PhD students are required to acquire 144 credits for Research activities. Below are specified the requirements for each year.
1. The PhD student is required to upload on PhD website a unique document in PDF format (name the file “Research project and Report of Scientific Activity_Surname PhD student”) including:
A) The Research project for the entire PhD course (max 3000 words, references excluded).
The structure is the following:
Note: The number of words should be indicated on the title page. It is mandatory to respect the word limit.
B) The Report of the scientific activity of the current academic year (using the template provided by the Coordinator at the beginning of the Academic year).
2. The Supervisor is required to:
A) send to the Coordinator and Vice-Coordinator the evaluation of the work done by the student during the first year (maximum 1 page in English). The evaluation must be signed by all supervisors, and the supervisors must specify whether they are in favor of the PhD student's admission to the next year. Name the file “Evaluation_Surname of the PhD student”.
B) approve the document “Research project and Report of Scientific Activity_Surname PhD student” on PhD website
All PhD students at the end of the I° year are required to give a presentation of their research project in the PhD day. The PhD day will be held in October.
Each student will have 10 minutes to present the PhD project, followed by Q&A session.
1. The PhD student is required to upload on PhD website a unique document in PDF format (name the file “Research Report and Report of Scientific Activity_Surname PhD student”) including:
A) The Research report (max 3000 words, references excluded) consisting of the description of studies accomplished during the II° year. The number of words should be indicated on the title page. The title page must include: University, Department, title of the PhD program, title of the project, name of the PhD student, name of supervisor and co-supervisor, number of words. The format to write the Research report is flexible. However, it is mandatory to report the results of at least one study and to respect the word limit.
B) The Report of the scientific activity of the current academic year (using the template provided by the Coordinator at the beginning of the Academic year).
2. The Supervisor is required to:
A) send the Evaluation of the work done by the student during the second year (maximum 1 page in English) to the Coordinator and ViceCoordinator (mariagrazia.benassi@unibo.it; raffaella.nori@unibo.it). The evaluation must be signed by all supervisors, and the supervisors must specify whether they are in favor of the PhD student's admission to the next year. Name the file “Evaluation_Surname of the PhD student”
B) approve the document “Research project and Report of Scientific Activity_Surname PhD student” on PhD website
Students of the II° year are required to attend the PhD day, in which their colleagues of the I° year will present their projects. The PhD day will be held in October.
1. The PhD student is required to upload on PhD website a unique document in PDF format (name the file “Research Report and Report of Scientific Activity_Surname PhD student”), including:
A) Research report (max 3000 words, references excluded) consisting of a description of the studies accomplished during the PhD course (i.e., brief outline of the PhD thesis). The number of words should be indicated on the title page. The title page must include: University, Department, title of the PhD program, title of the project, name of the PhD student, name of supervisor and co-supervisor, number of words. It is mandatory to respect the word limit.
B) Report of the scientific activity of the entire PhD period (using the template provided by the Coordinator at the beginning of the Academic year).
2. The PhD student is required to provide proof for at least one article accepted for publication in a scientific journal (indexed in Scopus or Web of Science) and at least an additional one submitted for publication by sending to Coordinator and Vice-coordinator (mariagrazia.benassi@unibo.it; raffaella.nori@unibo.it):
A) The editorial pdf of the final version of the accepted article/articles
B) The editorial pdf of the submitted article/articles.
Only articles included in the PhD dissertation should be sent. In the case in which no articles included in the dissertation have been accepted yet, the PhD student is required to send an accepted article related to the topic of the dissertation.
3. The Supervisor is required to:
A) send the evaluation of the work done by the student during the entire PhD period (maximum 1 page in English) to the Coordinator and Vice-coordinator (mariagrazia.benassi@unibo.it; raffaella.nori@unibo.it). The evaluation must be signed by all Supervisors and needs to specify whether the Supervisors are in favor of the PhD student's admission to the final exam. Name the file “Evaluation_Surname of the PhD student”
B) Approve on PhD website the document “Research Report and Report of Scientific Activity_Surname PhD student”.
Deadline: September, 7 2026
The PhD students of the III° year are invited to attend the PhD day, in which their colleagues of the I° year will present their projects. The PhD day will be held in October.