Prova Finale

Students earn the Master’s degree in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology after successfully completing the final examination, for which students are required to write a dissertation in English, to be presented in front of a Graduation Committee. By writing the dissertation, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills acquired. The dissertation shall be an experimental research work on a specific topic, to be carried out in university research laboratories, or in public or private institutes recognised in the biotechnology sector.
The dissertation shall be written by the student under the guidance of a Supervisor. In order to be admitted to the final examination, the student must have acquired all CFU credits in the training activities included in the Study Plan, except those specifically awarded upon completion of the dissertation.
The Graduation Committee shall evaluate each candidate, based on their achievements throughout the entire degree programme, carefully assessing the degree of consistency between educational and professional objectives, as well as their ability for independent intellectual elaboration, critical thinking, communication skills and general cultural maturity, in relation to the objectives of the programme. 40 CFU are awarded upon completion of the Master’s degree dissertation, which can be presented either in English or in Italian. Master’s degree dissertations can be either internal (written at the University or Verona) or in collaboration with an external institution/body.
For each dissertation, a Dissertation Committee shall be established: this will include one Supervisor, one or more co-supervisors (optional), and two examiners. Any professors belonging to the departments included in the areas of Science and Engineering and Life and Health Sciences of the University of Verona may act as Supervisor.
Researchers from external research institutes, research grant holders, post-doctoral fellowship holders and PhD students may act as cosupervisors.
The examiners, who must be professors in the degree programmes of the University in Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery, or Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, shall be appointed by the 8 Graduation Committee at least 25 days before the final examination, once the student's eligibility to take the final examination has been verified.
Evaluation of the dissertation Students will be given about 30 minutes to present their dissertation.
The Dissertation Committee will evaluate the work based on the following criteria: 1) level of in-depth analysis in relation to the most recent developments in the Molecular and Medical Biotechnologies areas; 2) scientific and/or technological outcomes of the dissertation; 3) student’s critical thinking; 4) student’s experimental development; 5) student’s ability to carry out independent work (this point will not be assessed by the examiners); 6) value of the methodologies used; 7) accuracy in planning and writing the dissertation; 8) communication skills in presenting the dissertation.
Graduation mark The graduation mark (based on a 110-point scale) is a whole value between 66/110 and 110/110 and is calculated by adding together the following elements (then rounding the result to the nearest whole number, e.g. 93.50 => 94; 86.49 => 86): 1) the average of the marks gained in the modules, weighted according to CFU, converted to a 110-point scale; 2) evaluation of the dissertation and the oral presentation during the final examination, based on the following methods: a) a maximum of 11 points will be awarded for the presentation and the dissertation. These will count as follows: 8 points awarded by the Dissertation Committee, which will evaluate the dissertation and presentation by assigning each of the points 1-8 listed above a coefficient between 0 and 1 (fractional coefficient with one decimal place); b) 3 points will be awarded by the Dissertation Committee by unanimous decision, based on the student’s curriculum vitae.
Specifically, in order to award the final mark, the Committee will take into account the following: any cum laude honours obtained in the exams taken during the degree programme; participation in internships officially recognised by the University; elective modules; and the achievement of the degree in a time that is shorter than the normal duration of the degree programme.
Students who are awarded less than 11 points for their dissertation may be awarded an extra point, at the discretion of the Graduation Committee, if they have taken part in international mobility programmes.
c) the sum of the points resulting from (a) and (b).
If the resulting score is 110/110 or above, the Graduation Committee may decide to award cum laude honours, in which case the student 9 must have: · a minimum weighted average mark of 104/110 (without rounding up) or · a minimum weighted average mark of 102/110 (without rounding up) and must have been awarded cum laude honours in at least 3 modules during the degree programme. Under the current legislation, cum laude honours are conferred by unanimous decision of the committee.
External dissertations An external dissertation is a work carried out in collaboration with an institution/body other than the University of Verona. In this case, the topic of the dissertation must be agreed in advance with a Supervisor from the LM-9 degree programme. In addition, the student must indicate at least one co-supervisor belonging to the external institution/body, who will support the student during the work on the dissertation. The Supervisor and the co-supervisors must be indicated in the online graduation application.
The scientific outcomes of the dissertation will be available to all parties involved. In particular, the contents and results of the dissertation are to be considered public  

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