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The ICT doctorate involves prestigious universities and research institutions as formal partners, providing the opportunity for doctoral students to obtain a double international research doctorate degree. This is an effective formula for training doctoral students towards a broad vision of research activity and an ability to work with different teams and environments.

Double degrees
To encourage exposure to different skills, in such a rapidly evolving sector such as ICT, the Doctorate in Information and Communication Technologies was born as an international doctorate, with 8 foreign professors included in the College and the opportunity to obtain double qualifications with the prestigious Canadian institute INRS, the University of Belgrade and other European universities. In particular, the University of Palermo and the INRS have been collaborating since 2008 on various research topics including: non-linear optical phenomena; ultra-fast optics; THz spectroscopy. Already 3 doctoral students have achieved dual degrees, including one doctoral student who received the Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal for her achievements.
The course is currently also included in a European Training Network (Marie Curie action), on the topic of communications with visible light.

Other collaborations
The Doctorate in ICT has actively collaborated with the ARCA business incubator, collaborates with the Technological Districts of Sicily, the Liason Office for patents and is involved in various European project consortia.
Collaborations have been established with AEIT (Italian Association of Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automation, Informatics and Telecommunications), CINI (National Inter-university Consortium for Informatics), CINE (National Inter-university Consortium for Electronics), CNIT (National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications ), EnSiEL (National Interuniversity Consortium for Energy and Electrical Systems), ICEMB (Interaction between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems), MESE (University Consortium of Metrics and Measurement Technologies on Electrical Systems), of which the Engineering Department hosts some local branches .