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.

Availability within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
The University of Trento is opening a call to assign no. 18 scholarships funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4, Component 2.
The call is available at https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls.
Deadline for application is October 17, 2022.

Availability within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
The University of Trento is opening a call to assign no. 18 scholarships funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4, Component 1, Investment 4.1
The call is available at https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls.
Deadline for application is August 2, 2022.

Availability within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
The University of Trento is opening a call to assign no. 37 scholarships co-funded by the companies and the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4, Component 1, Investment 3.3
The call is available at https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls.
Deadline for application is August 23, 2022.

Doctoral programmes for a.y. 2022-2023 (cycle 38) at the University of Trento are listed below.

Science and Technology

Humanities

Cognitive sciences

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:

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/nop-call. Deadline for application is October 27, 2021.

Doctoral Programmes offered jointly with foreign Universities:

see https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/80149/h2020-msca-projects