Writing your thesis

Requirements and Layout

• Line spacing: 1.5
• Margins: 2 cm of lower, upper, and right margin. 3 cm of left margin.
• Font: Times New Roman 12.

You are expected to write a thesis of roughly 80 pages.

For students in BA (Business Administration) and MEF (Economics and Finance) matriculated after A.Y. 2013/14 and for all students in EI (Entrepreneurship and Innovation), the thesis must be written in English. 

For all other students the thesis language is Italian. If the student with the supervisor’s agreement decides to submit the thesis in another language than Italian, the student must include an abstract in Italian and the supervisor must send a request to the Programme Director (via email to didattica.economia@unipd.it ) prior to the thesis submission deadline motivating such choice.

You must include a “Declaration of Originality” after the cover page and before the index page. The required text is part of the cover page provided below. The student must declare that this work is original and of her/his own and that this work has not been fully or partially submitted previously in any other Italian of foreign university for assessment purposes.

All material and references used during the thesis elaboration must be cited and referred in the main text and included in a separate section “Bibliographical References”.

 

Cover page

Cover page A (https://www.economia.unipd.it/sites/economia.unipd.it/files/FrontespizioA_MAG_4.doc): To be used when the supervisor is a member of the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova, or an external supervisor.

Cover page B (https://www.economia.unipd.it/sites/economia.unipd.it/files/FrontespizioB_MAG_2.doc): To be used when the supervisor is a member of the University of Padova but NOT of the Department of Economics and Management. The student must complete the Department of the supervisor after consulting it on the university’s website: www.didattica.unipd.it

  Thesis submission

Your thesis will be submitted exclusively online. There is no need to submit a printed copy.

The upload of the thesis must be completed within the indicated deadline.
Within the deadline, it is enough that the essay of the thesis has been uploaded: the supervisor can approve it even after the deadline set for the upload.

The file to upload must have the following characteristics:
PDF Format, maximum 40 MB (you can go to https://www.unipd.it/manuali-uniweb and read the instructions provided by the University: “Istruzioni per produrre un documento PDF/A accessibile”).
The file name should be: Surname_Name.pdf.
The first page is the Cover page. See above the paragraph "Cover page" to download the pre-filled model.

Students must upload their thesis by the mentioned deadline in two platforms:

- In Uniweb, in the section dedicated to “Diploma attainment” ("Conseguimento titolo" in Italian). 
Once you have completed your “Thesis title entry process”, the system will display the “Diploma attainment application” button ("Procedi con il Processo di completamento tesi" in Italian). In “Gestion of the attached thesis” ("Gestione allegato definitivo tesi" in Italian) the students will upload their thesis, which will then be approved by the teacher for submission to the Student Careers Office and addition into the student file. 
In the Uniweb field “Attachment name” ("Nome dell’allegato"in Italian) the student must enter: Surname First Name.

On the page https://www.unipd.it/manuali-uniweb the university provides the guidelines for uploading the file (in Italian “Linee Guida Upload documento definitivo per la prova finale”).

- On the dSEA website, through the same procedure used to select the supervisor and the topic (link: http://www.economia.unipd.it/accesso-aree-riservate).

Thesis Title
The title presented on Uniweb when applying for graduation as approved by the supervisor must be reported on the cover page. If the title is updated after the application on Uniweb the supervisor must send an email from her/his unipd email account to conseguimentotitolo.studenti@unipd.it indicating: name, surname, student id number, new title in Italian, new title in English. Colleagues in the corresponding office will update the title.    

ERS questionnaire
The investigation in Moodle is part of the initiatives that the ERS Commission of the "Marco Fanno" Department of Economics and Management has launched as part of a project to monitor and improve the university environment.
The survey consists of multiple choice questions and open-ended questions. In answering, we ask you to evaluate your experience over the years of attending the course of study you are completing.
The Commission guarantees the complete anonymity of respondents. In fact, the survey does not contain elements that allow the identification of the participants.

Confidentiality Commitment
By filling in the confidentiality commitment [download the form here], the student undertakes to use the information he or she may have during the production of his or her dissertation only for the production of the thesis. Compilation of the confidentiality commitment is mandatory for all students. The completed form will be uploaded to the Moodle portal, "Area studenti" > "Servizi alla Didattica - Consegna documentazione laureandi".