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Call for PhD programmes 2024/2025 at Ca' Foscari University

The call for applications to the 40th cycle of Ca' Foscari PhD programmes is open, starting in a.y. 2024/2025.

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23. 5. 2024 at 13.00

Call for tender

Opportunities for students, Opportunities for researchers, EUTOPIA

Our Italian partner is offering 109 scholarships, representing a total investment of over EUR 8 million. Additionally, further funding from the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) will be available for specific PhD programmes, such as those in Public Administration and Cultural Heritage, and for innovative PhDs that foster business innovation and researcher recruitment.

Application deadline: 1:00 pm CEST on Thursday, 23 May 2024.

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Welcome to Ca’ Foscari University. Since 1868 – when it was founded as the first Business School in Italy - Ca’ Foscari has always constituted a crossroads of studies, activities, people and events and an important cultural point of reference. Located in the very centre of Venice, one of Italy’s busiest maritime ports and by nature a crossroads for encounter and exchange, Ca’ Foscari University has always looked beyond national borders – as the levels of excellence it has reached in teaching foreign languages and the extensive, tight, international network of relationships it has developed demonstrate. The university’s high standards in teaching, research and innovation directed at the territory are met and integrated with an ample, wide-ranging offering of cultural events, numbering over 800 including conferences, exhibitions, film and theatre dates, destined not only for the university community but for the entire world as well. Herein lies the extra value for those who choose Ca’ Foscari.

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Ca'Foscari Opens Calls for PhD Programmes 2024/2025

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Programmes and courses

Study in Venice offers you 77 bachelor’s degree, 81 master’s degrees, 65 professional master’s degrees, 22 PhD programmes, 35 pre-academic courses, as well as international summer courses and many single thematic and language courses at the four higher education institutions of Venice: Ca' Foscari University of Venice , Iuav University , Music Conservatory Benedetto Marcello and Venice Academy of Fine Arts .

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Iuav university, music conservatory benedetto marcello of venice, venice academy of fine arts.

Ca’ Foscari offers innovative and interdisciplinary education with single courses, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and PhD programmes, international joint degrees with prestigious partner universities.

You can specialize in international relations and politics , or prefer conservation and cultural asset management, or humanities and linguistic with an offer of over 40 languages. Scientific fields include such specializations as climate change, computer science or nanotechnology.

Specializations in economics and management can be taken in either Italian or English .

English-taught courses How to apply & Scholarships

Ca’ Foscari University offers:

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice also offers summer courses with the School for International Education .

School for International Education (SIE)

SIE promotes learning in a cross-cultural environment with university-level courses for international students (Italian language and culture, thematic courses held in English) and a variety of activities to experience and discover Venice, its lagoon and its culture.

SIE organizes courses aimed to prepare international students for enrolment at Italian Universities or Higher Education Institutions: Marco Polo / Turandot (for Chinese students), Bridge Year , Foundation Year .

Further, students can enrol in joint summer schools with prestigious international universities such as Harvard University and Columbia University of New York.

As an internationally renowned school of architecture with a praised history, Università Iuav di Venezia extends its education offer to other planning disciplines: design and multimedia, urban planning, fashion, visual arts, theatre.

Education at Iuav distinguishes itself for the constant dialogue between disciplines to build up-to-date professional skills in a global scenario and in line with the current transformation processes.

The innovative education approach of Iuav turns it into a School where you learn in laboratories the art of doing, in direct contact with the most qualified teachers in their own disciplines and with successful professionals from around the world.

Aware of the impact of surroundings and built spaces on the quality of daily life, Iuav identified quality as a fil rouge both for training and research: have a positive impact with one’s work on the outside world is an essential part of the University’s mission.

The “Iuav experience” , its inherited knowledge and planning methods are exported worldwide: over 140 teachers and researchers graduated from Iuav before teaching and working in universities and research centres all around Europe and beyond.

Courses How to apply

Iuav University offers:

Marco polo and turandot programmes.

