PhD Programme in Information Engineering and Computer Science - second call

Until 36th cycle Information and communication technology.

The University of Trento announces a public selection procedure for admission to the 40th cycle (academic year 2024/2025) of the PhD Programme in Information Engineering and Computer Sciences.

In List of Calls for Phd positions, announcements of selection from past years are available.

Announcement of selection - A.Y. 2024-2025

Rector's Decree no. 786 of 5.07.2024, published on 5.07.2024.
*please note that only the Italian version of the call is legally binding, the English version is provided for information only.

Positions: no. 19 +1
Scholarships: no. 18 +1 (of which no. 18 on reserved topics)
Position without scholarship: no. 1
Positions reserved to applicants who are granted scholarships by foreign countries: no. 4 in the Area A, B, D.

Supernumerary positions without scholarship (art. 9): n. 1

The Academic year starts November 1, 2024
Duration of the PhD Programme: 3 years

May also be admitted on additional positions applicants selected by special committees for admission related to specific international mobility programmes in which the University of Trento participates.

application/pdfISI_secondo_bando_40_ENG(PDF | 484 KB)

How to apply

To partecipate to the selection procedure, fill in the application online within the deadline.

Deadline for application: August 5th, 2024 hrs. 4.00 PM (Italian time)

Details about funded positions

Research Area A: Deep and Structured Machine Learning, Language Speech and Interaction, Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization
Research Area B: Cyber Security, Embedded Intelligence and Robotics Systems, Systems and Networks, Wireless networking, sensing and localization
Research Area C: ata Intelligence, Software Engineering and Formal Methods
Research Area D: Multimedia Signal Processing and Understanding, Remote and Distributed Sensing.

Positions and scholarships increased after the publication of the call are in bold (indicated with +).

Research Area No. of positions With scholarship/fellowship Without scholarship
A 8 +1 8 +1 0
B 3 3 0
C 4 4 0
D 4 3 1

Positions reserved to applicants who are granted scholarships by foreign countries (without scholarship, reserved to candidates with specific requirements, see art. 6 of the call): no. 1 in Research Area A, no. 1 in Research Area B, no. 2 in Research Area D.

For information about scholarships with reserved research topics see the related webpage.

Additional scholarship: application opened from August 6th to August 9th 2024 - Applicants who already presented a valid application and intend to apply also for the additional scholarship, available after the pubblication of the Call (only in the same Area of the main Application) should fill-in within August 9th 2024 the additional Application tavailable online ("Additional application - Doctoral programme in Informationengineering and Computer Sciences - Additional scholarships and positions, 40th cycle") changing the order of preference if necessary. 

Examination’s schedule and results

Assessment of qualifications: starting from September 3rd 2024 (please note that results will be available at the end of the evaluation, assessment might take several days)

List of exclusions of incomplete applications: published on September 4th 2024
List of exclusions of not admitted foreign title: -

Final rankings: published on September 30th 2024

application/pdfEsiti finali ISI_Final results IECS_40_II(PDF | 499 KB)

Deadline for enrolment: 
Positions with scholarship: October 8th 2024
Positions without scholarship-Reserved positions: October 14th 2024

Information about first year enrollment procedure available at the related web page.

Opportunities within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
More information at https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls and https://www.unitn.it/en/ricerca/110251/italia-domani-italys-recovery-and-resilience-plan-nrrp.

Useful links

Attachments

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documentResearch_proposal_ISI-IECS(DOCX | 14 KB)
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documentStatement_of_purpose_ISI-IECS(DOCX | 14 KB)

Last update: September 30th, 2024