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Monday, August 24, 2009

The University of Udine 25th Cycle of Research Doctorate Grants, Italy

The XXV cycle of Research Doctorate courses has been instituted with the administrative seat in the University of Udine. The research doctorate courses last three years and they will become effective from the 1st January 2010.

The public competition has been announced for admission to the Research Doctorate courses represented in the annexes to this decree (annexes 1-20) of which constitute an integrative part.

Research Doctorate in Chemical and Energy Technology; Industrial Sciences and Information Technology; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Architecture; Economics, Ecology and Preservation of Agricultural and Landscape-Environmental Systems; Agricultural Biotechnological Science; Food Science; Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences; Clinical Science and Technology; the Law and Economics of Productive Systems, Transport and Logistics; Business Sciences; Mathematics and Physics; Computer Science; History of Art; Bibliographic, Archival, Documentary Sciences and the Preservation and Restoration of Archival and Book Heritage; History: Culture and Structures of Frontier Areas; Science of Antiquities; Linguistic and Literary Sciences

The number of positions receiving a grant, indicated in the individual annexes, will be increased should further financing by either private or public bodies be made available after the publication of this call for applications. An increase in the number of grants will result in an increase in the total number of positions available.


This increase will be notified on the following Internet page:
http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Bandi_attivi

The doctorate courses which have fewer than three candidates for admission after the exam procedures, will not be activated.

Art. 2
Admission requirements

Any person, of any age or citizenship (in accordance with the conditions provided for in art. 7) who possesses an Italian degree (in compliance with Ministerial Decree n. 509/1999) or Italian specialist degree (in accordance with Ministerial Decree n. 509/1999 and Decree n. 270/2004) indicated in annexes 1-20, or an equivalent academic title acquired abroad, may apply to participate in the exam.

If the foreign academic title has not been declared equivalent to an Italian degree, the Teaching Board for the Research Doctorate to which the candidate has applied for will decide on the equivalence exclusively for admission to the exam for the chosen Doctorate.

In this case the candidates shall also enclose the following documents:
the academic title translated and legalised by the Italian diplomatic or consular representatives in which the qualification was awarded;
a “Declaration of Worth” of the qualification compiled by same consular body.

Those who will obtain a degree (pre-existing ordinance) or second level degree (new-ordinance) within the date set for the first test of the exam for the Doctorate chosen (annexes 1-20) can participate in the admission exams. In this case access to the exam will be considered “conditional” and the candidate will be required to present the relative certificate or self certification within the day of the first test. Without this the application will be forfeited.

Anyone without the necessary requirements may be excluded by the University at any time.

Art. 3
Application for admission to the exam

The application should be sent by computer filling in the form available on-line within the 25th September 2009, h. 24.00 (Central European Time): http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Bandi_attivi

The candidate must fill in an application form for each Research Doctorate course he/she desires to follow.

Within the 25th September 2009 candidates are obliged to transmit their application by computer, as described above, and within the 28th September 2009 forward the paper copy, undersigned according to one of the following procedures:
Sent by registered post to the following address: Università degli Studi di Udine, Centro Gestione Documenti/Ripartizione Ricerca – Sezione Ricerca Pubblica (Research Services Division), via Palladio n. 8, 33100 Udine. The post mark will validate the date. or
delivered by hand to the Università degli Studi di Udine, Centro Gestione e Documenti, Via Palladio 8, 33100 Udine, respecting the following times: from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 13.00.

Together with the paper copy the following should be attached:
Photocopy of an identity document;
The receipt for the payment of euro 5,00 as “Tassa di concorso” that is not due by candidates resident abroad. The payment should be made in one of the following ways: 1) to current account n. 000024683880 (ABI 07601 CAB 12300 CIN X IBAN IT30X0760112300000024683880) in the name of the Università degli Studi di Udine with the Poste Italiane; 2) to current account n. 000040469443 (ABI 02008 CAB 12310 CIN R IBAN IT23R0200812310000040469443) in the name of the Università degli Studi di Udine with Unicredit Banca S.p.a.
the academic titles, the publications etc. presented for evaluation (annexes 1-20);
the documentation necessary for the Teaching Board to declare the equivalence of an academic qualification obtained abroad, for admission to the exam, ref. art. 2 of this announcement.

