UNINETTUNO Online Master in Strategies and Techniques of Project Management (2019/2020 Edition)

Objectives

The objectives of the Master’ Course in Strategies and Techniques of Project Management deal with the training of professional profiles possessing managerial skills to support project management in the different sectors in which he works. More specifically, the master’s course envisages the training of professional profiles such as Project Controller and Quality Manager for companies and agencies working for big projects.

Among expected results there is the acquisition of economic-managerial tools and skills aimed at cooperation both during the project design and execution phases. Actually the profile of the Project Controller has the task of developing the skills needed to check the project progress and detect any problems to be dealt with as it regards both project progress and the quality of production as well as organization. The Project Controller is also able to report these problems to the supervisor of the project or of parts of it. The Quality Manager possess the skills needed to monitor the company performance against its mission and the attainment of its objectives by maximizing the exploitation of the resources used.

Target students and Entry Requirements

This first-level Master’s Course is addressed to students who earn a three-year university degree in a study course of the Engineering Faculty or a three-year university degree in a study course in the field of Economic Sciences or Statistical Sciences. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to assess applicants earning a three-year university degree in a study course different from those mentioned above.

Training activities

The training activities take place through the platform on: www.uninettunouniversity.net, the first portal across the world in which teaching is delivered in 5 languages: Italian, English, French, Arabic and Greek. In the section related to the Master’s Course in Strategies and Techniques of Project Management, the student can will be able to access all the virtual contents.

The students play an active role in their learning progress and can study whenever and wherever they wish to. In the course of their learning path, the students are guided by an online tutoring system which is able to facilitate their learning and web-based communication process and to supply them with the tools to carry out their study of a specific subject successfully.
Online tutoring is organized in classes of students, through an advanced system of agenda that is able to recognize each individual and obtain the tracking of training activities and a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the learning process of each single student.

How to study

The Internet-based training activities take place in a Web-based macro-area which is called “Didactic Cyberspace”, in the section devoted to the Master’s Course in Strategies and Techniques of Project Management. In the Didactic Cyberspace the training and learning process takes place and accesses are diversified through customized login and password depending on the role played by the different actors of the training process: Professors, Tutors and Students. These three categories of users can access the same information regarding each subject. More specifically, the Professor and Tutor can modify or replace training materials and add new ones for the whole course duration, whereas the student can dispose of an area of his own where he can include data, information and personal notes.
The student can access to:

• The Appointed Teaching Professor’s Page;
• The Tutor’s Page.

On these pages there are the Learning Environments where is possible to access:

• Training Materials which represent the course contents: digitized video lessons including bookmarks allowing for hypertextual and multimedia linking to books, selected bibliographical references, texts of the exercises, lists of selected websites. The system of dynamic bookmarks gives the Internet-based video lessons a hypertextual character allowing different levels of navigation: from one lesson to the other one, among subjects of a single lesson, between the materials referring to the same subject.

• Distance Tutoring. The students enrolled in the Master’s course will be assisted in every step of their study path by Telematic Professors-Tutors. The Telematic Professor-Tutor, represents a guide as well as a constant presence along the Learning Process. The distance Tutoring activities may be carried out in two ways:
  1. in a synchronic manner, by using chats, videochats, video and audio-conferencing, implemented in the Didactic Cyberspace, but also the three-dimensional classroom created on the UTIU Island of knowledge on Second Life.
  2. in a diachronic manner, through tools such as e-mail and discussion forums on the Internet. The discussion forums, related to the topics of a given teaching subject, enable to enlarge dialogue and trigger a collaborative learning and give the opportunity for autonomous thinking on the issue being discussed and on the study activities carried on.

• Virtual Classroom in UNINETTUNO Island of Knowledge on Second Life. On UNINETTUNO (International Telematic University) Island of Knowledge a 3D lecture hall was realized and it is devoted to this master’s courses. In this environment the students and professors/tutors’ avatars interact in the three-dimensional world of UNINETTUNO by their voice. Practice work, assessment tests and videoconferences with the protagonists of the Master’s Course, who will be attending through their avatars, are carried out, as well as real-time practice activities guided by the professors/tutors’ avatars.

In the virtual classroom of Second Life in the UNINETTUNO Island of Knowledge the students and the professors/tutors teach and learn in a collaborative and cooperative way; they build and share knowledge with people belonging to different political, cultural and religious settings, they dialogue, cultural differences are confronted, socialization processes are implemented as well as the creation of new knowledge.

Training activities structuring

This Master’s Course envisages the following modules:

The Master’s Course starts with an introductory virtual class, aimed at describing the distance learning tools and at illustrating the aims and contents of each module. Each participant will be assigned a set of modules based on his prior learning career in order to obtain a total amount of credits equal to 30.  These modules will be delivered in two periods (please see the calendar: modules delivery periods) and at their conclusions the candidates will have to pass a face-to-face written exam (please see the guide to the exams).

