Call for application PNRR Scholarships cycle 40 with Annex A and B
Issued with Rector’s Decree No. 761/2024 on July 17 |
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The PhD Office has prepared a list of F.A.Q. to respond quickly to the frequent questions. If you need further assistance, please write an email to phd.application@unive.it.
Candidates in possession of the following requirements, regardless of age or nationality, may apply to participate in the competition:
The information found in Attachments “A” and “B” determines the type of academic qualifications and any other requirements as stipulated by each PhD Programme.
Applications from students already enrolled in PhD Programmes of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice or, in case of Inter-University PhD programme, in the Universities affiliated will not be considered valid.
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 31th, 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, 15th 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.
The suitability of the foreign qualification is verified by the Examination Boards to regulations in force in Italy and in the Country where the qualification itself has been awarded, and while respecting the international agreements concerning the recognition of qualifications for further education.
To assess the eligibility of foreign qualifications, candidates must provide:
Candidates must have a qualification that allows enrolment in a PhD programme in the country where the qualification was obtained.
Annex A - Places with Scholarship 33 of which:
2 PNRR scholarships Ministerial Decree 629/2024 – 3.4 Digital and Environmental Transitions:
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:
Other scholarships:
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
Second Step
Access to the links for the PhD programme you want to partecipate:
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:
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
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Self-certification of academic qualifications [ITA]
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Self-certification of academic qualifications [ITA]
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Generic Self-certification [ITA]
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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.
Attention: The PhD Office has no other indication than these published and provided to us by the individual PhD Programmes, to which we invite the candidates to contact for any clarifications.
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:
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:
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).
The online publication of the schedule of selections has full notification value for the purpose of calling candidates who will be admitted to the oral test.
With the publication of the results of the evaluation of the qualifications (or written test), the times of the interviews will be communicated. The interviews could, based on the number of candidates admitted to the oral exams, continue over the following days.
The candidate must be available, on the day and at the time established by the Admissions Committee, showing the valid ID document uploaded during application.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 65/100 points.
Final List - Polar Sciences | 148 KB |
Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 13 September, 2024
As indicated in the call for application, minimum score for admission to interview (research proposal + qualifications) is 50/75 points.
The oral examination will be held on September, 5th and 6th 2024.
Videoconferencing interviews will take place via the Zoom platform.
The interview schedule may be modified on the basis of motivated requests and must necessarily take into account the different time zones. In this case, contact the Commission directly through the course secretariat.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 60/100 points.
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Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 13 September, 2024
As indicated in the call for application, minimum score for admission to interview (research proposal + qualifications) is 28/57 points.
The oral examination will be held exclusively in videoconferencing mode on September, 6th 2024.
Videoconferencing interviews will take place via the GMeet platform.
The scale of the conference and the link for the videoconference will be communicated directly to the candidate for the Commission.
The interview schedule may be modified on the basis of motivated requests and must necessarily take into account the different time zones. In this case, contact the Commission directly through the course secretariat.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 60/100 points.
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Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 11 September, 2024
As indicated in the call for application, minimum score for admission to interview (research proposal + qualifications) is 30/50 points.
The oral examination will be held on September, 3rd 2024 only by video conference.
Videoconferencing interviews will take place via the GMeet platform as per attached schedule.
The interview schedule may be modified on the basis of motivated requests and must necessarily take into account the different time zones. In this case, contact the Commission directly through the course secretariat.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 60/100 points.
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Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 13 September, 2024
As indicated in the call for application, minimum score for admission to interview (research proposal + qualifications) is 40/50 points.
The oral exam will be held on 04/09/2024 starting at 9:30. The in-person interviews will be held at the Conference Room (Palazzo Cosulich).
The videoconference interviews will take place via the Google Meet platform of Google Suite.
The schedule of the videoconference interviews will be communicated directly by the Commission together with the videoconference link in Google Meet for the oral exam.
The interview schedule may be modified on the basis of motivated requests and must necessarily take into account the different time zones. In this case, contact the Commission directly through the course secretariat.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 60/100 points.
Final List - Management | 42 KB |
Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 13 September, 2024
Only the candidates who have obtained at least 50/75 points in the qualifications assessment are admitted to the oral examination.
The oral examination will be held on September, 5th 2024.
Videoconferencing interviews will take place via the Zoom platform.
The videoconference link in Zoom for the oral exam will be communicated directly to the candidates by the Commission.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 60/100 points.
Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 12 September, 2024
As indicated in the call for application, minimum score for admission to interview (research proposal + qualifications) is 35/50 points, of which at least 30 points related to the research proposal and at least 5 points for other qualifications.
The oral examination will be held only on September, 4th 2024, considering the number of candidates admitted to the exam.
The in-person interviews will be held in Room A of the Department headquarters, at Palazzo Vendramin de’ Carmini, Dorsoduro 3462, Venice (VE).
The videoconference interviews will take place via the Zoom platform.
The interview schedule may be modified on the basis of motivated requests and must necessarily take into account the different time zones. In this case, contact the Commission directly through the course secretariat.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.
As indicated in the Call for Application, are eligible only candidates with minimum admission score of 60/100 points.
Deadline by which admitted candidates must enroll in the PhD programme, pursuant to Art. 10 of the Call - Acceptance of the position and enrollment: 13 September, 2024
As indicated in the call for application, minimum score for admission to interview (research proposal + qualifications) is 50/70 points.
The oral examination will be held on September, 5th 2024 via Videoconferencing.
Videoconferencing interviews will take place via the Google Meet platform.
The interview schedule may be modified on the basis of motivated requests and must necessarily take into account the different time zones. In this case, contact the Commission directly through the course secretariat.
The oral examination, even if held remotely, is public.
It is strictly forbidden to record or share audio, video and/or pictures of the video conferencing interview. Any violation will be prosecuted.
In order to attend the video conferencing interview, the candidate must have a stable internet connection, a device equipped with a webcam and headphones with a microphone. In their absence, computer speakers and microphone can be used. Please mind that doing so the audio quality is greatly reduced.
As far as possible, it is recommended to place the computer in a quiet, well-lit room.
Candidates must connect to the public Zoom conference 15 minutes before the beginning of the interview and check the correct functioning of the computer and the internet connection.