PhD Degrees

Positions and Scholaships
a.y. 2025/2026 - cycle 41

Here you can find the list of PhD Programmes with indication of positions available for Academic Year 2025/2026 (cycle 41), with scholarships and scholarships bound to specific research topics.
More details on constraints, obligations and requirements for each scholarship can be found in Annex A to the Call.

Scholarship 8 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic: “Development of luminescent materials for remote multiparametric sensing in biological systems”
  • 1 tied to the research topic: “Innovative mesoporous nano-systems for historical surfaces” funded by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT – Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT). Further details regarding the doctoral scholarship and CCHT IIT laboratories are available at CCHT IIT. CCHT IIT labs are located at the innovative H-Farm research hub.
  • 2 scholarships funded by Project DN Re-Fibre “Smart disassembly, functionalisation and reassembly of plant fibres for fully recyclable bio-based composites” tied to the research topic (The 2 scholarships DN Re-Fibre will be assigned provided the positive evaluation by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) and the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR):
     
    • “Colloidal decorated lignin and wood reassembly"
    • “Reversibly crosslinked lignins and lignin polymers”

Scholarship 5 of which:

  • 1 tied to the PhD issued in agreement with South Denmark University (Denmark)

Scholarship 5 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic “Vulnerability of Social and Economic Systems”

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 1

Scholarship 4 of which:

  • 1 tied to the Philosophy curriculum as part of the PhD issued in agreement with Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (France)

Scholarship 5 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic “Cybersecurity” as part of the PhD issued in agreement with Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic)
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Learning on graphs: representations and generative models, with applications to climate change”
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Compressed Indexes for Regular Languages with Applications to Computational Pan-genomics”

Scholarships 11 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic “Biomolecular and Material Science and Technology, Stem Cell Research, Genomic Medicine, Photoimmunology, Rehabilitation Medicine” within the framework of the agreement with Kansai Medical University, (Japan).
  • 3 tied to the research topic “Development, production and application of targeted therapies in cancer and human diseases” funded by the National Cancer Center - Centro di Riferimento Oncologico - CRO in Aviano
  • 1 tied to the research topic “AI for Analysis of NMR Spectra in Industrial Application” funded by School of Engineering at ZHAW - Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
  • 1 tied to the research topic ““Antimicrobial nano-materials for advanced surface protection applications” funded by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT – Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT). Further details regarding the doctoral scholarship and CCHT IIT laboratories are available at CCHT IIT. CCHT IIT labs are located at the innovative H-Farm research hub

Places reserved for foreign candidates with scholarship: 5

Scholarships 4 of which:

  • 1 tied to the PhD issued in agreement with Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Austria)

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states (China Scholarship Council – CSC): 1

Scholarships 8 of which:

  • 1 tied to the PhD issued in agreement with Sorbonne Université (France)
  • 1 tied to the PhD issued in agreement with Univerza Na Primorskem/University of Primorska (Slovenia)
  • 2 tied to the research topic “Project on cultural, linguistic and literary adaptation, which may include the ways in which texts and genres are transformed across centuries and geographical areas, as well as the way language adaptation can be the product of interaction among languages, contexts and linguistic variations”
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Attraction strategies in different international contexts through cultural and socio-economic specificities” funded by AB Holding S.p.A.

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 1

Scholarships 5 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic “Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship o organization theory” within the PhD issued in agreement with SKEMA Business School (France)

Scholarships 7 of which:

  • 2 funded by the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change – CMCC
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Analysis and Projections of Sea Level Rise Scenarios in the Northern Adriatic Sea and Impacts on the Lagoon of Venice: Modelling Approaches and Risk Assessment” funded by International Centre for Climate Change Research and Studies – CSRCC
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Dynamic Adaptation Strategies to Sea Level Rise: Resilient Solutions for the Protection of Venice and the Northern Adriatic Coastal Areas” funded by International Centre for Climate Change Research and Studies – CSRCC 

Scholarships 9 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic “Integrating Risk Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment to support safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials”
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Integrated use of traditional and state-of-the-art methodologies to study the biodiversity of marine zooplanktonic communities and transitional environments“ co-funded by ISMAR-CNR Venice (provided the relevant agreement is signed)
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Mediterranean Sea climate in Antiquity” funded by ISMAR-CNR  Venice (provided the relevant agreement is signed)
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Integrated methodologies for assessing water, heat, salt and sediment fluxes in transitional systems in a land-sea continuum perspective” funded by ISMAR-CNR  Venice (provided the relevant agreement is signed)
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Development and use of Integrated Testing Strategies (ITSs) for the ecotoxicological assessment of bio-based solutions to be used in the textile industry”
  • 1 tied to the research topic “Generative AI for adaptation pathways co-design in marine coastal ecosystems under climate change”

Scholarships 11 of which:

  • 3 funded by University of Trieste
  • 3 funded by University of Udine
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Shaping Knowledge in the Ancient Near East. Analysis of scribal practices and habits in the Library of Ashurbanipal cuneiform tablets through Machine Learning” funded by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT – Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT). Further details regarding the doctoral scholarship and CCHT IIT laboratories are available at CCHT IIT. CCHT IIT labs are located at the innovative H-Farm research hub.

Scholarships 4 of which:

  • 1 tied to the research topic “Heritage cities at the edge of Empire: Ukrainian and Croatian situation in comparison”

Scholarships 7 on which:

  • 1 on a research topic proposed by the candidate, in the field of Global Studies or on religious, historical, artistic, archaeological, literary, linguistic, sociological, anthropological, philosophical contexts, etc.
  • 2 on transcultural research topics (in the field of Global Studies or historical, religious, artistic, archaeological, literary, linguistic, sociological, anthropological, philosophical contexts, etc. tied to the PhD issued in agreement with Heidelberg Universität (Germany)
  • 1 tied to the research topic of Centro MaP, Centro di Ricerca Marco Polo - Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections)
  • 2 on research topics related to transdisciplinary research on sustainability and political ecology, with a focus on Asian and/or African countries
  • 1 tied on research topic “Formation and development of the Arabic linguistic thinking and the grammar-making of Classical Arabic”

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 3

PhD Inter-University Programmes administered by other Universities

Please visit University of Padua website for all information about this Call for Application.