For the Master’s degree students are required to carry out an Advanced Project, specifically a “Capstone Design & Research Project”, which will be prepared and presented in collaboration with fellow students from various specialties. The “Capstone Design & Research Project” addresses topics that reflect the interdepartmental nature of the Program and emphasizes the importance of collaboration under real-world conditions.

Students are divided into groups and tasked with designing a project based on predetermined requirements. This project is intended to integrate the learning outcomes from the Research Methodologies course, allowing students to apply knowledge gained from the various courses they completed throughout the Program to their project. The collaborative nature of the workload of the Advanced Project, encourages knowledge exchange among team members and presents students with the opportunity to translate theory into practical application. In this way, students are better prepared to apply their theoretical knowledge into practical scenarios and gain experience working in a larger team, where each member is required to contribute both individually, and collaboratively towards the common objective of the Design & Research Project integration. In case of failure of one of the three chain courses, the student must register for the project again, staring from module I (POL 604).