Call for application

Doctoral Programme in Industrial Innovation 41th cycle
 The Call is CLOSED

Admission requirements and topics

The requirements and application procedure are detailed in the PhD Call (see the "Downloads" area on the right). Only the Italian version of the PhD Call is legally binding.
To participate in the PhD Call, applicants must have an academic degree which grants access to a third level education programme (PhD) in the country it was issued. In particular, applications are accepted from applicants who hold:

♦  an Italian “Laurea magistrale” instituted in conformity with Italian Ministerial Decree 270/2004, or
♦  a university degree of the previous regulations (Italian "Laurea specialistica " or "Diploma di Laurea"), or
♦  an equivalent degree obtained abroad (Master's degree) and recognized as equivalent to the Italian "Laurea magistrale" by the Admissions Committee for the sole purposes of admission to the Doctoral programme, also within the framework of mobility and cooperation inter-university agreements.

Applications are also accepted from students who expect to complete their degree by 31 October 2025.
The selection is based on the evaluation of the applicant’s titles and qualifications.

Deadline: August 26th, 2025 | 16:00 (CEST)

The application must be sent exclusively via the online system: Doctoral Programme Applications . Applications sent by other means are not accepted.

To obtain an account at the University of Trento, register at  https://webapps.unitn.it/Registration/en/Home. It is strongly recommended not to wait until the last few days prior to the deadline to submit your application.
After completing and sending the application, please make sure to receive an email notification confirming the definitive completion of the application procedure.

Applicants may also opt for additional scholarships and positions reserved to employees of partner companies, which will be available AFTER the publication of this call and published on the selection website.

PLEASE NOTE:

Applicants who will have the application open after the publication of additional scholarships or positions reserved to employees of partner companies can apply for those scholarships by using the entry “Other” in the proper section of the application online.

Applicants who will have already closed and sent the application before the publication of additional scholarships or positions reserved to employees of partner companies can apply for those scholarships/positions by an additional online application that will be made available.

The selected applicants, during the enrolment procedure, might be required to sign a specific declaration of commitment to confidentiality and transfer of intellectual property rights, to allow the University to comply with the obligations regarding intellectual property towards the funding body. 

The list below provides a short non-exhaustive summary of what to upload on the application:

♦  scanned copy of the applicant's ID or passport
♦  M.A. degree transcript of records and diploma
♦  Curriculum Vitae
♦  Master's thesis abstract
♦  Motivation letter
♦  Research Proposal 
♦  Certificate attesting the knowledge of English language at B1 level

The application is subject to € 30 non-refundable fee.

Scholarships

A – AI for internal technical office process management (Project Management, Generation of user manuals documents or classification of material master data) (Adige S.p.A.) >> details
B – Structural optimization of satellite-sensor interfaces for geodesic detection systems (Project "SPACE IT UP! Contratto ASI n.2024-5-E.0 Spoke 6, CUP Master n.  I53D24000060005”, CUP di progetto n.  E63C24000530003) Università di Trento and CIRA Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali SCpA)  >> details
C – Design of a highly efficient sensor-embedded machine learning accelerator for imaging systems (FBK- Sony Europe Limited – Italian Branch) >> details
D – Towards disruptive IR imaging with antenna-coupled field-effect transistor detectors (FBK- Sony Europe Limited – Italian Branch) >> details
E – Architectures and Models for Efficient Sign Language Video Generation (VEASYT srl) - Additional (published on 29/07/2025) details

All above scholarships are subject to acceptance of the full transfer of the ownership of the intellectual property of the research results.

Positions without scholarships, reserved to employees of partner companies (PhD Executive)

AE - Embedded Computing: household appliances application case (reserved to employees at Electrolux Italian SpA) >> details
BE - AI system security (reserved to employees at Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH) >> details
CE - System security for next-generation computing (reserved to employees at Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH) >> details
DE - Driving Innovation in Edge Computing and IoT with MLOps (reserved to employees at Fondazione Bruno Kessler) >> details
EE - Advanced model tool (AI-based, ROM, ML, etc) for improving performance on electrolysis cell and stack (reserved to employees at Fondazione Bruno Kessler) >> details
FE - Metal hydride application: novel tank design and thermochemical compression (reserved to employees at Fondazione Bruno Kessler) >> details
GE - Towards Trustworthy Federation of AI Agents leveraging HW-based Trusted Computing Abstractions (reserved to employees at Ubitech)  >> details

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