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Educational Aims and Objectives

The PhD program is oriented to the research in the scientific fields belonging to the economic, business and statistic area. It is structured in three curricula corresponding to three different macro areas, i.e.

-        economic area;

-        business area;

-        statistic area.

The first year of the PhD program will provide a first part of educational activities common to the three different macro areas while, in the remaining years, specific educational activities will be provided for the different curricula.

The first part of the common activities (about 100 hours of educational activities will be provided in the first year) is devoted to the learning of the basic notions which are commons to the three different macro areas. In the first year will be also provided a set of common knowledge useful for the interdisciplinary exchange. The remaining years are primarily devoted to the scientific knowledge specific for the three different curricula.

A part of the common educational activities is devoted to the teaching in the field of management of research, in the field of knowledge of research systems and, finally, in language skills. About 80 hours will be used for this part of the PhD program which will be carried out in the first two years.

Each curriculum will have a maximum of 300 hours of specific didactic and seminar activities. These activities will be carried out in the first and second year of the PhD program while the third year will be devoted only to seminar activities.

- A small number of educational activities, which will be a part of the common activities, will be borrowed from the Master's degrees.

 

	I year	II year	III year	Total
Common activites belonging to the area number 13	90	10	0	100
Other common activities	45	25	12	82
Curricular activities	90	190	20	300
Total	225	225	32	482

Distribution of teaching hours according to the year and to the type of activity

 

Timetable

 

First year           

January: first assignment of the supervisor;

 

July: definition of a research topic chosen by the PhD student with the agreement of the PhD board

October: definition of a research topic chosen by the PhD board;         (at least one of the talks must be in English)

December: admission to the second year;

 

Second year

 

April: definition of a research topic chosen by the teaching committee;

September: - final assignment of the supervisor;  - first definition of the subject of the PhD dissertation;

December: admission to the third year;

 

Third year (this year is primarily devoted to the PhD dissertation)

June: evaluation of the progress of the PhD dissertation;

The PhD student will spend a period of 6/12 months in an external academic institution