PhD Schools and Programmes

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. 2023-2024 (cycle 39) at the University of Trento are listed below.

Science and Technology

PhD programme	status	deadline
Physics	second call closed	September 4th, 2023
Information Engineering and Computer Science	second call closed	September 5th, 2023
Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering	second call closed	September 4, 2023
Industrial Innovation	call closed	September 6, 2023
Mathematics	call closed	May 18, 2023
Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering	call closed	July 18, 2023
Agrifood and Environmental Sciences	call closed	July 10, 2023
Biomolecular Sciences	call closed	July 5, 2023

Humanities

PhD programme	status	deadline
European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas	call closed	June 1, 2023
Economics and Finance	call closed	September 6, 2023
Forms of cultural exchange and textuality	call closed	June 15, 2023
Sociology and Social Research	call closed	June 20, 2023
Comparative and European legal studies	call closed	June 13, 2023
International studies	call closed	May 9, 2023
Sustainability: Economics, Environment, Management and Society (SUSTEEMS)	call closed	June 20, 2023

Cognitive sciences

PhD programme	status	deadline
Cognitive and Brain Sciences	call closed	May 31, 2023
Cognitive Science	call closed	July 18, 2023

Availability within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)

Ministerial Decree no. 117 of March 2, 2023: call closed
Updates on the page https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls

Ministerial Decree no. 118 of March 2, 2023: call closed
Updates on the page https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls

National Doctoral Programmes and Inter-university Doctoral Programmes

PhD programme	status	deadline
Space Science and Technology - SST	call closed	July 6, 2023

Doctoral Programme in Management: activated from academic year 2023-2024 (39th Cycle), in partnership with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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.