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PhD is the highest academic educational level in Italy.
It provides the necessary skills to perform high-quality research activity both in public and private bodies, so as qualifying skills for professional life: PhD provides also an important contribution to the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area.
PhD programmes are open, without age or citizenship limits, to all those who already hold a "laurea magistrale" or equivalent academic title awarded abroad.
PhD programmes available at the University of Trento for the academic year 2018/2019 (34th cycle):
Science & Technology
- Physics
- Information and Communication Technolog, first call 2018, deadline for applications: May 31, 2018
- Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
- Mathematics: first call 2018, closed May 16, 2018
- Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering: first call 2018, deadline for applications: August 22, 2018; second call 2018, deadline for applications: August 27, 2018
- Biomolecular Sciences
Humanities
- European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas deadline for applications: May 17, 2018
- Development Economics and Local Systems - DELoS (within the framework of the School of Social Sciences) deadline for applications: May 22, 2018
- Economics and Management (within the framework of the School of Social Sciences) deadline for applications: May 22, 2018
- Forms of text deadline for applications: May 17, 2018
- Sociology and Social Research (within the framework of the School of Social Sciences) deadline for applications: May 22, 2018
- Comparative and European legal studies
- International studies deadline for applications: May 24, 2018
Cognitive sciences
- Cognitive and Brain Sciences deadline for applications: May 31, 2018
- Cognitive Science deadline for applications: July 31, 2018
The following PhD programmes will remain active until students enrolled on the programmes graduate
- Psychological sciences and education - last activated academic year 2016/2017
- Humanities - last activated academic year 2013-2014
- Local Development and Global Dynamics - last activated academic year 2013-2014
- Environmental engineering - last activated academic year 2012-2013
Doctoral programmes in cooperation with other Universities