The XXVI cycle of Research Doctorate courses is hereby instituted, with administrative headquarters at the Università degli Studi di Torino, starting date January 1st 2011.

The competitive public competition, by examination, is hereby announced for the purpose of admission to the Research Doctorate courses listed below.

Information on Research Doctorates can be consulted on the websites:
www.unito.it/accessorapido/dottorati_postdottorati and www.unito.it/accessorapido/phd_competition

All available study grants are entitled as follow:

1. study grants funded by the University of Torino ( in the following called UNITO);
2. study grants funded by the "Compagnia di San Paolo" Foundation;
3. study grants funded by the "CRT" Foundation – type A. They are co-funded by CRT and the University of Torino for students with foreign citizenship earning their degree abroad and aiming at developing specific research project;
4. study grants funded by the "CRT" Foundation – type B: they are co-funded by CRT and other Institutions aiming at developing specific research project. A compulsory internship in charge of the Funding Institutions of at least 6 months is foreseen in the last year of the PhD programme for students granting this kind of fellowship;
5. study grants entitled "Progetto Giovani", financed by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) as part of the "Fondo per il sostegno dei giovani e per favorire la mobilità degli studenti" (fund for the support of young people and for encouraging student mobility). Such grants are linked to specific research projects.
6. study grants entitled "Progetto Lagrange", financed by CRT Foundation and aiming at developing specific research projects.
7. Study grants funded by Public and/or Private Institutions: if linked to specific research projects, it will be mentioned on the "Additional information" on the internet web site.

Further information about these and other study grants, as well as about available research projects will be published on the websites: www.unito.it/accessorapido/dottorati_postdottorati and
www.unito.it/accessorapido/phd_competition. These information will be continuously updated until the date of the examination, so we recommend a constant attention.

Get details for these positions and contact info at:
www.unito.it/unitoWAR/page/istituzionale_en/phd/call_deadlines_application1

or download the brochure at:
www.unito.it/unitoWAR/ShowBinary/FSRepo/Area_Portale_Pubblico/Documenti/R/research_doctorate_26cycle.pdf

Competitions for admission are open in the following Ph.D. Programs at IMT:

Computer Science and Engineering

The Doctoral Program aims at preparing researchers and professionals with a wide knowledge of the foundations of informatics. It seeks to explore applications to a variety of systems that are changing the perspective of other existing technological applications and that are target of very active research in the international scene. The research activity focuses on key aspects of these systems, such as open-endedness, autonomy, resource sharing, security, and concurrency.

Economics, Markets, Institutions

The program seeks to deal with issues in political economy, applied public economics, the functioning of industries and markets, the impact of macroeconomics on productivity and growth.

A distinctive feature of the Ph.D. program is the integration of theoretical, technical, and practical expertise, aimed at educating highly qualified professionals, who analyze, plan, and manage concrete interventions of political economy.

Theoretical methodologies and models are generated and tested, through the systematic investigation of the real world, with a distinctive focus on concrete observation of markets and their actors. At the end of the program, students are able to identify commonalities as well as distinctive characters of economies, markets, and industries.

Management and Development of Cultural Heritage
Ph.D. in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino

The Program aims at formalizing in a consistent multidisciplinary course, the specific know-hows needed by researchers and professionals operating at the highest levels of management of culture. The PhD course focuses on the following disciplines: History and Art History; Economics and Management of immaterial goods; Legislation on Cultural Heritage; Technology. Doctoral students will also be given elements of physics and chemistry, strictly related to the field of conservation and analysis of materials. The PhD program integrates a theoretical approach with technical and practical ones, in order to educate both highly qualified professionals operating in the concrete field of cultural policy and researchers who will be active in the field of cultural heritage.

Political Systems and Institutional Change

The PhD in Political Systems and Institutional Change is a multidisciplinary course which analyses, in a comparative perspective, institutions and their historical, political, sociological, legal and economic features. Special attention will be devoted to processes of institutional change. The PhD aims at forming political analysts able to: plan and manage collaborative and integrated processes at the international level; analyse and assess policies and institutional settings at a supranational, national and regional level; confront the specific problems of countries in transition towards democracy and a market economy.
Duration: 3 years

Language: Courses and seminars are held in English. Foreign Ph.D. students are required to attend an Italian Language and Culture Course.

Classes begin in March 2011.

The deadline for applications is October 28, 2010 at 18:00 (Italian time).

More info and contact details at www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/call_for_applications/index.php

Overview
The PhD Programme in “Innovative Strategies in Biomedical Research” is characterized by a significant multisciplinary connotation, where the experimental approach focusing on cellular and subcellular mechanisms combines with the physiological and physiopathological analysis of the organism as a whole, and is also relevant to medical issues. A special emphasis will be placed on molecular biology both in its basic approach and in its clinical application approach.

