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 to be published ---
Information Engineering and Computer Science to be published ---
Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering to be published ---
Industrial Innovation to be published ---
Mathematics to be published ---
Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering to be published ---
Agrifood and Environmental Sciences to be published ---
Biomolecular Sciences to be published ---

Humanities

PhD programme status deadline
European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas to be published ---
Economics and Finance call open April 23rd, 2024
Forms of cultural exchange and textuality to be published ---
Sociology and Social Research to be published ---
Comparative and European legal studies to be published ---
International studies to be published ---
Sustainability: Economics, Environment, Management and Society (SUSTEEMS) to be published ---

Cognitive sciences

PhD programme status deadline
Cognitive and Brain Sciences to be published ---
Cognitive Science to be published ---

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 to be published ---

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 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):