The university administration takes no responsibility in the case of loss of communication due:
to possible errors either postal, computer or telegraphic that are not ascribable to the university itself.
to inexact indication of residence or address on the part of the candidate or late communication of the same.

Art. 4
Restitution of academic titles and publications

The documents and publications relative to the selection procedure will be returned personally by hand to those candidates who have requested this or to a person specifically delegated by the candidate, after 180 days from the publication of the final lists and within the following 30 days. Publications presented in original copies and not collected within the 30 days indicated above will be kept at the Centri Interdipartimentali Bibliotecari in order to increase the prestige of the University Library. All the remaining documentation will be eliminated according to the law.

Art. 5
Judging Commission

The competitions Judging Commissions for admission to individual courses for a Doctorate in research are appointed by this present Rectorate Decree referred to in the Annexes 1-20. Each committee, at the first meeting appoints its own President, who must be a first level professor, or in the absence, a second level professor and the Secretary. The tasks of the Judging Commissions conclude with the drafting of a final list of the competition for admission in relation to the respective Doctorate research course and the compilation of the relative reports.

Art. 6
Admission exams

The exams, aimed at evaluating the candidates’ aptitude for scientific research, will take place in accordance with the procedures and dates indicated in annexes 1-20. Candidates will receive no summons at their home addresses.

The final mark, inclusive of the mark for evaluation of academic titles and the mark for the tests, will be expressed as a percentage (100/100).

If the evaluation of academic titles is envisaged, no more than 30 points (30/100) will be attributed to it.

Each commission will carefully consider the academic titles and pinpoint the evaluation criteria and before the start of the exams. The evaluation of the academic titles will take place after the written test and before the correction. Individual candidates will be informed of the results of the evaluation of their academic titles during the oral part of the exam.

Candidates with an overall mark of 70% or more on the tests, written and oral, will be considered eligible.

The final list, only for the eligible candidates, will be made by summing up the marks for the tests to the marks for the evaluation of academic titles, if envisaged.

The Judging Commission may provide separate tests where the doctorate courses are articulated in widely differing curricula, however there will only be one final result list of candidates.

The candidate will also have to demonstrate good knowledge of the foreign language indicated in annexes 1-20 during the oral part of the exam.

In order to sit the exam candidates will have to exhibit an identity document.

Art. 7
Places reserved for candidates resident abroad

Candidates who are resident abroad may also take part only on the basis of evaluation of academic titles, exclusively for the reserved places, if these are envisaged for the individual research doctorate (annexes 1- 20).

Limits to citizenship are posed only where the University recognises particular scientific needs.

These candidates should fill in the application form for the exam, indicating the selection procedures chosen, and attach the academic titles required.

The maximum marks ascribable to candidates will be expressed as a percentage. Candidates with a lower mark than 70/100 will not be considered eligible.

Should the reserved places not be assigned they will be added to the ordinary results list for the doctorate in question by previous opinion of Teaching Board.

Art. 8
Excess admission

The following may be admitted in excess without a grant and within the maximum number provided for in the annexes 1-20, if they are shown to be eligible at the end of the competitive exam and are not among the ‘winners’ (selected candidates):
researchers receiving grants as in L. 449/97, on the condition that the doctorate they are participating in concerns the same scientific area of research as that for which they received their grants;
researchers receiving a research grant, on the condition that the doctorate they are participating in concerns the same scientific area of research as that for which they receive their grant;
public employees who can benefit by instructions specified in art. 2 of the L. 476 of the 13 August 1984;
citizens resident abroad. Excess admission of citizens resident abroad is only provided for candidates who have opted for selection procedures as in art. 6.

Art. 9
Final lists

The final lists will be made public on the 23rd November 2009 exclusively through publication on the following Internet site: http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Bandi_attivi

The list of those admitted in excess will also be published on the same site.

In the case of equal results, evaluation of the economic situation as defined by D.P.C.M. 30.04.97 and later modifications, will prevail.

There will be no communications to home addresses.

Art. 10
Admission to courses and enrolment formalities

Candidates will be admitted to the courses following the order defined by the final exam lists, until the number of places available has been filled. Where a candidate has been shown eligible for more than one course he/she must opt for only one doctorate course.