The Master’s Course will be structured on four periods (please refer to the Calendar section): the first two ones are devoted to the use of the video lessons and to self-study or supported by academic profiles who are responsible of courses it regards the various distance learning activities. The third period envisages two project works aimed at connecting the training activities carried on in the first two periods of stage activities and the preparation of final dissertation, envisaged for the following and last period; these activities provides approximately 14 ECTS credits. The fourth period is devoted to the internship and to the preparation of the dissertation which correspond, and about 16 ECTS credits, in which the candidate will support a company professional profile and will take part in actual project management operations.  Previous professional activities are eligible for partial recognition as internship activity, only if it is relevant to the Master’s Course issues.

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee of the Master’s Course includes: the Dean of the Engineering Faculty, Prof. Bernardino Chiaia, the Master’s Course Coordinator, Prof. Clemente Cesarano, and professors delivering the modules, Prof. Marta Flamini, Prof. Elpidio Romano, Prof. Domenico Iuliano and Prof. Claudio Zottola.

Calendar

The Master’s Course duration covers a calendar year. It starts on the 17 January 2020 and will end on 22 January 2021.
The calendar of the Master’s Course is structure on the following periods, separated into video lessons use periods and self-study activities and activities supported by the teachers in charge of the modules, exams periods, an internship period and of preparation of the final dissertation

Guide to the Exams

At the end of each delivery period it is envisaged a period of exams on the modules followed during the previous delivery period. In this periods on which the dates of the classroom written exams in the UNINETTUNO head office in Rome, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 39.
The exams dates are notified to the participants with a 15-day prior notice via e-mail.
All the exams take place on the same day. The candidate has to answer open questions or make exercises related to the subjects studies in the video courses. The duration of each exam is one hour for each module.

Admission to the Exam: as for admission to the exams, each course adopts specific criteria that are fixed by the teacher in charge of the module. At the beginning of the module delivery periods the teachers in charge of the modules will communicate to the participants the planning of training activities for the delivery period, the rules to be admitted to the exams and the calendar of the training activities that will be carried on as, for instance, virtual classrooms, testing sessions.

The Project Works
At the end of the training activities period, spent for leaning specialized knowledge for understanding strategies and for the execution of project management techniques, two Work Projects will be launched involving management phases, maintenance scheduling bases on an approached aimed at defining problem-solving models related to the active and pro-active phases; phases of analysis and management of information by the use of suitable information systems.
The two Project Works will be structured on two distinct conceptual steps: the phase of learning of some concepts and the assessment of theoretical models; the phase of realization of one’s own model/final report. In any case, all subject are strongly integrate to one another and they are functional to the preparation of the final reports. This will last one month approximately.

Internship and Final Exam

The fourth period going from the 20/10/2020 to the 22/01/2021 is devoted to an internship period, corresponding to 16 ECTS credits approximately, during which will support a company professional profile and will take part in actual project management operations. It is possible to pass this internship period in company proposed by UNINETTUNO or in an organization directly contacted by the candidate. In any case it is necessary to sign an agreement between UNINETTUNO and the company and the required form can be requested to the coordinator of the Master’s Course. Previous professional activities are eligible for partial recognition as internship activity, only if it is relevant to the Master’s Course issues.

The final exam consist in the presenting a report in which he activates and the experience made during the internship period are described, in the preparation of a thesis reviewing the main relevant studies in the field and in the presentation of the subjects treated in it delivering a synthetic speech in front of an exam commission. Previous professional activities are eligible for partial recognition as internship activity, only if it is relevant to the Master’s Course issues.
The final exam consist in the presenting a report in which the activities and the experience made during the internship period are described, in the preparation of a thesis reviewing the main relevant studies in the field and in the presentation of the subjects treated in it delivering a synthetic speech in front of an exam commission.

Enrolment, Documents and Costs

In order to enroll for this Master’s Course it is possible to contact the Secretariat calling the following number: +39 06 69207670/71.The Master’s fees is 3,000 euro.
* These enrolment fees are exclusively reserved to students residing in Italy. For more detailed information please contact the students secretariat (info@uninettunouniversity.net) or the nearest Technological Pole (technological poles list)

This sum can be paid in two installments, the first one of 2,000 euro upon enrollment and the second one of 1,000 euro by the 10/07/2020, or in a single installment by the 17/01/2021. Upon completion of the enrolment procedure you must send an e-mail to the Secretariat of the Dean ship of the Engineering Faculty at: presidenza.ingegneria@uninettunouniversity.net, including a photocopy of your identity card, the photocopy of the university qualification you earn and a curriculum vitae and based on these documents each candidate will be promptly assigned the courses he has to follow to obtain this title.