<p>The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (SNS) in Italy is offering 9 <a href="https://www.for9a.com/en/opportunity/category/Scholarships/PhD" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ph.D. scholarships</a> within the course &ldquo;Data Science&rdquo; for the academic year 2019-2020, jointly with the University of Pisa and the Sant&rsquo;Anna School of Advanced Studies. The course has a duration of 3 years and will start on 1 November 2019, with English being the language of instruction. The scholarship is aimed at assessing, through evaluation of qualifications and of a research project and with an oral examination, the candidate&rsquo;s preparation, talent, motivations and aptitude for scientific research. The Ph.D. course involves lectures, seminars and research activities: the teaching programs, geared to the individual student, are intended to broaden the students&rsquo; cultural base and to prepare them for research activity with the aim of achieving a particularly high specialization in the scientific field. Fields of the research include:</p><ol><li>Data science for society and policy</li><li>Data science for economics and finance</li><li>Data science for culture and the humanities</li><li>Data science for industry and manufacturing</li><li>Data science for biology and health</li><li>Data science for the hard and environmental sciences</li><li>Data science ethics and legal aspects</li><li>Data science techniques and methods</li></ol><h3><strong>Eligibility criteria:</strong></h3><ol><li>Admission to the oral examination is based on evaluation of qualifications and of a research project written in Italian or English (maximum limit about 20,000 characters, including spaces).</li><li>The application can be submitted by students with any citizenship and by those who have a master&#39;s degree or an equivalent non-Italian qualification.&nbsp;</li><li>Applicants who plan to obtain the qualification required for admission by October 31, 2019 can also apply.</li><li>Applicants must be born after 31 October 1989.</li><li>Applicants must have no convictions that have been res judicata for a term of imprisonment of more than three years.</li><li>Applicants must not have been subject to &quot;expulsion&quot;.</li><li>Applicants must not be in possession of a Ph.D. qualification issued by an Italian university, and in any case not to have benefited from a scholarship to attend a PhD program in Italy;</li><li>Admission tests may be taken in Italian or English.</li></ol><h3><strong>Funding and benefits:</strong></h3><ol><li>The scholarship is paid in twelve deferred monthly instalments of the same amount. For the academic year 2019-2020 the scholarship amounts to &euro; 17,000.00 inclusive of a lodging allowance.</li><li>Students are also entitled to free board at the SNS facilities or affiliated facilities, for the entire duration of the course with the exclusion of academic vacation periods.</li><li>The successful applicant can request to use the lodging allowance, within the limits of availability of the facilities, in the residences of the SNS.&nbsp;</li><li>In addition to the scholarship, the SNS covers the expenses incurred by course students for formally authorized study and research activities, in Italy and abroad.</li><li>Non-European Union successful applicants are reimbursed for travel expenses incurred for the start of the course, up to a maximum limit of &euro;1,000 and upon submission of original and valid travel documents, including boarding passes. They can also submit a motivated request for early payment of the first instalment of the scholarship.&nbsp;</li><li>Non-European Union students can request, within one year from the conclusion of the course, the reimbursement of expenses incurred for returning to their country of origin, up to a maximum limit of &euro;1,000 and upon submission of original and valid travel documents, including boarding passes.</li></ol><p><strong>Take a look at more&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.for9a.com/en/country" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Opportunities Abroad</strong></a></p><p dir="ltr"><strong>See more available<a href="https://www.for9a.com/en/opportunity/category/Residencies-and-Exchange-Programs">&nbsp;exchange programs</a> on For9a</strong></p>

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Funded PhD Scholarships in Data Science in Italy 2019-2020