Announcement of competition for admission to Doctoral Schools and Doctoral courses a.y. 2008/09 - 24th series
Preliminary information
The admission to the Ph.D Schools at the University of Padua is obtained by passing a formal examination.
A single professor has no possibility to accept a Ph.D student. Foreign students with a foreign Master degree have two different options to be enrolled as Ph.D students.
First. The University of Padua open in the last few years a competition reserved to foreign students. Informations can be found on the official pages of the University of Padua at Ateneo web page. The number of fellowships is limited (for the year 2009 they are 15). The winners of this competition are admitted to the Ph.D School they
choose. Besides the regular fellowship they have also a full board benefit for three years.
Second. Foreign students could also participate to the regular call together with all other students. For the Ph.D School in Information Engineering the preliminary information is reported below. The call for the 24th series will appear soon on the official pages of the University of Padua at Ateneo web page.
Admission procedure
To be admitted to the PhD School in Information Engineering each candidate has to pass an exam. For the 24th series the admission exam is composed by the evaluation of the curriculum of the candidates and the evaluation of the GRE General Part Test.
The management committee of the PhD School in Information Engineering strongly recommend the admission committee to use the following criterion and scores for the list of admitted students to the school.
Test GRE General Part (*): 11,50 points:
- Quantitative Reasoning: max points 9,00
- Verbal Reasoning: max points 2,50
Academic and Scientific awards: 88,50 points:
- Average scores of the exams to get the Master Degree: max points 57,00
- Average scores of the exams to get the Bachelor Degree: max points 9,00
- Letter of recommendation written by using the attached form (get the form ).
It must be either sent by e-mail together with a scanned copy of a passport of the writer to phdschool.head@ dei.unipd. it or given to the student in a sealed envelope in order to it will be included in the package to present for the admission: max points 4,50
- Scientific Publications on journal/Conferences /books (even for accepted publication with a letter of acceptance attached): max points 4,00
- Curriculum of the candidate: max points 4,0
- Master degree thesis (written in English): max points 3,00
- Research program for the three years of the Ph.D.: max points 7,00
In case the candidate has followed a University unique course of study of duration of at least five years the scores in place of Master and Bachelor Degrees, are as follows:
- Average scores of the exams to get the Degree: max points 66,00
All other aspects are as before.
We recall that a minimum of 70 points are required to be inserted in the admission list.
(*)In order to the GRE test score will arrive directly to the School the candidate has to insert the School code, 7076
In case you are not able to get the official GRE score on time please fill in the form 'Self certification' inserting the score of the Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning.
If the candidate intend to participate to both the two "Indirizzo" he/she has to present two different packages one for each "Indirizzo" complete of all the documents.
Candidates must prepare the package(s) and be ready for sending it by courier to the address:
Mrs Alessandra Calore
Dipartimento di INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE
Via Gradenigo 6b, 35131 Padova (PD), Italy
Tel. +39 0498277618
Fax +39 0498277919
e-mail: calore@dei.unipd. it
Please take care that the package must be received within the deadline.
The package also must contain a form that should be filled online and it will be available after the opening of the call. The call will remain open for 30 days (the exact date will be published as soon as known). The expected opening date for the call is end of August / September 2008.
All students interested to participate to the call are invited to send an e-mail to the director of the PhD School, prof. Matteo Bertocco, which will take care to inform all of you as soon as the call open in order to you be able to fill the online form. The e-mail address is: phdschool.head@ dei.unipd. it
In any case, please prepare all other staff well in advance. Please contact the Italian Embassy/Consulate to get information for the translation of your University career with scores. We accept the original Univeristy career even in English without any translation in Italian. It is important to get from the University where you got the bachelor and master degrees a statement giving the average score of all the students that obtained the bachelor and the master degrees the same year of you, in order to compare the scores you get with the one of your competitors.
The certificate from the Italian Embassy/Consulate (dichiarazione di valore) regarding your University career is not mandatory now. Please send a copy of your University degree which must be received by the deadline to:
Servizio Formazione alla Ricerca
Via 8 Febbraio, n. 2
35122 Padova, Italy
The admission lists will be separated for each 'Indirizzo' and for each fellowships granted by external or research funds. Candidates in more than one list has the possibility to choose the one to be enrolled.
Fellowships and available positions per "Indirizzo"
Indirizzo: BIOINGEGNERIA (bioengineering)
Available positions:
A) Univ. Padova Fellowships: 3
B) Fellowships granted by LEGGE 170: 2
C) Fellowship granted by external Institutions( *): 1
D) Positions without financial support: 3
TOTAL: 9
Research Areas for the fellowships granted by legge 170: ICT and Electronic devices, New applications in biomedical industry
(*) Fellowship granted by external Institution: Fondazione Cariparo:
Production and characterization on bioprosthetic heart valves
Indirizzo: SCIENZA e TECNOLOGIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE (Information and
Communication Science and Technology, ICT)
Available positions:
A) Univ. Padova Fellowships: 12
B) Fellowships granted by LEGGE 170: 3
C) Fellowship granted by external Institutions( *): 1
D) Positions without financial support: 12
TOTAL: 28
Research Areas for the fellowships granted by legge 170: ICT and electronic devices
(*) Fellowship granted by external Institution: Fondazione Cariparo: Multimodal virtual reality systems for assisted rehabilitation
Remarks. The fellowships related to the "Legge 170" are given on the basis of the general list of merit. The student in any case has to accept the fellowship, and in this case he accepts also to do research in one of the research area indicated (Ambito). All the areas have to be covered.
Evaluation criteria for the fellowship granted by external
Institutions
100 for each proof
Students which apply for one or more of these fellowships must apply first to the fellowships within the Indirizzo where these fellowships are offered. Also, they must obtain in this evaluation the minimum score to be admitted in the admission list.
The final score for the list is obtained by the sum of the two proofs.
The evaluation is done by considering the following additional aspects:
- Letter of recommendation written by using the attached form (get the form). It must be either sent by e-mail together with a scanned copy of a passport of the writer to phdschool.head@ dei.unipd. it or given to the student in a sealed envelope in order to it will be included in the package to present for the admission: max points 30,00
- Research program for the three years of the Ph.D. different with respect to the one presented for the Indirizzo and with a theme coherent with the research topic of the fellowship. The evaluation criterion will privilege the coherence with the research topic: max points 70,00.
To be inserted in the admission list the student must obtain at least 70 points even in the additional evaluation.
GRE scores (GRE score - points earned)
• Quantitative:
800 – 9; 790 – 7; 780 – 6,25; 770 – 5,5; 760 – 4,7; 750 – 3,9; 740 – 3,1; 730 – 2,35; 720 – 1,55; 710 – 0,8; 700 – 0,4; all other scores 0 points
• Verbal:
> 660 – 2,5; 630-660 – 2,15; 590-620 – 1,8; 550-580 – 1,4; 510-540 – 1,05; 470-500 – 0,7; 440-460 – 0,35; <440 - 0)
The call for the competition is expected to be published the end of August / Beginning of September 2008.
Since the date of publication the candidate has 30 days to submit his data to the School.
Research Project
Guidelines for the preparation of the research project:
1. Project Title
2. State of the art (max two A4 pages)
3. Project objectives (max one A4 page)
4. Project description and activities (metodologies, expected results, etc., max four A4 pages)
5. References (max 40 reference)
Further informations can be found on the official pages of the University of Padua (in italian) at Ateneo web page.
Admission Procedure
http://www.dei. unipd.it/ wdyn/index. php?IDsezione= 4933
http://www.unipd. it/en/doctorates /index.htm
Deadline: 2 Oct. 2008
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