PNNR Scholarships Call

As indicated on the art. 3, clause 6 of the call, all PhD students are required to have certified English proficiency at least B2 level at the time of enrolment, except for the possibility of acquiring it subsequently, but and not later than March 31^th, 2025 otherwise they will be excluded from the PhD programme.

More information at B2 level of English language page.

Graduating students may also apply provided they obtain their degree by November, 15^th 2024. Candidates who do not obtain the qualification within the date will be excluded.

The candidates who are preparing for a degree are requested to promptly communicate the date of the attainment of the qualification to the Post Lauream Office by e-mail, to  postlauream@unive.it, presenting only the substitute declaration if Italian or EU citizens.

The University will exclude those candidate who do not communicate either the graduation date or the final mark within the limits laid down, or who submit uncompleted, incorrect or misdelivered statements.

Annex A - Places with Scholarship 33 of which:

2 PNRR scholarships Ministerial Decree 629/2024 – 3.4 Digital and Environmental Transitions:

• 1 bound to the topic “Emerging chemicals in polar atmospheric aerosols: facing new challenges in pristine environments”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Analysis of micropaleontological assemblages from Antarctic marine sediment cores: the Pliocene as an analogue of the near future climate”;

1 PNRR scholarships Ministerial Decree 629/2024 – 4.1 PNRR Research bound to the topic ““Trophodynamic indicators for estimating food web responses to cumulative impacts in the Barents Sea”;

1 PNRR scholarships Ministerial Decree 629/2024– 4.1 Public Administration bound to the topic “Physiological responses of polar organisms to global changes.”;

9 PNRR scholarships Ministerial Decree 630/2024:

• 1 bound to the topic “Climate and cryosphere interaction in the Himalayas";
• 1 bound to the topic “Space Weather and implications on UV radiation on cryosphere”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Past and present interactions between the ocean, sediments and ice in Antarctica”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Snow cover in the Karakoram and Himalaya regions: current trends and future scenarios”;
• 1 bound to the topic "Geomatics integrated sensors for deformation monitoring in Antarctica”;
• 1 bound to the topic “The microalgal community of the Ross Sea (Antarctica) and the ocean-cryosphere interaction in a changing Southern Ocean”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Macrozoobenthic community structure and bioaccumulation of trace elements along the trophic chain in the Terra Nova Bay (Antarctica)";
• 1 bound to the topic “Atmospheric variability in the Ross Sea: synoptic climatology and relationships to recent changes in salinity and sea ice concentration";
• 1 bound to the topic “ Characterization of intense thunderstorm phenomena in mountain and foothill areas in the context of climate change”.

Other scholarships:

• 2 tied to Arctic themes supported by the Programme for Research in the Arctic (PRA), funded by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR;
• 2 tied to Antarctic themes and supported by the National Programme for Research in the Antarctic (PNRA), funded by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR;
• 1 (subject to the finalisation of the agreement) tied to Arctic themes supported by the Programme for Research in the Arctic (PRA AE2023) funded by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR;
• 1 (subject to the finalisation of the agreement) tied to Antarctic themes and supported by the National Programme for Research in the Antarctic (PNRA AEA2023), funded by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR;
• 1 bound to the topic “Impact of snow and snow melt on the distribution of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (cVMS)”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Study of survival in the Martian environment of thermophilic bacteria isolated from Antarctica: investigation of adaptation strategies and biotechnological potential in relation to in situ resource utilization”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Numerical modeling of the stability of the George V Land (East Antarctica) continental margin: interplay between glacio-isostatic adjustment and ice sheet dynamics over the past Late Pleistocene interglacials” funded by Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS;
• 1 bound to the topic “Interactions between the subglacial lithosphere and Antarctic ice sheets”, funded by Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS;
• 1 bound to the topic “Morphological Analysis combining marine and terrestrial data in a glacial environment. The case study of the Terra Nova Bay Coast, Ross Sea, Antarctica”, funded by the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”;
• 1 bound to the topic “Polar ecosystems undergoing change: role of key zooplanktonic species as vectors of microplastics in the Antarctic and periantarctic trophic network”, funded by the University of Messina;
• 1 bound to the topic “Microbiome of Antarctic benthic invertebrates and its role in adaptation to freezing conditions”, funded by the Università Politecnica delle Marche;
• 1 bound to the topic “Paleoclimatic reconstructions from polar ice cores”, funded by the University of Milano Bicocca;
• 1 bound to the topic “Polar dust sources (Arctic, Antarctic and Himalaya) in the Earth system”, funded by the University of Perugia;
• 1 bound to the topic “Investigation of North Pole-South Pole asymmetries using Paleoclimatic Records: early warning and tipping points”, funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).

Annex B - Places with Scolarship: 1

PNRR Ministerial Decree 630/2024 scholarship bound to the topic “Evaluation and development of soft skills in the secondary school teaching profession”.

Annex B - Places with Scholarship: 1

PNRR Ministerial Decree 630/2024 scholarship bound to the topic “Marketing as self-narration”.

Annex B - Places with Scholarship: 1

PNRR Ministerial Decree 630/2024 scholarship bound to the topic “Analisys of texts in Italian, English, and Spanish (original and translated or transcreated texts through GenAI), in medical, technical, fashion-design, legal, financial and business fields”.

Annex B - Places with Scholarship: 1

PNRR Ministerial Decree 630/2024 scholarship bound to the topic “Innovation and Regulation in Medical Technologies”.

Annex B - Places with Scholarship: 1

PNRR Ministerial Decree 630/2024 scholarship bound to the topic “Buddhist and Tibetan Studies”.

Annex B - Places with Scholarship: 1 bound to the project “Esperanto: Security of modern and heterogeneous web applications”.

