The Department and the University provide useful tools for new students:
Tutorato formativo* (TF) is a program of activities and tutoring meetings for the 1st year students. The program was born on the initiative of the Information Engineering Department and which is now also implemented by other three-year study courses of the University of Padova.
The program aims to provide support to first year students in order to:
- encourage integration into the university context and support the student throughout the course of study;
- enhance some transversal skills useful for the specific course of study;
- accompany the student in the planning and definition of their training and professional project.
The course includes a weekly meeting (1 hour), excluding holidays and exam periods.
The meetings are divided into:
- Tutoring of Services: the University Services meet students, guiding them to use the activities proposed by the University (libraries, Erasmus, fees, etc.)
- Tutoring and peer tutoring: the students, divided into small groups, work on transversal skills (Meetings with experts on the study method; participation in university life; the development of problem solving strategies; etc.), with the support and coordination or a teacher of the degree course (teacher tutor) or a student of the years following the first (student tutor).
* the Tutorato Formativo activities are held in Italian
Junior Tutors are students of the last years of master’s degrees, doctoral students or postgraduates, with a particularly brilliant university career. Their task is to provide information and resolve doubts and problems that students encounter in their university life, supporting them in organizational and didactic difficulties (study plans, preparatory exams, relations with academic bodies, with the secretariat, etc. .).
Junior tutors for the School of Engineering:
- organize study groups for the most demanding courses,
- assist students with clarifications on English language texts and on the preparation needed to deal with them,
- collaborate with the teachers of specific courses to promote learning, they help students move around the university world by helping them to contact the competent services for their various needs,
- propose other initiatives to improve study and personal well-being;
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Just contact the Junior Tutors, through this page.
The program aims to provide support to first year students in order to:
- promote integration into the university context and support the student throughout the course of study;
- enhance some transversal skills useful for the specific course of study;
- accompany the student in the planning and definition of their training and professional project.
- The course includes a weekly meeting of about one hour, excluding holidays and exam periods.