Student's Guide
Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC) - Corso interuniversitario
Degree class
LM-92
Degree required
Laurea I Livello
Admission
Numero Programmato Locale
Language
ENG
Faculty
Department
Scienze Sociali
The programme at a glance
The programme at a glance
The European Joint Master’s Programme in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international study programme designed to train a new generation of highly qualified socio-digital innovators capable of leading and managing digital transformation processes in diverse societal contexts.
Offered as part of the EURIDICE Project, co-founded by the European Union and born within the AURORA Alliance, DIGISOC combines advanced digital competencies with in-depth social innovation knowledge, focusing particularly on three critical sectors: Education, Communication, and Culture.
DIGISOC is an initiative of 3 Awarding Universities – the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the Palacky University of Olomouc (Czechia) – which recognize the joint title with the support of 3 Partner Universities – the Pavla Jozefa Safarika V Kosiciach University (Slovakia), the University Lusòfona of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University Paris-Est Créteil (France).
DIGISOC is the first European Joint Master’s Programme of the University of Naples Federico II and represents a unique initiative of its kind:
- an excellence-oriented, research-based, and highly interdisciplinary teaching programme;
- a diverse learning environment, innovative teaching methods, and international mobility;
- a joint transnational education, resulting in a joint degree and joint micro-credentials;
- a hybrid, seamless, collaborative and challenge-based educational environment.
The Study Programme has 3 relevant key features:
- Summer School and International Mobility, that offer to students the opportunity to interact with renowned European scholars and professionals in the field of socio-digital innovation;
- Collaboratorium and Hybrid Learning, a new educational concept based on a learning environment made of interoperable digital solutions and a phygital infrastructure (physical and digital);
- International Internship and Service Learning, that offer to students the opportunity to develop a social innovation project or, alternatively, be involved in an International Service-Learning programme, that allow them to engage in organised service activities that address community needs.
Job opportunities
Job opportunities
DIGISOC graduates will be trained as responsible professionals, as well as future leaders, with a strong international perspective, motivated and capable of facing new social challenges that digitalisation poses to our societies but also of exploiting the opportunities that it offers to promote forms of social innovation that respond to an ethical, sustainable and inclusive perspective. Graduates acquire a comprehensive set of skills that blend specialised technical knowledge with the ability to think critically and act ethically. This unique combination prepares professionals for a wide range of career paths in consulting, digital innovation and transformation, project and product management, research, as well as academic and leadership roles at a national and international level in public, private and third sector organisations in these fields.
Admission and prerequisites
Admission to the programme and prerequisites
DIGISOC is open to 90 students: 30 places are available in each universities that award the degree (30 in Italy, 30 in Austria, 30 in Czechia). Students are enrolled in all three universities, but are required to attend courses in person at only one of them.
To apply for DIGISOC, candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; be fluent in English, both written and spoken, with a level of competence of at least B2 of the CEFR.
Candidates may apply sub conditione if they have not obtained their Bachelor’s degree within the application deadline, provided they declare that they will obtain it by 30/07/2025; they have not obtained certification of their English language proficiency within the application deadline, provided they declare that they will obtain it by the date of enrolment.
More detailed information on the admission requirements, the methods of participation and the documents required are available in the Call for Application (version ENG, ITA).
Applications are made exclusively online, using the DIGISOC Application Form no later than 2:00 p.m. on June 20, 2025. Participation is free.
The Admission test is scheduled on July 2nd, 2025 and will be held remotely.
The study plan in detail
Study plan
The Study Plan consists of 120 ECTS credits, culminating in the writing of a Master’s thesis. It incorporates both compulsory and elective modules, as well as short term mobility phases (Summer Schools), provisions for individual learning paths, internships and service learning, respecting the needs and interests of a diverse European student body.