The application form must be completed exclusively online by deadine indicated in the Call and online, under penalty of exclusion.
To be considered valid, all candidates must submit their applications using the online procedure as referred to in the above paragraph. Incomplete applications, applications lacking the obligatory academic qualifications shall not be considered valid.
Do not wait until the due date to apply! If you find you're missing some documents and have problems with internet connection you might not succeed in applying just in time. Even if you have to hand over any printed material, please, do it before the deadline: you may find a queue.

The submission of the application is in two steps, both mandatory to the proper participation in this tender (see also Article 6 paragraph 2 of the Call):

First Step

• Registration on the university website; you will find all information about Registration and password recovery if you already have registrated at  Registration and password recovery page. WARNING: Do registration does not mean you have applied; To apply read Second Step (below).
• TAX CODE:  tax code is an alphanumeric code that needs for italian fiscal purpose. It is not a problem if you have not an italian tax code: when you insert your personal data, the computer system will automatically calculate the tax code. Remind that code because you have to use the same on the second step of on line application.

Second Step

Access to the links for the PhD programme you want to partecipate:

• Polar Sciences
• Philosophy and Educational Sciences
• Italian Studies
• Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies and Linguistics
• Management
• Asian and African Studies
• Computer Science

If you need to apply for more PhDs, you need to do more separate applications accessing different links indicated in the notice and filling in all the fields whenever.

Be sure to complete the online application: your application will be fulfilled after receive an email with a receipt with code candidate's application (if you do not receive the email, check your junk mail box / Spam, might be over there).

Incomplete applications will not be accepted. In the email is also shown the link from where you can access the application to consult / modify it using your tax code and the code assigned, always within the deadline stipulated by the call.

The PhD Office will not respond to applicants who ask to know if their application has been correctly received, but will only notify applicants by email who, for whatever reason, will be excluded from the competition.

As provided for the art. 5 of the call for application, it is necessay to enclose the following documents to the application form in order to participate in the competition:

• curriculum vitae et studiorum (European format);
• PhD proposal research;
• transcript certificate of the Master's degree awarded with the list of exams taken with grades
• a valid copy of a non expired identity document

The qualifications and publications required by the forms included with this call for applications (Annex "A") must be attached to the online application form in a PDF format and enclosed with files not larger than 10 MB.

You may also add, delete or modify the attached documents after completion of the online application, on condition that you do so by deadine indicated in the Call and online.
Other way attachments delivery will not be considered.

Pursuant to Presidential Decree (D.P.R.)  no. 445 of 28 December 2000, as amended by article 15, paragraph 1, of Law no. 183 of 12th November 2011, Italian and European citizens are required to submit only a self-declaration with regard to the following personal statuses and details, as certified by Public Administrations, specified in this call for applications and the accompanying forms (Annex "A" and “B”).All documents must be written preferably in Italian or English, or translated into Italian or English by and under the responsibility of the candidates, with the exception of the documentation relating to the qualification that allows access to the Doctorate (see art.4 of the Call).

	European Curriculum Vitae Facsimile Format	165 KB
	Self-certification of academic qualifications [ITA] Facsimile Format	138 KB
	Self-certification of academic qualifications [ITA] Facsimile Format	99 KB
	Generic Self-certification [ITA] Facsimile Format	56 KB

As far as reference letters are concerned, candidates must ask academics/scientists to submit the letters by means of an online procedure (maximum number of two).

To enable this procedure, when compiling their application, candidates must enter the email addresses of the academics/scientists concerned who will receive an email with instructions explaining how to upload their letters. Candidates will receive an email informing them that the letter has been uploaded although these letters may only be viewed by the Administration of PhD Office and the Admissions Committee.

Academics, scientists must upload their letters by deadine indicated in the Call and online.

Candidates must not upload reference letters, but they must only indicate the email tof the academis/other experts.

We will not allow other forms of sending letters.

Candidates are required to submit a research project, in English (max 10,000 characters, spaces included), referring to one of the 6 curricula listed in Annex A to the competition notice. This project, mandatory and necessary for selection purposes, it will not necessarily be the one developed by the student in the 3 years of the course.

Research proposal (of maximum 25.000 characters, including spaces, 1.5 spaced, language: Italian or English; abstract and relevant and updated bibliography).

The proposal must include:

1. the title of the project;
2. state of the art and literature summary (max. 5.000 characters including spaces);
3. the project description, which must cover a topic related to the Research Topics indicated in the Annex "B" of the call for application or between the themes of topic-specific scholarship, with indication of the objectives and methodology of research (max. 10.000 characters including spaces);
4. work plan for each of the three years of the PhD programme (max. 3000 characters);
5. hypothesis of the PhD candidate staying abroad (max 500 characters).

Research proposal in Italian with bibliography raisonne. Maximum of 15.000 characters, including spaces and bibliography raisonne excluded. Foreign candidates can also use English as a vehicular language. In that case, the oral exam will assess the knowledge of the Italian language.

Applicants are required to submit a short research proposal on a topic pertaining to the PhD themes indicated in the appropriate sections of Annex "B" of the call for application. In particular, the proposal, written in English (for a total of 10,000 characters maximum, including spaces), must indicate the subject, the state of the art research on the proposed topic, the objectives, the research methodology and the main contribution of the project in theoretical and empirical terms.

Research proposal, in Italian or English language, of about 2000 words (excluding the bibliography), addressing:

1. topic and state-of-the-art,
2. main research question,
3. theoretical and methodological basis,
4. planned work steps,
5. expected results and relevance

The proposal should be structured as follows: project title and name of applicant, abstract (max. 1000 characters including spaces), state of the art and references (max. 4000 characters including spaces), project description including goals and methodologies (max. 5000 characters including spaces).