Opportunities
At this page PhD Candidates will find information about opportunities, such as grants for mobility, call for papers, events. Further opportunities, more specific for each scientific field, may be found on the PhD Programmes websites.
Other recommended sources:
EURAXESS - Researcher in motion
Research Professional (access with UniTO SCU credential)
DAAD Italy
Institut français Italia
Fulbright Italy
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships
NSP - National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic
Internships e Fellowships - Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat
Fondazione 1563 di Compagnia di San Paolo
Progetti di Public Engagement d'Ateneo
DAAD Italy
Institut français Italia
Fulbright Italy
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships
NSP - National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic
Internships e Fellowships - Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat
Fondazione 1563 di Compagnia di San Paolo
Progetti di Public Engagement d'Ateneo
The project Research for UNITA (Re-Unita) presents the Re-UNITA Open Innovation Prize, to boost open innovation in the UNITA community and to contribute to the co-creation of Innovation between the academic world and industry.
The Innovation Prize 2024 competition rewards the three (3) best Ideas from all kind of themes, on an open-ended basis, presented by young university students, professors, researchers, startups, or spinoffs.
All applicants should present projects that:
- are within the Knowledge Intensive Services
- answer to the social and societal challenges.
- The research teams hailing from the six Re-UNITA partners (students, professors, researchers enrolled for the 2023-2024 academic year), the spin-off and start-up companies that belong to, or are issued from, their incubators, are eligible to apply.
- Promoters of original ideas, preferably associated with the ability to economically exploit existing scientific and technological knowledge in society and/or research and development processes for new or significantly improved products and processes, with those processes coming from the six Re-UNITA partners.
Applications must be submitted through the application form.
Deadline for application: 10th June 2024
Contact: unita.office@univ-smb.fr
Re-UNITA’s Seeding Proof of Concept program will provide seeding funding for a small proof of concept project among those presented by research teams involving at least two Re-UNITA partners.
The objective of this call is to empower R&I based entrepreneurship in the UNITA community and to contribute to the cooperation between members of the different universities of Re-UNITA project.
Selected projects will be provided a grant of 3,500 €.
Deadline for applications: Participating teams can send their project report to info.reunita@unizar.es until 17th May 2024.
More details can be found on the link: https://www.research.univ-unita.eu/en/events/reunita-seeding-proof-of-concept.html
For any information, you can contact your local UNITA Offices, or info.reunita@unizar.es.
“My three-minute PhD thesis” is a research communication competition open to all PhD Candidates of the nine participating universities of UNITA-UNIVERSITAS MONTIUM and partners, in any field from their second year, where PhD Candidates should present their research in an effective way to a non-specialized audience.
Your challenge: present your research work in 3 minutes in an easy-to-understand way to a non-specialist audience in ENGLISH.
The competition will be organized in two steps:
First step: on-line training and local competition in each of the 9 participating universities. Selection of 2 (or 3 for UNIZAR and UNITO) PhD candidates by university for the final competition. The local competition will be held at the beginning of May (date to be selected between 1st-17th May).
You will beneficiate from an online training of 5 hours in April (1-26 April) in groups of about 10 PhD candidates from different European universities of the UNITA alliance.
Second step: face-to-face training and final competition at the University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour (South-West of France) from 1 to 5 July 2024, within a Unita event, that will gather many UNITA partners from all over the Alliance.
Selected PhD Candidets will benefit from an additional face-to-face training before the final. This additional training emphasizes oral expression in stressful situations, covering voice control, gestures and behaviour mastery, as well as managing contact with the jury and the audience.
Come and boost your communication skills, and apply by filling the Google form before 10 March 2024.
There will be only 10 PhD candidates in the local competition. So, do not miss your chance and apply now!
The criteria for these selections are reported in the RULES FILE (to be read before applying).
Would you have any question, please see the rules file for more details or ask direzione.scuoladottorato@unito.it
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Si ricorda che coloro a cui è stato assegnato un contributo di mobilità per periodi di ricerca all’estero attraverso il bando dedicato (2023) sono tenuti, a dimostrazione dello svolgimento del periodo di ricerca e/o formazione all’estero, a compilare il form di chiusura entro il 31 gennaio 2024.
Nel form è necessario caricare l’allegato C debitamente compilato e sottoscritto dal/dala richiedente e controfirmato dal/dalla Supervisor e dal Coordinatore o Coordinatrice del corso di dottorato.
La mancata compilazione dell’Allegato C e/o il mancato svolgimento di un periodo di ricerca all’estero o lo svolgimento di un periodo inferiore ai 90 giorni nell’anno 2023, comporterà il recupero dell’intero importo attribuito.
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As proof that the research and/or training period has been carried out abroad, the recipients of the mobility grant must send to the PhD Area by 31 January 2024, by using the closing form, the declaration of completion of the minimum period of 90 days of mobility abroad (Annex C) duly filled in and signed by the applicant and countersigned by the Supervisor and the Coordinator.
Failure to fill in the Annex C and/or failure to carry out a research period abroad or carrying out a period of less than 90 days in the year 2023 will result in the recovery of the entire amount.