The Programme consists in the following curricula:
- System Physiology. Experimental and Clinical
- Physiological Genomics and Molecular Medicine

Admission Requirements
- possession of a Master of Science (MSc) degree (or equivalent);
- to be under 35 years of age on September 30, 2010.

Positions and grants
- 2 positions with 2 fellowships (amounting to € 14.500 per year + free meals at school’s canteen + Campus facilities) );
- the School may also admit eligible candidates without grants up to a maximum number of  2 posts. They will take part in the Programme at their own expenses but they will not have to pay any tuition fee.

Deadlines
-  applications must be submitted online by  September 30, 2010 www.sssup.it/phdapplicationonline ;
-  hardcopy of the application and the must reach (regardless the forwarding date) the “Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Divisione Formazione Universitaria e alla Ricerca, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – 56127 Pisa” by October 11, 2010 (please, write the notice “Application PhD in Innovative Strategies in Biomedical research on the envelope).


Application and attachments
Enclosures to the hard copy of the applications:

1.  the copy of  the candidate's Passport,
2.  two copies of  Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum (please use the EU model);
3. the academic record with the full list of courses and grades (in English, in French, in German, in Spanish or in Italian);
4. the certificates of knowledge of English language
5. one copy of their Master degree thesis and one copy of any document and/or publication that the candidate deems suitable;
6. two copies of a Research Project, of no more than 3,000 words, which will describe the research activities that applicants would like to perform during the PhD course. The Research Project should include: 1) a title; 2) the scientific premises and the relevant bibliography; 3) the aim and expectations of the research; 4) the experimental methods and data analysis methods which will be used, where required;
7. - at least two Reference Letters written by scholars who have supervised the applicant’s work during his/her university studies;
8. - a numbered list of documents attached.

Selection of applicants
Assessment of the titles: the submitted documents and publications, including the CV, and the Research Project.

Beginning of the PhD Programme:
The PhD Programme will start on January 20, 2011

Information
email: infophd@sssup.it
tel.: +39.050.883.250/383

Attached documents: Call for applications 2010-2011 - Non EU Citizens (file pdf, 594 Kb)

Click here for an ONLINE APPLICATION

Designing hospitality - International competition for NABA Master programs 2011

Pure and unconditional hospitality, hospitality itself, opens or is in advance open to someone who is neither expected nor invited, to whomever arrives as an absolutely foreign visitor, as a new arrival, non-identifiable and unforeseeable, in short, wholly other.
J. Derrida

In 2010 NABA celebrates its 30th birthday and joins Laureate International Universities, a network of more than 100 campus in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. The number of international students hosted by the Academy, nowadays accounting for the 20% of the students population, will therefore significantly grow in the incoming years. That’s why NABA launches a competition aimed at collecting the best ideas and projects focusing on hospitality, a specially relevant subject for an institution welcoming every year more than 200 students from more than 40 different countries, based in an increasingly multicultural town such as Milan.

Hospitality as welcoming culture and openness towards innovation and change. A subject especially relevant for NABA, used to explore the continuous mutations of identities, territories, forms of life and communication, through creative practices such as visual arts, fashion and design.

8 full scholarships (one for each program) are available for the authors of the best hospitality-oriented projects, declined in the various areas of NABA Master programs starting in January 2011. Interested applicants may download the specific project biefings clicking on the banners below, and shall send their projects to NABA by September 30th 2010.

An international jury will evaluate the projects and award the scholarships to the authors of the most interesting ones.

For further information please contact NABA postgraduate department, writing at infomaster@naba.it or calling us at (+39) 02 97372264.

Source and more info at: www.master-naba.com/page.php?contentId=377

Research areas:

1. Biochemistry
2 Bioinformatics
3. Bioorganic Chemistry
4. Developmental Biology
5. Genetics
6. Lipidomics and Biomembranes
7. Metabolomics and metabolic imaging
8. Microbiology
9. Molecular and Cellular Biology
10. Nanobiotecnology
11. Neurobiology
12. Structural Biology
13. Synthetic Biology
14. System and Computational Biology

Application deadline: The application, together with all the attachments required, must arrive at the University of Trento by the 30th of September 2010

Please download the brochure with full details from the following link (pdf):
www.unitn.it/files/download/3068/EN_%20Biomolecular%20Sciences%2026%20ciclo.pdf

INTERNATIONAL MASTER IN TOURISM & LEISURE X Edition (October 2010 – October 2011)

Get the details of this course at www.mib.edu/c/d/p/master_tourism_training_education.aspx
Get the details of the scholarship for all coontinents and application info at www.mib.edu/c/d/p/000079.aspx

Specific information for Scholarship Competition for citizens of African countries

MIB School of Management of Trieste, Italy, in the frame of the UNWTO.TedQual Mentoring Programme
(including specific activities to support Tourism Educational Institutions in Africa), is pleased to announce a
competition for scholarships for citizens of African countries.

