The ET-IT Board plans and manages the Ph.D. Programme: it is responsible for the scientific and educational activities within the doctoral course.
Being ET-IT a joint doctorate, the board is composed of members from the University of Bologna and from Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).
In details, the Ph.D. board:
Coordination of the Ph.D. Board is entrusted to a professor belonging to the University.
The Ph.D. Programme Director is elected by the Ph.D. Board among its members and appointed by the Rector's Decree. He/She has a three-year tenure.
He/She oversees the activities of the Ph.D. program, convenes and chairs the Ph.D. Board.
The Ph.D. Programme Director now in office is prof. Alessandra Costanzo.
Every academic year ET-IT enrolls about 14 - 16 Ph.D. students.
Each student joins a research group in one of the DEI and FBK laboratories in Bologna, Cesena or Trento.
In accordance with his/her supervisor, the students starts immediately to develope the research project.