Bando per l’assegnazione di contributi di mobilità per periodi di ricerca all’estero di dottorande e dottorandi - Anno 2023 - attraverso il fondo Programmazione Triennale 2021-2023 (azione D1 “esperienze di studio e di ricerca all’estero - borse: integrazione della maggiorazione per il periodo all’estero dei dottorandi)
Con il programma PhD Around the World, UniTo promuove la mobilità per periodi di ricerca all’estero di dottorande/i con uno stanziamento di 250 mila euro.
L’assegnazione dei fondi avverrà attraverso la partecipazione a un bando e fino all’esaurimento del budget stanziato.
Possono partecipare al bando dottorande/i che svolgeranno un periodo di mobilità all’estero nel 2023 di almeno 90 giorni, con i seguenti requisiti:
- essere regolarmente iscritte/i a Corsi di Dottorato con sede amministrativa presso l’Università di Torino
- avere lo status di dottoranda/o per tutta la durata della mobilità
- essere in regola con il versamento dei contributi relativi all’iscrizione al Dottorato
Si prega di verificare le incompatibilità previste dal bando all'art. 3.
Deadline per presentare la domanda: 31 gennaio 2023.
PhD Around the World è un programma che ha l’obiettivo di promuovere la mobilità internazionale di dottorandi e dottorande di UniTo e prevede numerose iniziative, comprese attività di formazione che verranno avviate nel corso del 2023.
Tutte le news sul programma verranno pubblicato in questa sezione.
Documentazione
Bando (D.R. 6553 del 22/12/22)
Allegato A
Allegato B (editabile)
Allegato C (editabile)
Lettera accettazione contributo (editable)
Scorrimento graduatoria II (4/3/24)
Call for the award of mobility grants to Ph.D. candidates for spending research stays abroad - Year 2023 - funded by UniTO three-years Planning 2021-2023 approved by resolution 7/2021/11/1 by the Board of Directors
UniTo promotes international research mobility for PhD Candidates with individual grants through the PhD Around the World program.
The total budget allocated is 250 thousand Euros.
To access the grant, PhD Candidates must participate to the selection; grants will be awarded until the end of resources.
PhD Candidates are required to spend an international mobility period of at least 90 days in 2023.
All PhD Candidates meeting the following requirements may apply:
- to be properly enrolled in a Ph.D. Program whose administrative seat is at the University of Torino;
- to keep their status as a Ph.D. candidate throughout the duration of the mobility.
- to be in compliance with the Ph.D. fee payment;
Applicants are required to check incompatibilities as per art. 3 of the Call.
To participate to the Call, you must send your application by the 31st January 2023.
PhD Around the World is a project that aims to promote UniTo PhD Candidates international mobility. Further activities will be part of the program such as training moments that will take place during 2023.
All news about future initiatives will be published at this page.
Documents
Call - English Executive Summary (R.D. nr. 6553 of 22/12/2022)
Annex A
Annex B (editable)
Annex C (editable)
My three-minute PhD thesis competition 2023 - First edition
“My three-minute PhD thesis” is a research communication competition open to all PhD Candidates of the nine participating universities of UNITA-UNIVERSITAS MONTIUM and partners, in any field from their second year, where PhD Candidates should present their research in an effective way to a non-specialized audience.
Your challenge: present your research work in 3 minutes in an easy-to-understand way to a non-specialist audience in ENGLISH.
To help you, you will beneficiate from an online training of 7 hours between April and June 2023 in groups of about 10 PhD Candidates from different European universities of the UNITA alliance.
The competition will be organized in two steps:
- First step: local competition in each of the 9 participating universities. Selection of 2 PhD candidates by university for the final competition (before mid-July);
- Second step: final face-to-face competition in Pau (University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour, South-West of France) on 22nd of September, within a Geminae event, that will gather many UNITA partners from all over the world.
Come and boost your communication skills, and apply at this LINK before March 23rd at 23:55.
Please note that there will be only 12 PhD candidates in the UNITO local competition, who will be chosen by a board of the UNITO Doctoral School, based on the motivation paragraph to be written in the Google form.
So, do not miss your chance and apply now!
Please note that priority will be given to PhD Candidates working at UNITO.
Of those 12 participants, the 2 finalists taking part in the second step will be selected after the training, i.e. late June.
The criteria for these selections are reported in the RULES FILE (to be read before applying).
For further question: direzione.scuoladottorato@unito.it
NEWS!
The first step of the competition took place on the 28th of June.
The 12 UniTO participants give their 3 minutes presentation in front of the appointed jury and now we have the name of the 2 finalists who will participate to the final face-to-face competition in Pau. They are:
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PhD Candidate |
PhD Program |
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Kirti Tiwari |
Scienze chimiche e dei materiali |
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Valeria Vasciaveo |
Medicina e terapia sperimentale |
Here's the Director Decree for the appointments of the jury:
My 3 Minutes PhD Thesis Commission
And here the minutes with the final ranking list:
First Step Local Competition Minutes and Ranking List
UNITA and the Doctoral School thank all the participants for their brilliant presentation.
The final competition took place at the University of Pau on the 22nd September 2023.
Winners announcement - Final Competition