The Scholarship will go toward tuition fees to attend the X edition of the International Master in Tourism & Leisure (October 2010 - October 2011).

The Scholarships will cover up to 50% of the tuition fees (equivalent to 9.000,00 EUR – nine thousand EUR). The amount of the scholarships will be discounted from the overall tuition fees. In case of course abandonment or exclusion for any reason, no amount of the scholarship will be paid or reimbursed.

The candidates need to meet the following requirements:
- academic degree (or equivalent qualification) in any discipline;
- fluent working knowledge of English (a TOEIC or TOEFL certificate is an asset);
- significant work and life experience is an asset;
- aged less than 30 as of October 2010.

MIB School of Management will grant the scholarships to the best candidates on the basis of educational qualifications, personal skills, professional know-how and motivation shown during the assessment interview.

To be con0sidered for a scholarship, the application form for the programme must be completed on-line at
www.mib.edu

In order to finalize the application, the following documents must be received:
- degree certificate;
- two letters of recommendation;
- if available a certificate which demonstrates an adequate knowledge of English such as TOEIC or TOEFL
(alternatively, verification will be made directly by the School);
- if available a deductive reasoning test score such as GMAT (alternatively, verification will be made directly by the School).

The documentation must be sent by September 21, 2010 to the following address:
Ms. Barbara Sepic
Admissions Officer
MIB School of Management
Largo Caduti di Nasiriya 1
34142 Trieste – Italy

eMail: sepic@mib.edu

fax number: +39 040 9188122

Prof. Vladimir Nanut
Dean and Director
MIB School of Management

The Ph.D. Programme in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability is a three-year residential programme characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the subject and by the emphasis placed on current problems defining the protection and promotion of human rights.); it consists in the following curricula (Research Areas):
- Identity, rights and conflicts in the political theory;
- Conflict and political systems in international relations;
- International and European political economy;
- Institutions and mechanisms for protecting Human rights: outlines of International Law;
- Rights and social capital in the regional development policies;
- Agrarian Law, Environmental Law and Sustainable Development of the land.
Admission Requirements:
- Applicants must hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) or a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree or equivalent title;
- they should not be older than 35 years on September 30, 2010; older than 35 may be exceptionally admitted by the Examination Committee;
- they must hold of an internationally acknowledged certificate specifying their intermediate level English knowledge (as per art. 2, par. 3).

Positions and grants:
- 3 positions with 3 fellowships (amounting to € 14.500 per year + free meals at school's canteen + Campus facilities).
- The School may also admit eligible candidates without grants up to a maximum number of 3 posts

Deadlines
- Candidates are requested to apply online at: www.sssup.it/phdapplicationonline by September 30, 2010 by 12.00 pm GMT. In case of problems with the online application, please contact the PhD Administration Office (tel. +39.050. 883.220/383, e-mail: infophd@sssup.it).

- An hardcopy of the application (signed by the candidate), together with the enclosures requested, must reach by October 11, 2010:
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Divisione Formazione Universitaria e alla Ricerca
Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33
56127 PISA, Italy

“Application PhD in Politics, human rights and sustainability” must be written on the envelopment.

Application and attachments
Enclosures to the hard copy of the applications:
a) a copy of the candidate's passport;
b) two copies of their Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum. Please, use the EU model;
c) photocopy of Candidate’s University Master Degree (to be translated in Italian or in English except those written in French, German, Spanish);
d) two copies of the abstract of thir Master Degree thesis and a copy of any other publication that they deem suitable
e) detailed list of academic courses taken (written either in English or in Italian, French, German, Spanish). This list should contain information regarding credits, units (or equivalent) received, the grades received for each class taken, and the date when the final (or semester) examination was taken;
f) the certificates of knowledge of English language (as per art. 2, par. 3) and any certificate related to this Call that they deem suitable;
g) two copies of a detailed Research Project, of no more than 3,000 words, which will describe the research activities that applicants would like to perform during the PhD course. The Research Project will include:
- a title;
- the scientific premises and the relevant bibliography;
- the aim and expectations of the research;
- the experimental methods and data analysis methods which will be used, where required;
h) at least two Reference Letters written by Faculty Members who have supervised the applicant's work during his/her university studies;
i) a numbered list of documents attached

Selection of applicants
- Assessment of the Titles: assessment of all the submitted documents and publications e submitted documents and publications, including the CV, and the Research Project.

