Italy – 2008 / 2009 Free University of Bozen – Bolzano Grants for PhD Research Programmes in Computer Science and Pedagogy

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano announces a public competition, by examinations and/or qualifications, for admission to the following PhD Research Programmes of the 24th cycle, academic year 2008/2009.

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Duration: 3 years
Scientific areas: INF 01 Computer science and ING-INF 05 Information Processing Systems
Official language of course: English
A public competition for the allocation of 14 places is announced of which 7 will be covered by grants of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

GENERAL PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL PEDAGOGY AND GENERAL EDUCATION
Duration: 3 years
Scientific areas: M-PED/01 General and Social Pedagogy and M-PED/03 Didactics and Special Pedagogy
Official languages of course: Italian and German
A public competition for the allocation of 8 places is announced of which 5 will be covered by grants of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

Admission
Admission to the public competition of the aforementioned PhD Research Programmes (see previous article) is open to all (without limitations of sex, age and citizenship) those who possess a Master degree (Laurea specialistica) (according to Ministerial Decree no. 509 of 3.11.1999), a graduate degree of the old regulation or a foreign degree equivalent to the degrees above mentioned.

Applicants who have a foreign degree which has not already been officially recognised as being equivalent to an Italian degree must request recognition in their application for the present competition. In such cases the necessary documents should be enclosed with the application in order to enable the PhD Course Committee to write a declaration of value of such degree, valid
only for the purpose of admission to the public competition the candidate wishes to apply for. In particular, following documents have to be attached to the application:

• the degree certificate (EU citizens can attach a self-certification according to Presidential Decree no. 445 of December 28, 2000)
• a translation in English of the degree certificate with exams and scores obtained, signed under their own responsibility.

Successful applicants who have a foreign degree have to present their degree certificate with the examinations passed and the scores obtained, translated and authenticated by an Italian consulate, embassy or diplomatic representative in the country of the university that issued the degree together with the respective declaration of value (“Dichiarazione di valore”) not later than the deadline for enrolment for the PhD Research Programme.

Admission is also open to those who will finish their degree within the date established for the first test or the evaluation procedure of their degree. In such cases admission will be permitted “on condition” and the candidate will be obliged to present the relative degree certificate or self-certification (according to Presidential Decree no. 445 of December 28, 2002, only EU citizens) one day prior of the thest or the evaluation procedure of the title, otherwise the candidate will not be admitted.

For the admission to the PhD course in COMPUTER SCIENCE good knowledge of the English language is required. The Evaluation Committee will evaluate the applicants’ knowledge during the selection process.

For the admission to the PhD course in GENERAL PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL PEDAGOGY AND GENERAL EDUCATION good knowledge of Italian, German and English is required. The applicants’ knowledge will be verified during the oral part of the entrance exam.

Application for admission to the Public Competition
Application should be made on paper with the documents, as requestd on the form, to be enclosed.
The form can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.unibz.it/research/phdcourses/index.html?LanguageID=EN

Applications must be submitted:

• for the PhD course in COMPUTER SCIENCE: to the secretariat of the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • hand delivered from 9.00 to 12.00 hrs and 14.30 to 16.30 hrs;
  • by mail to the following address: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano (BZ); to the attention of Federica Cumer

  The application must be submitted no later than October 20, 2008.

• for the PhD course in GENERAL PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL PEDAGOGY AND GENERAL EDUCATION: to the secretariat of the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • hand delivered from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 12.00 hrs and 14.00 to 16.00 hrs;
  • by mail to the following address: Faculty of Education, Viale Stazione 16, 39042 Brixen-Bressanone (BZ)

  The application must be submitted no later than September 26, 2008.

For more information, download the announcement.

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