The Italian language programme for Marco Polo and Turandot students is organised by the SIE in cooperation with Ca' Foscari University of Venice, IUAV University, Venice Academy of fine arts and Music conservatory Benedetto Marcello, and promotes a variety of highly qualified courses tailored to students’ prospective degree choices.

The aim of the programme is to provide Chinese students with proficiency in Italian language and culture and to prepare them for enrolment at Italian universities or higher education institutions.

Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello offers university-level courses through its 7 departments and 3 areas , with theoretical and practical fields (strings, winds, singing and musical theatre, keyboard instruments, theory and analysis, didactic, new technologies, early music, chamber music, opera studios).

The relationship between students and their professors is a key characteristic of the Conservatorio. One-to-one classes are offered following the strong Venetian tradition of musical studies for both instruments and composition . Professors are involved in a close relation to few students in chamber music as well with small groups of two to ten musicians. This laboratory approach allows for concrete results.

The conservatory has always imposed limited admission to guarantee the quality of its students and to provide its graduates with concrete high quality job opportunities including them in musical and theatre productions since the beginning of their studies.

How to apply

Music Conservatory Benedetto Marcello offers:

Each partner university opens its libraries to its enroled students: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and its 4 libraries specialized in economics, linguistics and literature, humanities and scientific fields; IUAV University and its library specialized in arts, architecture, design, fashion and urban planning; Music conservatory Benedetto Marcello and its library specialized in music; Academy of fine arts and its library specialized in arts, architecture, costume and production design, photography. Venice also offers access to a vast archive of literature in its many prestigious public libraries all linked by a unified Online Public Access Catalogue.

Painting, sculpture, decoration, graphic art, scenography, new technologies for art are the schools that organize the education offer of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice and from which students can graduate from a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree.

A Bachelor’s degree programme aims to ensure mastery of artistic methods and techniques, specific skills acquisition in the chosen field to train professionals who can develop their research through the plurality of languages and innovations that characterize contemporaneity in respect to the chosen discipline.

The Master’s degree programme lasts for two years and aims to provide students with an advanced training for a complete mastery of artistic methods and techniques, advanced professional skills acquisition in the chosen field. Both laboratory courses and theoretical courses are offered. The plan of studies does not limit training to a single field and is open to many artistic expressions, enriched by the contributions of laboratory experience, to shape an artist, a cultural operator, a professional in visual and performing arts.

The Accademia di Belle Arti takes part in the Erasmus Project and is therefore connected to the most prestigious international universities. It started collaborating with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Fondazione Culturale Paolina Paulon, as a member of the Turandot Project.

The Accademia di Belle Arti also collaborates with the Theatre La Fenice for scenographic projects of operas.

Venice Academy of Fine Arts offers:

Ca' Foscari University of Venice | University of Sassari    

23-24 September 2024

Sasca ph.d. conference 2024, ca' foscari university of venice and the university of sassari are pleased to invite you to the sasca ph.d. conference in economics 2024 . the event will take place on september 23-24, at the department of economics, ca' foscari university (italy). the conference will bring together promising ph.d. students from many institutions to encourage the exchange of ideas and networking., we are pleased to be hosting françois maniquet (uclouvain) and nicola limodio (bocconi university) as keynote speakers., submissions in any economic field are welcome by ph.d. students and researchers who have just completed their ph.d. we are looking for complete and work-in-progress papers in microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, applied microeconomics, applied macroeconomics, finance and banking, environmental and ecological economics,  behavioural and experimental economics, econometrics and quantitative methods.  you can apply with your full article .  submissions will be evaluated by a scientific committee. , during the conference, each presentation will include a discussion and a brief q&a session..

Please note that there is no participation fee to attend. 

Applications are now closed!

For any inquiry, please send an e-mail to [email protected] .

 Keynote Speakers

François Maniquet

Professor of Economics at Université Catholique de Louvain ( UCLouvain ) , affiliated with CORE and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research. 

His research focuses on Welfare Economics, Poverty Economics, and Political Econom y . His works have been published in top academic journals such as The Review of Economic Studies , Econometrica , American Journal of Political Science , Journal of Economic Theory , Journal of Economic Literature .

