The master's thesis (TFM) is compulsory, is worth 18 ECTS (450h) and is carried out in a company, organisation or excellent research group in Molecular Biology and/or Biomedicine.
Academic information
Assignment of places
Inquiries on bachelor's-thesis places and UdG-tutor assignations: Master's Thesis Platform
Master's thesis report and defence
Deadlines:
Master’s Thesis Call 2025-2026
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Report submission
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Report defence
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June
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22 June
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1 - 2 July
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September
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7 September
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16 September
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* The deadline for submitting the Master's Thesis (TFM) to the platform is 11 pm (hard-copy format cannot be accepted).
Submitting reports
The thesis must be submitted as a single electronic document, preferably in PDF format, through the TFGM platform.The PDF of the thesis must be uploaded to the TFM app and saved in the following format: surname(s).name.You need to bear in mind that the Final Master’s Project preceded by the Final Master's Project Cover Sheet, which must state the title and the author of the work, the date of submission, and the name of the master's degree course.
* At the time of submission via the platform, both the author of the work and their tutor - with the approval of the tutor if applicable - must state whether or not they authorise making it publicly available in the UdG library, in the cases mentioned in article 7 of the UdG framework regulations on the TFG and the Final Master’s Project.The thesis tutor will need to validate (or not) the defence of the work via the TFGM platform.
Evaluation
The academic tutor of the UdG evaluates the TFM (they are advised to get in touch with the company tutor to agree on the evaluation), focusing on evaluating the student’s skills (30%), and the designated evaluation panel appraises the written thesis report (35%) and the presentation and defence (35%) of the work.
Instructions (content and format)
The TFM entails a project, study or research work developed by the student in which they apply, integrate and develop the knowledge and skills required in some aspect of molecular biology and/or biomedicine.The TFG is aimed at evaluating the skills associated with the degree and concludes with the presentation of a written thesis, its public defence, evaluation and grading.
Written TFM report
A report on the work between 25 and 50 pages long will have to be deposited.The report must include the following sections: summary in two languages, Catalan or Spanish and English (between 2,000 and 3,000 characters including spaces), reflections with the gender perspective, introduction, goals, methodology, results, discussions (results and discussion can be written up together in a single section), conclusions and bibliography.The report can be written in Catalan, Spanish or English.
Remember that a front page (cover) will have to be included, before the contents of the summary and report, stating clearly the work’s title and author, the details of the tutor (and co-tutor, where applicable) and the company or institution the work was carried out in.
Public defence of the TFM
The student will have 15 minutes to outline the work and a further 10 minutes for questions and answers.The defence must be based on the explanation of the objectives, the techniques carried out and the discussion of results (whether positive or negative), placing them in the context of the laboratory where the work was carried out.The panel will evaluate the written report and the student’s oral defence.Each of the two scores will represent 35% of the final TFM mark.