The University of Rome “La Sapienza” offers 16 three year full-time postgraduate PhD positions with fellowship for attaining the degree of “Dottore di Ricerca” (PhD) in the Doctoral Schools listed in appendix.

Each fellowship amounts to € 19.800,00 per year; this amount includes national insurance contributions (INPS) that fellowship recipients are required to pay (8,91% for 2011).

The fellowship doesn’t cover the annual entrance fee and doesn’t increase for research periods spent abroad.

The PhD Programme lasts three years and may be extended to a fourth year (without grant), subject to approval by the School authorities. At the end of the first and second year of attendance, students have to be evaluated as proficient according to the rules of the Schools.

Call: http://www.uniroma1.it/documenti/studenti/laureati/dottorati/2011PhD_Call.pdf

Deadline: 31 May 2011

Source:
http://www.scholarships-online.info/2011/04/universirty-of-rome-la-sapienza-scholarships-2011-italy

2011- Doctorate Programme in the field of Computational Logic by EPCL in Europe

Study Subject: Computational Logic
Employer: EPCL
Level: PhD

The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly by four of the leading European universities in the field:

• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy),
• Technische Universität Dresden (Germany),
• Technische Universität Wien (Austria), and
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

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Scholarship for International students in Mechanical Engineering, PhD School of Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Study Subject: Mechanical Engineering
Employer: PhD School of Politecnico di Milano
Level: PhD

The Doctoral Programme in Mechanical Engineering is coordinated by the ‘Dipartimento di Meccanica’ – Department of Mechanical Engineering. It enrols slightly less than 10% of the total number of PhD students of the PhD School of Politecnico di Milano. In figures, it enrols an average number of 25 students every year, many of them supported by scholarships from public institutions and private companies. Each student is assigned a tutor, who is a member of the Doctoral Board, and a research supervisor, who is a professor of the Faculty. Educational activities consist of selected courses. Advanced courses (taught in English) dedicated to doctoral students and senior graduate students bring the attendants to the frontiers of knowledge in those research sectors where the Department of Mechanical Engineering excels and is most active.
Dedicated courses on relevant topics are organized yearly by various national and international schools, and offered to our PhD students. All lecturers are prominent at international level in their respective field of expertise.
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The International Doctoral Program in Economics is a three-year program designed for highly qualified and motivated students who wish to acquire the research and analytical skills of the international scientific community in economics. It is designed for students seeking jobs in academia as well as those who wish to acquire the skills of professional academic research to work in government agencies, financial institutions, international agencies, private companies.

Students will be offered one year and a half of intensive course work by an international Faculty composed of both permanent staff of the School and a large group of Visiting Scholars, and will then proceed to supervised research work, yielding an original dissertation to be discussed in a final, public examination. It is expected that students will produce articles publishable in international journals

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