[Italy] 115 PhD Scholarships in Architecture, Design, Engineering, and Science at Politecnico di Milano

The Politecnico di Milano has initiated the competition for admission into the 25th cycle of the Doctoral Courses listed below. The number of positions as well as the number of available scholarships, the number of scholarships for special initiatives and the number of surplus positions available for non-EU citizens are specified for each Doctorate Course.

Additional positions and scholarships may become available before the completion of the competition, given all deadlines for application on the part of applicants for the competition for admission and the delivery of the relative documentation required by Article 3 below. For the purposes of effectively activating a Doctoral Course, the minimum number of applicants registered for the doctorate may not be less than three.

The call for applications is open to Italian and non-EU citizens. Displaced individuals are considered non-EU citizens not resident in an EU member state (non-EU citizen).
Admission to the Doctoral Courses will be determined on the basis of an assessment of the educational CV, the cover letters and the proposal for doctoral research project which the applicants must send at the time of their registration to the competition.

With the exception of that provided for by Article 7, the Doctoral Course requires a three-year commitment.

Applications for admission to the competition – one for each Doctoral Course – and the relative attached documentation must be drafted and sent in electronic format by April 30th, 2009 by logging on to the ON-LINE system, available as of March 17th at the website, www.phd-admission. polimi.it

The specified deadline should be considered final and the applicant is responsible for verifying the correct completion of the procedure.

After having filled out the ON-LINE application and attached any relative documentation, the following must be sent in printed format by May 29th, 2009:
1) the duly undersigned application for admission to the competition (printed from the online application system)
2) a photocopy of the receipt of payment of € 25.82
3) a duly undersigned photocopy of the applicant's identification document; a photocopy of the passport is required for non-EU citizens

website link:
http://pcsiwa12.rett.polimi.it/~phdweb/eng/ammissione_borse/bandostranieri25.pdf