DIGISOC is conducted in English and is primarily offered in a hybrid format. The Study Plan is structured as follows:
Year I (60 ECTS)
- Joint Summer School I (8 ECTS)
- Theorising Digital Society (12 ECTS)
- Global Citizenship and Sustainable Futures for the Digital Age (12 ECTS)
- Digital Technologies for Social Innovation (12 ECTS)
- Design for Social Innovation (8 ECTS)
- Joint Summer School II (8 ECTS)
Year II (60 ECTS)
- One course chosen among the following:
– Culture and Digital Humanism (20 ECTS)
– Public Pedagogy for Digital Citizenship (20 ECTS)
– Digital Communication (20 ECTS)
- Elective Modules (10 ECTS)
(to be chosen preferably from a portfolio of courses offered by DIGISOC Associated Universities)
- International Service Learning or Internship (10 ECTS)
- Master’s thesis (20 ECTS)
Detailed informations about the Study Plan are available at this link: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu/study-plan/
Additional study plan information
- Joint Summer School I is offered as an on-site event. It is held at the opening of the first Year and is offered jointly by all degree-awarding Universities. Held in turn in one of the degree-awarding Universities campuses, it serves as an introduction to key themes of the study programme.
- Year I Compulsory Modules and Year II Specialising and Elective Modules are held in hybrid mode (in presence and in blended/flipped mode) by teams of lecturers belonging to the degree-awarding and associated Universities.
- At the end of Year I, students will have to choose between one of three choices for Joint Summer School II, dedicated to education, public, social and political communication or cultural industries. Joint Summer School II is conducted as an on-site event.
- In Year II, students have the possibility to acquire 10 ECTS credits selecting between a vast choice of Elective Modules. DIGISOC provides a recommended list of Elective Modules offered by its Associated Universities.
- In Year II students will have the opportunity to carry out a Service-Learning activity or, alternatively, an International Internship at one of the companies and organisations involved in the EURIDICE Project (which counts among its 27 partners various SMEs and Institutes of Research and cultural promotion with a high rate of digital innovation) or other affiliated international bodies.
Traineeship opportunities
Traineeship opportunities
During the study programme, students are required to obtain 10 ECTS opting for an International Internship or an International Service-Learning activity.
- InternationalInternship: Students will carry out a social innovation project linked to the specialisation path chosen at thebeginning of Year II. Although a list of possible projects will be available, students may come up with their own ideas. Students must find a supervisor fortheir social innovation project from the available lecturers at one of the Degree-Awarding Universities.
- International Service-Learningprogrammes allow students to engage in organised service activities that address community needs; get involved in practical learning experiences and cross-cultural interactions; participate in regular reflection sessions; gain a deeper appreciation of global and intercultural issues.
In sum, they allow a learner to become a global citizen, i.e. an active player in global development efforts.
For further information on Internship and International Service Learning see: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu/internship-and-service-learning/
International exchange programmes - Erasmus programme
International exchange programmes (Erasmus programme)
DIGISOC is an international joint master’s programme which guarantee, by desing, internationla exchanges among students and faculty members. In addition, each DIGISOC student can spend part of his/her university career in another European country, living a unique experience of cultural and personal enrichment thanks to the Erasmus+ Program and/or the training opportunities offered by the EURIDICE Project (see www.euridice.eu) and the participation of the DIGISOC Universities in the European University Aurora Alliance (https://aurora-universities.eu).
Customizing the study plan
Customizing the study plan
DIGISOC students have the opportunity to customize his/her training path for 10 CFU, taking free choice courses and exams among a catalogue of Elective Modules.
DIGISOC students will also have the opportunity to undertake an International Internship or an International Service Learning activity at accredited institutions and SMEs.
For further information on Elective Modules see: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu/study-plan/
Graduation thesis and final exam
Graduation thesis and exam
DIGISOC Master’s thesis involves the preparation, presentation and oral discussion of a comprehensive work on a topic chosen by the student and concerning a topic consistent with the study plan. Students can decide to carry out the thesis in one of the Universities that award the joint degree.
Each student is assigned a supervisor. The supervisor defines the thesis project together with the candidate, facilitates its design and realisation, and approves the final draft.
The Master’s thesis can take the form of a written paper or even a socio-digital innovation project/product/prototype, also developed as part of the internship or International Service-Learning activities carried out during the training course.
The discussion of the final exam takes place before a Commission in which the supervisor participates.
For further information see: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu/study-plan/master-thesis/
Orientation to incoming students
Orientation to incoming students
The Degree Programme organizes guidance initiatives for incoming students in coordination with associate universities, the partners of the EURIDICE Project and the AURORA Alliance.
The calendar of guidance initiatives can be consulted at the link: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Tutoring and counseling
Tutoring and counseling
DIGISOC students will benefit from tutorship and counseling services offered by qualified personell from the degree awarding universities along the two years of the study programme. Each DIGISOC student can request the assignment of a Tutor, nominated among the programme teachers, whose role is to welcome, guide and support the student in all phases of the learning path.