The candidates who achieve a place, will be required to provide the following documentation within the deadline of the 4th December 2009:
application for enrolment for the first doctorate course, using the form available on the following site: http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Bandi_attivi ;
photocopy of a document proving identity;
photocopy of the receipt of payment of the “Tassa regionale per il diritto allo studio universitario” of euro 100,00 made to current account n. 000040469443 (ABI 02008 CAB 12310 CIN R IBAN IT23R0200812310000040469443)) in the name of the University of Udine with Unicredit Banca S.p.a;
two passport-size photographs.

The documentation required should be:
sent by registered post to the following address: Università degli Studi di Udine, Centro Gestione Documenti/Ripartizione Ricerca – Sezione Ricerca Pubblica (Research Services Division) via Palladio n. 8 33100 Udine. The postmark will not be considered valid for the final date. or
delivered by hand to the Centro gestione e Documenti, Via Palladio 8, 33100 Udine, respecting the following times: from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 13.00.

Applications that arrive after the 4th December 2009 will not be considered and places will be filled taking candidates from further down the list.

The university administration takes no responsibility in case of loss of communication due to possible errors either postal, computer or telegraphic that are not ascribable to the university itself.

Art. 11
Replacements

Candidates who have not regularised their enrolment within the deadlines described in the previous article will be considered as renouncing the course and candidates who give mendacious declarations will be declared ineligible and the vacant places will be allotted to other aspirers in order of the list of exam results, except for the conditions set out in art. 7.

Candidates who are designated to replace other candidates who have renounced or been declared ineligible, will find themselves in a list publicised on the 9th December 2009, on the following Internet site:
http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Bandi_attivi

Those of the above candidates who desire to take the vacant places should send the documentation indicated in art. 10 so that it arrives within the deadline of the 18 th December 2009 following the indications in the same article.

Art. 12
Grants and Contributions

The grants, the number of which can be found in annexes 1-20, will be awarded following the order defined in each respective merit list formed by the Judging Commissions. The grant lasts three years and becomes effective from the 1st January 2010.

The gross annual amount of the grant is 13.638,47 Euro, subject to national insurance (INPS a gestione separata). The amount of the grant will be increased for possible periods of stay abroad by 50%.

The grant will be paid in monthly deferred payments.

Anyone who has used a grant for a doctorate course (even for one year only) may not request one a second time.

Further hindrances in gaining a grant are regulated by the Internal Regulations for the Research Doctorate and by the dispositions of the University Collective Bodies which can be consulted at the following Internet address: http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Informazioni_generali/Normativa

On the date of publication of this announcement, candidates fees for admission to and following the courses are not envisaged except for the Regional tax for the right to study, which, for the academic year 2009/2010, comes to euro 100,00.

The University administration however reserves the right to adopt other arrangements in this regard.

The scholarships financed by external private or public-sector bodies shall only be conferred after confirmation of fund availability.

Art. 13
Attendance and obligations

The enrolled students are obliged to follow the doctorate courses and to do ongoing study and research activities as provided for in the Internal Regulations for Research Doctorates and in the dispositions of the University Collective Bodies which can be consulted at the following Internet address:
http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Informazioni_generali/Normativa

Art. 14
Treatment of Personal Data

Following art. 13 of D.L. 196/03 (“Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali”), information regarding the use of personal data can be viewed at the following Internet address:
http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Informazioni_generali/Normativa

Art. 15
Person in charge of Proceedings

The person responsible for the proceedings is dr.ssa Manuela Croatto, Head of the Research Services Division of the University of Udine.

The referral office at the Università degli Studi di Udine is the Research Services Division, vicolo Florio n. 4 – 33100 Udine, tel. 0432/556377-71-70-83 fax 0432/556299.

Art. 16
Laws and regulations

For all that which has not been specifically mentioned in this announcement, reference can be made to art.

4 of the Law 3 July 1998, n. 210, of the Decreto Ministeriale 30 April 1999, n. 224, to the Internal Regulations for Research Doctorates of the Università degli Studi di Udine and to the dispositions of the University Collective Bodies which can be consulted at the following Internet address:
http://www.uniud.it/ricerca/finanziamenti/dottorato/Informazioni_generali/Normativa



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