Description
The pursuit and completion of a master's thesis or field study project is mandatory and takes place during the third semester of the program. The aforementioned options (either a thesis or one that includes a field study project) will have equal significance and carry the same number of credit units, as specified in the operating regulations of the program.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Master’s Thesis / Field Study Project, students will be able to:
- Identify, define and investigate a complex research question, innovation challenge, or applied problem within the fields of innovation, technology, culture, and the creative industries.
- Design and implement an appropriate research or practice-based methodology, selecting suitable qualitative, quantitative, experimental, design-led, or mixed methods approaches.
- Conduct independent and original inquiry, demonstrating initiative, critical judgement, and the capacity to manage a substantial self-directed project from conception to completion.
- Collect, analyse, interpret and synthesize data, evidence, literature, and stakeholder insights using relevant academic, professional, and technological tools.
- Produce original knowledge, creative outputs, prototypes, strategic recommendations, or applied solutions that contribute meaningfully to academic understanding or professional practice.
- Integrate interdisciplinary perspectives from business, technology, design, culture, media, entrepreneurship, and social sciences in order to address multifaceted real-world challenges.
- Demonstrate ethical awareness and professional responsibility in relation to research conduct, data management, intellectual property, inclusion, sustainability, and social impact.
- Plan, organize and manage time, resources, milestones, and risks effectively throughout a long-term project lifecycle.
- Critically evaluate findings, limitations, and future opportunities, showing reflective thinking and the ability to refine arguments or project outcomes.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively through a professionally structured written dissertation, portfolio, report, prototype documentation, or equivalent final deliverable.
- Present and defend project outcomes orally to academic and/or professional audiences using appropriate visual, analytical, and narrative techniques.
- Demonstrate readiness for professional practice, doctoral study, entrepreneurship, or leadership roles in innovation, technology, cultural, and creative sectors through the successful completion of a capstone-level project.
General Competences
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
- Adaptability to new situations
- Decision-making
- Working independently
- Team work
- Working in an international environment
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Production of new research ideas
- Project planning and management
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Respect for the natural environment
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Criticism and self-criticism
- Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
- Design, Management, and Implementation of Innovation, Technology, Digital Artifacts, Creative and Cultural Assets
- Creativity
Key Information towards the preparation of the Master’s Thesis / Field Study Project
- The Master’s Thesis or Field Study is compulsory and takes place after the completion of the courses, during the third (3) semester. Students of the program can choose instead of a research thesis to conduct an Internship in the form of a Field Study Project in a company-provider in order to solve real problems related to the subject/topic of their Thesis. The above choice will have the same weight and the same Credits as the Master’s thesis. The detailed conditions and the procedure for the preparation of the thesis/field study project are set out in the Study Guide of the program or in the specific Guide for the Preparation of the Master’s Thesis.
- The right to supervise Master’s theses is granted to the lecturers of par. a) to f) of par. 1 of article 83 of Law 4957/2022 provided that they hold a doctoral degree. By decision of the Assembly of the Department, the supervision of theses/field study projects may also be assigned to members of the of the Department (ΔΕΠ / ΕΕΠ / ΕΔΙΠ), who have not undertaken teaching work in the Postgraduate Program (par. 3. Article 83 of Law 4957/2022). In exceptional cases of objective inability to exercise supervisory duties for a long period of time or the existence of another important reason, the Assembly of the Department may, after justifying its decision, replace the supervisor or Member of the Three-Member Examination Committee.
- Specific issues related to the writing of the Thesis are defined in the Guide for the Preparation of the Master’s Thesis, which is issued by decision of the Assembly of the Department and is posted on the website of the Postgraduate Program.
- The language of writing the Master’s thesis (with or without the inclusion of a Field Study Project) is English.
- In order for the MSc thesis (with or without the inclusion of a Field Study Project) to be evaluated, the postgraduate student must present and support it before the Three-Member Examination Committee. The presentation and examination can be done in person or with digital assessment methods.
- In case of failure in the examination of the thesis/field study project or its non-timely submission, the student may resubmit the Thesis once again, not earlier than 3 months, nor later than 6 after the initial submission. In case of a second failure, the student is deleted from the Program following a decision of the Assembly of the Department.