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. 2024-2025 (cycle 40) at the University of Trento are listed below.
Science and Technology
| PhD programme | status | deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Physics | first call closed second call closed |
May 15th, 2024 August 28th, 2024 |
| Information Engineering and Computer Science | first call closed second call closed |
May 7th, 2024 August 5th, 2024 |
| Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering | call closed | August 20th, 2024 |
| Industrial Innovation | call closed | August 1st, 2024 |
| Mathematics | call closed | June 10th, 2024 |
| Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering | call closed | August 18th, 2024 |
| Agrifood and Environmental Sciences | call closed | May 28th, 2024 |
| Biomolecular Sciences | call closed | June 17th, 2024 |
Humanities
| PhD programme | status | deadline |
|---|---|---|
| European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas | call closed | May 21th, 2024 |
| Economics and Finance | call closed | April 23rd, 2024 |
| Forms of cultural exchange and textuality | call closed | May 30th, 2024 |
| Sociology and Social Research | call closed | May 14th, 2024 |
| Comparative and European legal studies | call closed | May 30th, 2024 |
| International studies | call closed | May 8th, 2024 |
| Sustainability: Economics, Environment, Management and Society (SUSTEEMS) | call closed | May 7th, 2024 |
Cognitive sciences
| PhD programme | status | deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Cognitive and Brain Sciences | call closed | June 24th, 2024 |
| Cognitive Science | call closed | June 3rd, 2024 |
Availability within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
Additional scholarships cycle 40: 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 | extended to July 23rd, 2024 |
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Doctoral Programme in Management in partnership with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, activated from academic year 2023-2024 (39th Cycle) |
call published by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
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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 Modena and Reggio Emilia
- 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 Robotics and Intelligent Machines (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 Cybersecurity with administrative seat at the IMT-Lucca
- National PhD programme in Earth Observation with administrative seat at the University La Sapienza - Roma
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National PhD programme in The New Public Administration: data and human resources with administrative seat at the University of Milano Bicocca
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National PhD programme in Kinesiology and Sport Sciences with administrative seat at the University of Verona.
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National operational programme (NOP) on research and innovation 2014-2020
The call is available at https://www.unitn.it/en/nop-call (call closed).
Doctoral Programmes offered jointly with foreign Universities:
see https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/80149/h2020-msca-projects
PhD programmes will be discontinued (after already enrolled students have graduated):
- Economics and Management - last intake academic year 2022/2023
- International Research Doctoral Course “Forms of cultural exchange” - last intake academic year 2021/2022