The master thesis project aims to extend the student’s academic skills, introduce them to a certain research area and potentially motivate them to continue their research work beyond the completion of their Master’s Degree. This may be achieved not only by exploiting particular skills and knowledge acquired from taught courses but also by enhancing their ability to tackle a novel research area and/or problem.

In addition, it expands the student’s professional skills by developing/improving their ability to research, manage/organise information, think creatively, pursue innovation and report adequately the findings of their research.

After successful completion of the thesis, students will be able to:

• search for appropriate bibliographic sources and summarize the findings of their study in a systematic way
• address difficult problems that include research aspects
• organize actions and take initiatives for project management
• design and develop original ideas in the wider field of information systems and services
• apply research methods, techniques and problem solving algorithms
• evaluate alternative solutions and choose the most suitable one
• communicate the results of the research work in the form of a technical report (thesis text) but also in the form of a presentation

• Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
• Adapting to new situations
• Decision-making
• Working independently
• Working in an international environment
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment
• Production of new research ideas
• Project planning and management
• Criticism and self-criticism
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

The Master thesis project is carried out under the supervision of one of the faculty members and involves – at a first stage – the identification of the research topic/ technological problem to be addressed and the research of literature for existing state-of-the-art. The output of the project, namely the description of the research area, the problem formulation, the solution definition and implementation and the illustration of results and final conclusions and recommendations, is presented in the master thesis.