Nicola Limodio

Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University , affiliated with CEPR & JPAL.  

His research focuses on the study of financial institutions in emerging markets, at the intersection between Finance, Political Economy, and Development Economics. His work has been published in top academic journals such as The Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica , The Review of Financial Studies , American Economic Review , Management Science .

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Admission to the PNRR 40th cycle (a. y. 2024/2025) for National Doctoral Degree Programme in Polar Sciences and to additional places with scholarship: Call for applications

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Call for application for Admission to the PNRR 40th cycle (a. y. 2024/2025) for:

• National Doctoral Degree Programme in Polar Sciences 

and to additional places with scholarship for the PhD Programmes in: 

• Philosophy and Educational Sciences, 
• Italian Studies, 
• Modern Languages, Cultures, and Societies and Linguistics, 
• Management, 
• Asian and African Studies,
• Computer Science

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PhD scholarship on Buddhist and Tibetan Studies

Ca' Foscari University of Venice has announced a PhD scholarship on Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, co-funded by the PNRR and the Italian Buddhist Union. 

Deadline : August 19, 2024, at 1:00 PM (Italian time)

Information : https://www.unive.it/web/en/7712/pnrr-scholaships-call  

The English version of the call is available here: https://www.unive.it/web/fileadmin/user_upload/dottorati/doc/accesso/bando_40/bando_40_pnrr/Bando_PNRR_40_Allegati_A_e_B_ENG.pdf

The Italian version of the call is available here: https://www.unive.it/web/fileadmin/user_upload/dottorati/doc/accesso/bando_40/bando_40_pnrr/Bando_PNRR_40_Allegati_A_e_B.pdf  

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PhD in Economics

Final results - call for applications 40th cycle (a.y. 2024/2025).

Applications and Selections are closed. You will find all results, according to the schedule, on the page dedicated to Selections .

For further information, please contact the PhD Office ( [email protected] )

PhD overview

In partnership with eurizon asset management.

The partnership with Eurizon Asset Management is defined as "Dottorato Industriale". The "Dottorato Industriale" is a method of collaboration between the University and labour market, defined by the Ministerial Decree of 14 December 2021 n. 226. This type of collaboration allows companies to train , strengthening their skills , their permanent employees as part of a PhD course. The company interested in the "Dottorato Industriale" must be engaged in research activities, possibly attested by patents and technical-scientific publications. The training is developed jointly by the company and the Faculty of the PhD programme involved and includes both the attendance of university courses and research activity. The doctoral student is supervised by two supervisors , one in the academia and one within the company.

Educational aims

The PhD programme offers advanced training in the areas of economic and financial sciences, with a particular specialisation in quantitative and qualitative analysis of the numerous aspects and issues within financial-economic systems, at both a microeconomic level (how markets, economic organisations and businesses function, and predictions on their trends and prospects) and a macroeconomic level (issues regarding economic cycles and unemployment, and the impact of specific social and economic factors).

The programme is taught entirely in English.

Research themes

• Microeconomics;
• Macroeconomics;
• Economic theory;
• Public economics;
• Labour economics;
• Health economics;
• Economics of ageing;
• Experimental economics;
• Computational economics;
• Regional economics;
• Econometrics;
• Bayesian econometrics;
• Financial econometrics;
• Financial economics;
• Quantitative finance;
• Mathematical economics;
• Economic statistics.

Professional profiles

Professional profiles obtainable by the program are typically those needed to work in academic departments, mainly in economics and finance; national and international organizations conducting economic research for various purposes, like Ministries, national and super-national Central Banks, financial and economic bodies of the EU, international organizations like OECD, World Bank, etc.; financial private institutes, like banks, insurance companies, investment and retirements funds; other public and private organizations requiring expert knowledge in economics, like those offering service professions in consulting, market research, management, economic journalism.

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• Expense reimbursement for mobility
• Housing, canteens, sport, culture
• Student collaborations
• Studying abroad
• University Language Centre (CLA)
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• Working in research

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