Info Scholarship - PhD Scholarships, The Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Financial Aid Type: 6 PhD Fellowships
Length: Three Years Starting The Academic Year 2008-2009

The Università di Roma “La Sapienza” offers 6 PhD fellowships for attaining the degree of “Dottore di Ricerca” (Ph. D.). Each fellowship amounts to 16,590 € per year (net of government taxes). The Ph.D. programme lasts for three years and may be extended to a fourth year (without grant), subject to approval by the School authorities. At the end of the first and of the second year of attendance, students have to be evaluated as proficient according to the rules of the Schools.

Eligibility

Applications are opened from candidates who:

1. Are not Italian citizens
2. Are not residents of Italy
3. Have obtained abroad an academic qualification by a non-Italian institution equivalent to the Italian “laurea specialistica” or expect to obtain it before July 31st, 2008. The equivalence of each qualification to the relevant Italian degree will be ascertained (for the sole purpose of this competition) by the Academic Board of the Schools.

Selection and Admissions

Applications will be evaluated on the basis of academic qualification by means of the documents listed in 4.2.

The evaluation will be made by a selection Board consisting of the Committee for Ph.D. courses of the Università “La Sapienza” and the representatives of the Ph.D. Schools Coordinators.
Each selected candidate will be assigned to a Doctorate School. Each Doctorate School will decide in which Programme (within those belonging to the School, see Appendix 1) to enrol the candidate on the basis of both his/her preferences and interests.

To submit the applications you must fill the application form available on the website page: http://www.uniroma1.it/

Deadline: February 15th 2008

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