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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

Duties and functions:  

  • creates and updates the annual standardized form (SUA-CdS) within the specified deadlines;  
  • analyzes and drafts the Annual Monitoring Form (SMA);  
  • prepares the cyclical review report and monitors the progress of proposed improvement actions;  
  • analyzes reports and requests from students, faculty and TA staff in accordance with procedures established by the University;  
  • disseminates the culture of quality training and self-assessment within the School;  
  • analyzes the teaching evaluation questionnaires, the Almalaurea questionnaires and other sources of information (e.g. questionnaires from institutions or host companies);  
  • analyzes the report of the school's Joint Committee;  
  • monitors the students' careers;  
  • organizes, in collaboration with the Commission in charge of internships/internships and career guidance, the collection of questionnaires and opinions from the institutions where internships and training have been completed. 

Committee members

Teaching Commission

Duties and functions:  

  • regularly reviews the educational pathway based on data and indications resulting from monitoring activities and organizes its implementation, also taking into account the need for facilities and services;  
  • reviews the congruence between the CFUs and the teaching load as well as the progression through the semesters;  
  • periodically reviews the entry requirements and the modalities of the intermediate and final examinations;  
  • harmonizes the programs of educational activities;  
  • checks the completeness of the information in the teaching materials;  
  • checks the adequacy of teaching facilities and services for students 

Committee members

Steering Committee (Advisory Council)

The Steering Committee is the point of contact between the MSc and Civil Society.   

Duties and functions:  

  • Conveys the training needs arising from society, the world of work and culture.  
  • Provides an opinion on the coherence of the MSc and its specific training activities with the demand for training.  
  • Makes proposals to improve and strengthen training activities.  
  • Proposes thematic seminars, either on technical topics, on basic financial concepts, on intellectual property management or on legislation/regulations affecting the technical activities described within the MSc.  
  • Proposes visits to companies, businesses or laboratories;
  • Proposes joint promotional activities for the MSc.

Committee members

Companies: 

  • SCI - Sezione Liguria (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)

Duties and functions:  

  • promotes, collects and manages proposals for internship activities;  
  • organizes, in consultation with the QA Commission, the collection of questionnaires and opinions from the organizations where internships/internships have taken place;  
  • organizes activities to promote orientation in the world of work (meetings with companies, etc.);  
  • promotes, collects and manages proposals for internship/placement activities organizes the seminar activities of industry experts (in addition to the activities of individual lecturers) 

N.B There are no specific curricular internships and non-curricular internships (or internships) with CFU recognition for thesis activities carried out in domestic or foreign companies and institutions. 

Managers

Program Requirements Assessment Committee

Duties and functions: 

  • establishes and updates admissions requirements and procedures for reviewing curricular and individual preparation requirements; 
  • reviews applications for admission to the master's degree program to ensure that both curricular and individual preparation requirements are met; 
  • advises students on how to fulfill the admission requirements; 
  • conducts interviews with applicants for enrollment; 
  • checks whether the student has achieved the minimum number of CFUs to be able to start the dissertation; 
  • assists the student in formulating a proposal for a co-rapporteur of his/her choice; 
  • assigns the co-rapporteur;
  • sets the date for the start of the thesis

Committee members

Website manager

Duties and functions:

  • facilitates the migration to the federated website of the university; 
  • updates, where possible, and verifies the information on the course website on the university's federated website (https://corsi.unige.it/corsi/11767/); 
  • verifies that transparency requirements are met; 
  • updates and verifies the information on the course web pages on the DCCI website until it is decommissioned. 

Managers

Responsible for coordinating class schedule and exams

Duties and functions:

  • manages the timetables in such a way that overlaps are avoided as far as possible; 
  • optimizes the distribution of examination dates; 
  • organizes the graduation ceremonies 

Managers

Tutoring committee

Duties and functions:

  • organizes the first tests for preparation; 
  • organizes reception activities for foreign students 
  • coordinates the reception and tutoring activities

Managers

International Relation Committee

Duties and functions:

  • promotes and coordinates student mobility through the Erasmus+ program or other international programs; 
  • promotes the internationalization of the CdS by coordinating outgoing and incoming student and faculty mobility through specific international programs activated by DCCI faculty 

Contact person

Mauro Giovannini (DCCI Erasmus manager)

Davide Comoretto (international activities)

Graduation Commission

Duties and functions:

  • Assesses students in the graduation session
  • Evaluates 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

 

Duties and functions:

  • consists of teachers/administratives with whom students can build a relationship that includes enough appreciation, respect, trust and empathy to confide in personal situations that could jeopardize their learning progress; 
  • helps the student to solve problems that are not purely didactic or technical in nature, but which may still affect their academic performance; 

 

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