The Teaching and Research Support Service of the Polo organises and manages the educational activities, and supports the authorities of the academic structures and research activities at the Florence site.

Main Activities

* Support for the organisation and management of the educational activities of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (educational programming of the Faculties, invitations, seminars, educational visits).
* Support for the activities of the Istituto di Studi Avanzati Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
* Support for the institutional activities and for those relating to the functioning and management of the Faculty Council and of the authorities for the PhD courses.
* Management of the competition procedures for the positions of students.
* Management of students' careers: admission, study plans and educational obligations, agreements for theses in joint supervision, discussion of PhD theses, final exams.
* Management of students' off-site study and research activities and support for the Mobility Commission of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences.
* Support for the research activities of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, and support for the research assessment activities in co-ordination with the relative structures at the Pisa site.