Phd Scholarships in Economics
Candidates are invited to submit their Pre-Application for admission to the PhD Program in Public Economics offered by the DEFAP, the Graduate School in Public Economics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università di Milano-Bicocca. The duration of the PhD Program is three years.
Deadline: 30 June 2010
Selection Procedure
The selection procedure for admission to the Program, aiming to ascertain candidates’ knowledge, ability and aptitude for scientific research in subjects related to the School, is based on academic merits. No more than 10 candidates are admitted to the Program. Seven scholarships are assigned on academic merits to the candidates admitted to the Program. Each scholarship is for about € 13.600 gross per year. The study grant is increased by 50% per month (for a maximum of eighteen months) for time spent by the student at one of the partner institutions abroad.
The selection procedure has two stages
Stage one
candidates can apply by filling in the Pre-Application form (found in appendix). The Pre-Application form must be sent with the documents listed in Art. 4 to the following address:
Prof. Massimo Bordignon
C/O Defap Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Piazza Buonarroti, 30
20145 – Milan
Italy
The purpose of stage one is to give candidates a preview as to whether they are eligible to admission to the Program. Eligible candidates will be encouraged to re-present their applications during stage two – the official Call for Applications (Bando di Concorso) – which will appear in the Italian Official Journal (Gazzetta Ufficiale) in July/August 2010 (see Art. 5 below). A candidate will be considered eligible if s/he is deemed to have the necessary qualifications and capabilities to start the Program. Whether s/he will effectively be admitted will depend on her/his ranking relative to the other candidates.There is no application fee at this stage. Candidates will be notified of the outcome by e-mail by July 15 at the latest; each candidate will be informed of her/his position in the ranking of eligible candidates.
Stage two
The official Call for Applications (Bando di Concorso) will be published in the Italian Official Journal (Gazzetta Ufficiale) in July 2010 and also posted on the University’s and on the PhD Program’s websites. Candidates who have successfully passed the Pre-Application stage will be invited by e-mail to submit a new application form while they will exonerated from submitting copy of the documentation required on the Art. 4 of Call of Applications they have already send at the stage one.
The Selection Committee will establish a ranking by means of a list of merit of all those candidates who will be considered admissible. Candidates who had also participated at the Pre-Application stage and been declared eligible can be sure to be included in this list of admissible candidates. Candidates will be required to pay an application processing fee of €60. Details of payment will be available in the Call for Applications. All candidates will be notified by e-mail of the definitive admission decision of the Selection Committee.
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