Beginning of the PhD Programme: The PhD Programme will start on January 20, 2011

For more info, contact:
email: infophd@sssup.it
tel.: +39.050.883.250/383

Tentative Application Deadline : 30 September 2010

PhD program in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies”

The PhD program in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies” (IBT) is an international and multidisciplinary joint postgraduate training program provided by the University of Eastern Piedmont at Novara and the University of Insubria at Varese (Italy) in collaboration with the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA).  

The IBT Program offers four scholarships for the following topics:

1. “Vaccines for therapy of autoimmunity” Steward Department: Department of Medical Sciences, Novara, Italy.
   
   
2. “Innovative tools for the diagnosis of autoimmunity” Steward Department: Department of Medical Sciences, Novara, Italy.
   
   
3. “Interferon and autoimmunity” Steward Department: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Novara, Italy.
   
   
4. “Tumor immunotherapy and vaccines” Steward Department: Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Varese, Italy.
   
   

The program is funded by the Fondazione Cariplo and comprises grants for specific educational activities and research stages at the participating or other institutions.

Application guidelines PhD program in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies”

Eligible Candidates:
Highly qualified and motivated students of any nationality are invited to apply for the 3-year studentships.
Applicants shall hold a M.Sc. or equivalent degree. Candidates who have not yet obtained their degree will be accepted if they will finish their studies latest by September 30th, 2010.

How to apply:

• Download and fill in the Application Form. Complete the Application Form and send it together with all enclosures by e-mail to ibt.program@med.unipmn.it. Please send all enclosures as a single pdf file (≤10 MB).
  Please note: Documents in languages other than Italian or English must be submitted as English translations. Only fully completed application forms will be considered.
• Two letters of recommendation are requested. Applicants must forward the Reference Form to the referees and ask them to e-mail the completed form to ibt.program@med.unipmn.it.
  Please note: It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the referees send the form within the application deadline.

Deadline:
The deadline for receipt of completed Application and Reference Forms including all enclosures is September, 15th 2010

Selection:
All applications will be pre-screened by the IBT Program Committee. The short-listed candidates will receive invitations for interviews at the end of October 2010. Justifiable travel and lodging expenses will be reimbursed. Offers of admission will be made to the successful candidates at the end of the interview.

Financial Support
PhD students admitted to the IBT program will be enrolled as graduate students at the University of Eastern Piedmont (topic 1-3) or at the University of Insubria (topic 4).
Studentships will be approx. € 21.000 per year. Furthermore students will receive financial support for participations at International Conferences and for research stages abroad in collaborating or other international institutions.

Tuition Fees
Tuition Fees amount to € 295 per year.

Contact PhD program in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies”

For general inquiries please contact the PhD Program Offices:

• University of Eastern Piedmont, Mario Repole, mario.repole@rettorato.unipmn.it
• University of Insubria, Sara Coppes, sara.coppes@uninsubria.it

For more details on the specific topics contact the followings:

• “Vaccines for therapy of autoimmunity” umberto.dianzani@med.unipmn.it
  
• “Innovative tools for the diagnosis of autoimmunity” daniele.sblattero@med.unipmn.it
• “Interferon and autoimmunity” marisa.gariglio@med.unipmn.it
• “Tumor immuno therapy and vaccines” roberto.accolla@uninsubria.it

Forms

1. Application Form 
2. Reference Form  

Source: www4.med.unipmn.it/ibt/2010/ibt-phd-program-2010

CICOPS Scholarships are now being accepted for 2011. Academics and other researchers from developing countries who wish to carry out research in collaboration with a professor at the University of Pavia are welcome to apply. Applicants must have the support of a collaborator at the University of Pavia.

For further information, please read the Call for Applications for 2011 CICOPS Scholarships, which can be downloaded below.

To apply, please fill out the application form, which can also be downloaded from the link below.

Deadline: June 30th, 2010.

Documents to download

• Click here to download the Call for Applications 2011 CICOPS Scholarships - Instructions
  
• Click here for CICOPS SCHOLARSHIP 2011 APPLICATION FORM
• Source: www.unipv.eu/on-line/en/Home/InternationalRelations/CICOPS/CICOPSScholarships.html
  

The University of Padova, through the funding of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, offers research fellowships for foreign students to attend Doctoral Schools/International Courses. During the 3-year doctoral programme, successful candidates will be offered full board and lodging.

Notification of 15 PhD grants for foreign students (26th series)

Deadline: 2nd September 2010

• Call for application
• Instruction for filling in the application form
• Application form Annex 1 - List of School Curricula and Doctoral Schools and related research lines
• Annex 2 - General terms and conditions for fellowships FAQ

Info: Research Training Office
Via del Padovanino, 9 - 35123 Padova
phone +39 049 827 3754/3935 fax +39 049 827 3780
e-mail: formazione.ricerca@unipd.it
Mail address: via 8 febbraio 2 - 35122 Padova

Source: www.unipd.it/en/doctorates/grants.htm