Focused lab training

The Focused Lab Training (FLT) is a full laboratory activity course aimed at providing the student with specific training in innovative and advanced technologies and techniques that will improve their laboratory skills. The FLT course can relate to the internship thesis topic or be an option for students to expand their technological knowledge independently on their thesis topic.

1. Choosing the laboratory

A student who plans to do Focused Lab Training must identify a laboratory in which the activity will be performed.
Either an "Internal laboratory" or an "External laboratory" (see below for further information) can be chosen.

Internal laboratory:

External laboratory*:

  • a laboratory external to the Department of Biology but internal to the University of Pisa headed by a faculty member NOT belonging to the Aggregate Council of Biotechnology 
  • a laboratory located at an affiliated external institution

*doing FLT in an external laboratory always requires the identification and assignment of an internal Tutor (chosen among teachers of the Biotechnologies and Applied Artificial Intelligence for Health master’s degree).

2. Application for authorization

After contacting the head of the chosen laboratory, it is necessary to submit the appropriate application by using the following forms*:

  • Internal FLT: Internal FLT request form

  • External FLT: External FLT request form + declaration of the host institution signed by the legal representative (except for Scuola Sant'Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore and CNR). (The declaration must be produced on the letterhead of the host institution and must necessarily contain the name of the legal representative, the details of the student, the start and end dates of the stay, and the reason for the stay at the institution. The declaration must be dated and signed by the legal representative of the host institution)

The forms must be sent to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. E' necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. and cc’ed to the Tutor (and the external Tutor, if any).

In both cases, the laboratory activity will be authorized after the above forms have been sent to the Teaching Unit.

The authorization by the Department's Teaching Unit, as communicated to the student and to the internal/external Tutor by e-mail, replaces in all respects the authorization of the start of the activity by the Aggregate Council of Biotechnology (Resolution No. 85 of 02/07/2024, prot. AOO "BIO" 4009/2024).

Students will be allowed to start attending the Focused Lab Training only after receiving such communication from the Department's Teaching Unit.

3. Features of the activity

Focused Lab Training involves a total of 96 hours of laboratory activities (6 ECTS).

4. Final evaluation

The evaluation method is a report on the FLT activities and/or topics. The features of the report are decided by the FLT supervisor: as an example, it could consist of a written laboratory report of about 5 pages (excluding tables and figures) on the FLT topic or of a seminar given to the research group on the FLT technology. 

The evaluation will consist of a "pass" or "fail" outcome based on the FLT supervisor's judgment. Students will not receive a numerical grade.

At the end of the evaluation process, the internal Tutor will send to the Department's Teaching Unit (Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. E' necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.) the evaluation on the report performed by the student.

  


PERFORMING FLT WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF PISA

  • Department of "Farmacia";
  • Department of "Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia";
  • Department of "Ingegneria dell'Informazione"
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