website
  • updates, as far as possible, and verifies the information present on the Course of Study web pages on the federated Athenaeum website (https://corsi.unige.it/corsi/11767/)
  • updates and verifies the information present on the Course of Study web pages on the DCCI website until it is decommissioned
    • .

Responsible

Responsible for coordinating the timetable of lessons and examinations

It deals with:

  • managing class schedules so as to avoid overlapping as far as possible
  • optimising the distribution of exam dates
    • .
  • organise degree sessions

Responsible

Silvia Vicini

Orietta Monticelli

She is assisted by the Education Manager (Grazia Maria Esposito)

Responsible for tutoring activities

It deals with:

  • coordinating reception and educational tutoring activities
  • organise initial preparation testing activities
  • organise reception activities for foreign students

Responsible

Responsible for international activities

It deals with:

  • promoting and coordinating students from the Erasmus+ programme or other international programmes
  • promote the internationalisation of the School by promoting outgoing and incoming student and lecturer mobility through specific international programmes activated by DCCI lecturers

Contact person

Mauro Giovannini (DCCI Erasmus manager)

Davide Comoretto (international activities)

Graduation Commission

Responsibilities and functions:

  • Evaluates students in the graduation session
  • Evaluates students in the pre-degree seminar
  • Evaluates students at the end of focus groups

Integrating Components

Responsible for Departmental Quality Assurance (RAQ)

Prof. Massimo Ottonelli - Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry

Listening Point

The committee:

  • helps the student solve problems that are not strictly didactic or technical but which may nevertheless affect his or her academic performance;
  • becomes the link between the student and the psychological support services provided by the University
  • is made up of teachers/administrators with whom students can have a relationship of esteem, respect, trust, sensitivity sufficient to confide in personal situations that could compromise the educational pathway

 

Members of the commission