Applications are open for the Following PhD Programs:
Ph.D. PROGRAM IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
The Ph.D. Program aims at preparing researchers and professionals with a wide knowledge about the foundations of informatics and about its applications to a variety of systems and disciplines, focusing on aspects of particular importance in the present context. The new version of informatics is changing the perspective of other disciplines and several aspects of common life, and is the target of very active research in the international scene.
Ph.D. PROGRAM IN ECONOMICS, MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS
The program aims at dealing 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 PhD program is the integration of theoretical, technical, and practical expertise, aimed to educate 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.
Ph.D. PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
PhD. in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino
The program trains both researchers and professionals, able to operate at the highest levels of management of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, in both public and private institutions. The program integrates concepts and from several domains (humanities, economics, law, information technologies, material sciences) in the analysis of cultural heritage and landscape.
The program provides a consistent multidisciplinary path where students are provided with competencies which nowadays cannot be obtained but through particular self-training initiatives.
A distinctive feature of the program is the involvement of Ph.D. students in projects, both on national and international scale, so as to make them familiar with the complex management of cultural heritage and landscape. The program integrates relevant theoretical aspects with a strong practical involvement in projects.
Ph.D. PROGRAM IN POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
The PhD in Political Systems and Institutional Change is a multidisciplinary course analysing, in a comparative perspective, institutions in their historical, political, sociological, economic and legal 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.
USEFUL INFORMATION
- Place: Lucca, Tuscany - Italy
- Duration of the Program: 3 years
- Position available: 12
12 students: no tuition fees + free access to IMT Canteen
6 students: full grants (annual grant amounts +/- 13.638,00 Euros gross)
6 students: free accommodation
6 students without scholarship will have at their disposal a budget of 3000 € to be used for expenses closely related to research activity
- How to apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form and attach the required documents following the procedure described on the imt web site at the web page: http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/call_for_applications/index.php
- Deadline: December 4, 2009
CONTACTS:
PHD OFFICE
IMT INSTITUTE FOR ADVACED STUDIES LUCCA
PIAZZA SAN PONZIANO, 6
55100 LUCCA
www.imtlucca.it
TEL.: +39 0583 4326 561
FAX: +39 0583 4326 565
E-MAIL: phdapplications@imtlucca.it