Quality assurance
Review Committee
In accordance, with the practices that are already in place for undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the AVA3 Quality Assurance System has been formally extended to doctoral education. This system provides a framework to analyze activities, monitor outcomes, and propose improvements aimed at enhancing the organization, effectiveness, and overall quality of PhD programs.
All PhD programs will be regularly monitored and assessed as part of a continuous quality improvement cycle. A Review Commitee is established to address the tasks of Self Evalutation of the PhD course producing annually two main documents:
- the Annual Monitoring Report
- the Self-Assessment Report
These reports are used for internal evaluation. More information can be found here.
The Review Commitee is composed by:
University of Florence,
Head of the PhD program
E-mail: stefano.berretti@unifi.it
University of Florence
E-mail: pietro.pala@unifi.it
University of Pisa
E-mail: pericle.perazzo@unipi.it
University of Siena
E-mail: franco.scarselli@unisi.it
University of Florence,
Administrative staff
E-mail: simona.altamura@unifi.it
University of Florence,
Student representative
E-mail: chiara.albisani@unifi.it
University of Florence,
Student representative
E-mail: leonardo.paroli@unifi.it
Steering Committee/Advisory Board
For improving the PhD program, opinions and proposals are gathered from the internal interested parties (University Government System, Departments, Courses of Study, Quality Assurance, Evaluation Unit...), and the national and international comparison with external stakeholders. To this end, the PhD program consults, at least once per year, a Steering Committee, which is formed for all the bachelor, master and PhD programs at the Dept. of Information Enginneering of UniFI, and a restricted Advisory Board.
The Advisory Board is responsible for expressing opinions on the design and updating of training programs, in line with the most advanced research trends.
The Advisory Board is composed by:
University of Florence,
Head of the PhD program
E-mail: stefano.berretti@unifi.it
University of Haute Alsace
E-mail: maxime.devanne@uha.fr
University College Dublin
E-mail: alessio.ferrari@ucd.ie
AIDIA srl
E-mail: luca.angioloni@aidia.it
SPHERA srl
E-mail: francesco.lombardi@aidia.it
Municipality of Florence
E-mail: leonardo.ricci@comune.fi.it
SISVALDAT
The SISValDidat platform collects PhD students' feedbacks. Results of the surveys carried out by PhD students can be found online at this link.
STUDENT's VOICE
The University of Florence provides students with a dedicated web platform designed to listening to their needs: The Student’s Voice link.
Students can anonymously submit reports, suggestions, complaints, or compliments about their PhD Programme.
All submissions are handled by the Chair of the PhD Programme. After assessing any critical issues and collaborating with the relevant parties, the Chair proposes the most effective solutions and provides a prompt feedback to the student.
Detailed instructions on how to use The Student's Voice are available in the online user manual, which can be accessed directly through the application.
For any additional inquiries, please feel free to contact the School by email at indirizzodottorato@unifi.it or technical support at studentsvoice@unifi.it
ALUMNI UNIFI
PhD students are incentivated to partcipate to the UNIFI alumni.
Student Representatives
Students specific instances can also be veichulated by the Student Representatives:
University of Florence,
Student representative
E-mail: chiara.albisani@unifi.it
University of Florence,
Student representative
E-mail: leonardo.paroli@unifi.it