Doctorates are the highest qualifications awarded by the Italian university system.
They provide doctoral students with the skills and knowledge they need to conduct high level research in public and private organizations or develop a professional career, while contributing to the creation of the European area of higher education and of the European research area.
Doctoral programmes are open to students with a Master’s degree (in Italian, "laurea magistrale, specialistica o vecchio ordinamento") or an equivalent foreign degree.
Doctoral programmes for a.y. 2022-2023 (cycle 38) at the University of Trento are listed below.
Science and Technology
PhD programme | status | deadline |
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Physics |
first call: closed |
June 3rd, 2022 September 9th, 2022 |
Information Engineering and Computer Science |
first call: closed |
May 16th, 2022 |
Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering | call closed | August 25th, 2022 |
Industrial Innovation | call closed | August 23rd, 2022 |
Mathematics |
first call: closed |
August 25th, 2022 |
Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering |
call closed |
July 18th, 2022 |
Agrifood and Environmental Sciences | call closed | August 25th, 2022 |
call closed |
June 23, 2022 |
Humanities
PhD programme | status | deadline |
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European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas | call closed | May 19th, 2022 |
Economics and Management | call closed | May 26th, 2022 |
June 15th, 2022 |
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Sociology and Social Research | call closed | May 26th, 2022 |
Comparative and European legal studies | call closed | June 30th, 2022 |
International studies | call closed | May 5th, 2022 |
Sustainability: Economics, Environment, Management and Society (SUSTEEMS) | call closed | May 26th, 2022 |
Cognitive sciences
PhD programme | status | deadline |
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Cognitive and Brain Sciences | call closed | May 31, 2022 |
Cognitive Science | call closed | July 21st, 2022 |
The following PhD programmes will be discontinued after already enrolled students have graduated:
- International Research Doctoral Course “Forms of cultural exchange” - last intake academic year 2021/2022
- Development Economics and Local Systems - DELoS - last intake academic year 2019/2020
- Forms of the text - last intake academic year 2018/2019
National Doctoral Programmes:
PhD programme | status | deadline |
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Space Science and Technology - SST | call closed | August 8th, 2022 |
The University of Trento participates to the:
- National PhD programme in Sustainable Development and Climate Change, which has its administrative seat at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
- National PhD programme in Artificial Intelligence, Society Area, coordinated by CNR and Università degli Studi di Pisa
- National PhD programme in Learning Sciences and Digital Technologies, with administrative seat at the University of Foggia
- National PhD programme in Scientific,Technological and Social Methods Enabling Circular Economy, with administrative seat at the University of Padua
- National PhD programme in Autonomous Systems (Dausy) with administrative seat at the Politecnico di Bari
- National PhD programme in Photovoltaics with administrative seat at the University of Salerno
- National PhD programme in Robotica e macchine intelligenti (DRIM) with administrative seat at the University of Genova
- National PhD programme in Medicina dei Sistemi with administrative seat at the University of Milano
- National PhD programme in Cybersicurezza with administrative seat at the IMT-Lucca.
National operational programme (NOP) on research and innovation 2014-2020
New opportunities to enroll in a PhD course in close contact with industries: 24 grants for innovation and green topics.
The call is available at https://www.unitn.it/en/
Doctoral Programmes offered jointly with foreign Universities:
see https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/80149/h2020-msca-projects