For further information see: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Career orientation and job placement
Career orientation and job placement
The Degree Programme organizes career guidance and job placement initiatives for its graduates in coordination with associate universities, the partners of the EURIDICE Project and the AURORA Alliance.
The calendar of career guidance and job placement initiatives can be consulted at the link: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Application timeline
2025 Application timeline
- April 14: Applications open.
- June 20: Applications close. Outstanding documents, such as degree certificates, may be submitted until the end of July.
- July 02: Admission Test. One week before the test, all candidates participate in a technical check to resolve any potential issues.
- July 10: Communication of test results.
- July 17: Admitted candidates confirm their acceptance of enrolment by email to euridice@unina.it
- August 01 (No later than): Admitted candidates will receive detailed instructions for the payment of tuition fees.
- September 01: Deadline for payment of fees.
If places remain available
- September 08 (No later than): Publication of the list of eligible candidates that will be allocated to remaining places.
- September 15: Eligible candidates must complete their enrolment.
Further deadlines (deadlines for submitting study plans, deadlines for submitting ERASMUS applications, etc.) will be described on the DIGISOC website: www.digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Courses and exams
Academic Calendar: courses and exams
The 2025-2026 DIGISOC academic calendar is structured as follows:
- I Semester: 1st October 2025 – 19th December 2025
- I Exam Session 2026: 7th January 2026 – 27th February 2026
- II Semester: 2nd March 2026 – 22nd May 2026
- II Exam Session: 25th May 2026 – 20th July 2026
- III Exam Session: 1st September 2026 –18th September 2026
- IV Exam Session: 7th January 2027- 22nd February 2027
For a detailed academic calendar, DIGISOC students can check the degree programme website: www.digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Timetable
Course Timetable
DIGISOC students can check the detailed Course Timetable and the last updates on the degree programme website: www.digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Graduation dates
Graduation dates
DIGISOC students can check the detailed Graduation Dates Timetable and the last updates on the degree programme website: www.digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Contact persons
Emiliano
Grimaldi
Degree Programme Director0812535831
emiliano.grimaldi@unina.it
Giorgia
Di Lisio
Contact person for International Students0812535806
giorgia.delisio@unina.it
Beatrice
Fiore
Contact person for training activities0812535880
beatrice.fiore@unina.it
Other persons
Contact persons
Degree Programme Director: Prof. Emiliano Grimaldi; Phone: +39 0812535831; e-mail: emiliano.grimaldi@unina.it
Contact person for International Students: Giorgia Di Lisio; Phone: +39 0812535806, e-mail: giorgia.delisio@unina.it
Contact person for training activities: Beatrice Fiore, Phone: +39 081-2535880, e-mail: beatrice.fiore@unina.it
Contact person for student guidance: Fabrizio Di Meo, Phone: +39 081-2535884, email: fabrizio.dimeo@unina.it
Representative of the student body: To be appointed during the academic year 2025-2026
Student Administration Offices: Beatrice Fiore, Fabrizio Di Meo, Phone: +39 0812535884, e-mail: fabrizio.dimeo@unina.it
Services for students with special needs and with specific learning disabilities:
SINAPSI
Website: https://www.sinapsi.unina.it/home_en
E-mail: sinapsi@unina.it
Other contact persons:
For all questions about the DIGISOC Joint Master’s Programme write to: euridice@unina.it
Links
Sites and links
Administrative Site:
- University of Naples Federico II – Department of Social Sciences, Vico Monte della Pietà 1, 80138, Naples
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck – Faculty of Economics and Statistics
- Univerzita Palackého V Olomouci – Faculty of Law
Lectures Site:
- Department of Social Sciences, Campus San Giovanni, via Nuova Villa, 80146, Naples
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck – Faculty of Economics and Statistics
- Univerzita Palackého V Olomouci – Faculty of Law
Connections: 40.83772629545653, 14.304010748994534
Degree programme website: https://digitalsociety4innovation.eu
Department websites:
https://www.scienzesociali.unina.it
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/econstat/
School website: https://www.scuolasus.unina.it
University website: https://www.unina.it
Orientation website: https://www.orientamento.unina.it
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