automatically create aliases for contents in another folder?

I have a synced folder called "projects" that's got, well, all my projects in it (separated by folders). I would like to get individual aliases for all the separate project folders within "projects" appear on my desktop, so I don't have to open "projects" to go to an individual project folder.

Is there a way to automatically create shortcuts for each of those project folders and show them on the desktop, and have it synced where if I add another folder in "projects" an alias would automatically appear on my desktop, and if I delete a project, its shortcut would also disappear?

Normally I just have project folders inside Desktop itself but now that the projects need to be synced (like with Dropbox) I can't have them just be in the desktop. But it's important for me to have one glance access to the contents of the project folder, so I always know what projects need to be worked on.