Master's Degree Final Projects

Objective and fundamental features of the MFP

In the Master's degree final project, the students must show their research proficieny and capacity to make relevant and original/innovative contributions to the field of digital culture, either through basic research or creation-research works. The MFP must be an original work, under the guidance of a tutor.

The final projects of the Master’s Degree in Digital Culture can be oriented to one of the following three modalities:

  • Basic research and PhD proposals
  • Applied or practice-based research
  • 'Challenges' modality (based on proposals from partners and the teaching staff)

Final projects can be carried out individually or in groups (see the specific criteria for each modality).

During December, students must send their MFP proposals, or express their interest in getting involved in one of the projects of the 'challenges' modality, through online forms to which they will have access. For more information on the MFP modalities and sending MFP proposals (or requesting to participate in the 'challenges' modality), consult the page “MFP Modalities”. For more details on these issues, consult the document "Guide for preparing the MFP".

 

MFP Modalities

The MFP is carried out under the supervision of the student tutor assigned by the Master's coordinator during the second term. The MFP can be taught by doctors who teach in the Master's Degree, Department doctors, UPF doctors with co-supervision of Department doctors and non-UPF doctors with co-supervision of Department doctors.

The MFP must be submitted within the deadlines established in the Regulations:

Deposit until June 19. Extensions are not allowed. Students who do not present or do not pass the MFP will be able to re-enrol in it the following year, with the corresponding registration surcharges and as long as they meet the requirement of permanence and maximum of calls.

The MFP can be written in Catalan, Spanish or English

The MFP must be defended within the deadlines established in the Regulations:
The public presentation and defence will take place during the 8th, 9th and 10th of July (schedules will be specified by the coordination of the master's degree). This is the web where schedules.The period between the submission and public presentation of the project will never be less than fifteen calendar days.  

Only for students who are awarded a grade equivalent to excellent (9 or higher):

Authorization for the paper to be deposited at the Repositori Electrònic de la Recerca de Catalunya (RecerCat). Instructions below according to your situation:

a) Students from Spain (holding a DNI) should deliver it through this link of the Electronic Site. By means of this site you will be able to sign it digitally.
b) Students from abroad who cannot obtain a valid digital certification should sign the document and send it scanned to [email protected]
It must be presented to the Secretariat of the Department of Communication ([email protected]):
 
  1. Form for the delivery of the Master's Final Project
  2. A copy of the master's degree in PDF format sent to the master's Moodle platform, indicating in the subject MFPname.surname (in the case of group Final Projects, only put the name of one of the members in the title of the file) (Maximum of 40 MB)
  3. In case of being awarded a 9 or higher, the regulations require the project to be published in RECERCAT, the repository of digital research documents from universities and research centres in Catalonia, with the aim of increasing their reach (see the Publication of the work section).
The final evaluation of the MFP will be a presentation of the work document and other possible creative pieces (prototypes, etc.), and the oral defence of the project. The evaluation panel will be made up of three teaching and research staff members from the UPF Communication Department (plus, optionally, in the case of 'challenges' projects, a representative of the collaborating entity). The panel will give a grade that takes into account the following elements:
  • Quality of the project (75% of the panel's final grade) 
  • Oral presentation (25% of the panel’s final grade)

The evaluation of the 'quality of the project' will take into account the tutor's assessment in relation to the student's work process.

In the case of group projects, the mark will correspond to certain specificities:
 
  • The overall assessment of the project, according to the parameters indicated above ('quality of the project' + 'oral presentation'), with a weight of 50% of the final grade of each member of the group (a common group grade, shared by all members).
  • Individual assessments of each member, following the same parameters but applied individually ('quality of the project' + 'oral presentation'), with a weight of 50% for the final grade of the student in question.

The project will be publicly defended in front of an evaluation panel composed by three doctoral professors appointed by the Department:

  • The tutor of the project (as president of the panel)
  • Two doctoral professors chosen by the master's degree coordinator.
All types of Master's Degree Final Projects must include:
  • Cover with:
  1. Document title.
  2. Author or authors of the document.
  3. Tutor.
  4. Date of publication: Course 20 - / -
  5. The name of the collection: Master's Degree Final Project in Digital Culture and Emerging Media
  6. Name of the subcommunity: Department of Communication
  7. Name of the University: Pompeu Fabra University
  • The first page must indicate:
  1. Type of work/project modality: (A) Basic research (specify: journal article / research dissertation / PhD proposal) // (B) Applied or practice-based research // (C) Challenge-oriented project
  2. Summary: with a maximum length of 150 words in the language of the document.
  3. Keywords: A list of keywords about the content, with a maximum length of 200 characters. 

Digital format

The size limit of the  digital version of the working document is 40Mb per file. The document must be in PDF format.