Internationalisation

The University promotes the internationalisation of the PhD programme degree by developing forms of collaboration with foreign Universities and Research centres, as well as via participation in international research projects and programmes.

Numerous international collaborations and Erasmus exchange Programs, which connote the Doctorate Council’s activity already, ensure Doctoral candidates the opportunity to be hosted in foreign institutions and hence to develop their theses in cotutelle with the latter. It is mandatory for Doctoral candidates to spend at least a trimester in foreign universities or research institutes, with the Doctorate Council’s authorization. Hosting institutions will be first of all those with which the members of the Council have already established international collaborations and which represent an increasingly developing network. During the research period abroad, the Doctoral candidates will have the opportunity to learn innovative methodologies of research.

In the framework of international agreements (i.e., Erasmus Mundus), foreign PhD students will have the opportunity to spend a research period in the laboratories of the Department for Life Quality Studies in collaboration with its Academic Staff. Thanks to the originality of its trans-disciplinary feature, the Program is likely to attract foreign students, who may be funded with scholarships by their own country or in the framework of international or European exchange Programs. The collaboration of foreign students may also promote international research networks on a larger scale, by pursuing further relationships with different institutions. In order to develop the Program’s international profile, research paths that involve exchange and cotutelles with foreign institutions will be encouraged. To this end, agreements with European and Extra-European universities will be incentivized.