Digital Sovereignty
With Riccardo Palombo , Moreno Razzoli “ morrolinux ” and Niccolò Venerandi “ NiccoLovesLinux ”.
I3S Insieme
IT
Student elections 2026-2028 · I3S Faculty Assembly
Let's imagine and build a better faculty together!
From the 2024-2026 term
A key result
By coordinating a petition backed by 247 signatures, we got rooms S1 and T1 to stay open for studying whenever they are not being used for lectures or other official activities.
Check availability and opening hours →In the Computer Science Degree Council (CAD) we opposed, from its very first presentation on 21 March 2024, the proposal to limit the number of extraordinary exam sessions each student could apply for. We challenged a restriction not provided for by the University Regulations and kept raising the issue formally, refusing to accept that a local decision could arbitrarily restrict students' rights.
Through discussions with the University Teaching Commission and the Student Ombudsperson, backed by the official minutes of the central governing bodies obtained through a freedom-of-information request, in March 2026 we got the limit removed for good. Until then, we had still worked to secure alternative ways for students to apply for all the sessions they were entitled to.
In October 2026 we secured a further concrete safeguard: for students who meet the requirements, a regular booking on InfoStud is enough. Not filling in the participation form, which had very tight deadlines, can no longer prevent anyone from sitting the exam.
Through the University's call for student cultural and social initiatives, we organised talks with high-profile guests, gathered suggestions on topics and content, and made recordings and materials available.
With Riccardo Palombo , Moreno Razzoli “ morrolinux ” and Niccolò Venerandi “ NiccoLovesLinux ”.
A talk on freedom in the digital society, born from one of our initiatives.
With Lorenzo Faletra “Palinuro”, creator of ParrotOS , and other guests from the free software world.
A workshop born from a proposal collected directly from the student community.
We'll collect proposals for seminars, workshops, conferences and other initiatives to submit to the next calls.
Our approach
It means we can judge every proposal on its merits, without having to defend the interests of associations or groups outside the Faculty.
Talking with every student group and with the Faculty's governing bodies whenever it helps achieve results that benefit students.
Information, groups and opportunities shouldn't depend on being a member of a student association.
Collecting reports and proposals directly, following them up, and clearly communicating what was done and what the outcome was.
I3S Faculty Assembly
You are electing the student representatives in the Faculty Assembly, so that students have a voice in the decisions that directly shape their university experience.
It brings together four Departments and coordinates shared activities and services, from teaching to spaces.
Its Departments are:
Most of the representatives' work happens in the Faculty Commissions, where students' problems are followed over time and brought to the attention of those responsible for teaching, spaces, services and opportunities.
The hands-on work
This is where observations and priorities turn into discussion, proposals and action on every aspect of university life.
Programme 2026-2028
Collecting problems, proposals and feedback on the Faculty's degree programmes, following how they are handled and taking them all the way to the relevant bodies and offices.
You can reach us any day at i3sinsieme@studenti.uniroma1.it , through the I3S Insieme Telegram channel and, after the elections, also through an official Instagram account for the list, which will offer another way to get in touch.
Key updates on the requests we submit, their status and their outcomes, published on our Telegram channel , followed by over 1,000 members, so that our work as representatives stays verifiable and accessible.
After the elections we'll also launch an official Instagram account for the list, to reach students who are more active there with content suited to the format, and to offer another way to contact us via Instagram.
Securing official channels to collect issues and feedback on teaching and forward them to the relevant Commissions, including anonymously.
We want to propose a system, modelled on those already used at other universities, that generates a code each student can later use to check whether their report has been reviewed and what action was taken.
The same system could be used to report problems in teaching spaces, such as insufficient capacity, broken equipment and other service failures.
Proposing an official way for students to give feedback on how courses are assessed too, which is not currently collected by the OPIS course evaluation survey.
This feedback would help check that exams match the course content and are proportionate to the number of credits (CFU), and would make it easier to identify exams that artificially slow down students' progress, along with other issues.
Extending to the other I3S Departments and campuses the model we achieved in the Computer Science Department with study rooms S1 and T1, opening for study any rooms not in use for lectures and official activities.
We have found new rooms at the Regina Elena site that are currently closed. One of them is behind the Aula Magna. We want to ask that these rooms, as soon as they are finished and ready to use, be opened to the community as additional study spaces.
We want to make the most of the expertise in our Faculty by involving students, teaching staff and Department professionals in designing, evaluating and improving the University's digital services.
A concrete example is Infostud: I3S can help renew it with computing expertise, user-centred design, usability testing and training opportunities such as internships, theses, project work and student collaboration grants.
It's a model that has already been tried: Infostud Lab, the previous official app for accessing Infostud services, was developed with contributions from students, interns and PhD students of the Computer Science Department, coordinated by a professor as part of a research lab.
Modelled on sapienzastudents.net , we want to create an open-source wiki maintained with contributions from the student community.
The wiki will gather general information relevant to all degree programmes in the I3S Faculty: guides to services, spaces, opportunities, procedures, useful contacts and resources for finding your way around university life.
Sections for individual degree programmes can be developed together with students and representatives from the different Departments.
As representatives in the Faculty Assembly, we can take part in the University's call for student cultural and social initiatives and use it to organise new seminars, workshops and talks.
Once again we'll collect suggestions from the community on guests, topics and content, turning the proposals that come up into new, concrete initiatives.
We want to identify the tools most used across the Faculty's courses and, together with the University, explore institutional licences, plans for universities or other discounted terms that are genuinely useful.
Options worth exploring include Claude for Education , Anthropic's plan for universities, and Overleaf Commons .
We'll only put forward a proposal after checking its availability, cost and usefulness for the student community.
We have already formally raised the issue in the 2025 Annual Report of the Joint Teacher-Student Commission, asking for a review of the exclusion from part-time status for degree programmes taught mainly online.
We want to keep pushing, including in discussions with the new Rector's office, so that students, many of whom work, can make a more gradual study plan official and access the related fee reductions.
The team
Eight students, candidates and the list's presenter, with different backgrounds and a shared commitment to the I3S Faculty.
Former I3S representative with DI Help Desk in the 2024-2026 term
Telegram · @MiViGe
Representative on the Computer Science Degree Council (CAD)
Representative on the Computer Science Degree Council (CAD)
Telegram · @sheeberinhoo
Former I3S representative with DI Help Desk in the 2024–2026 term.
Telegram · @MatypistStudent elections 2026-2028
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