Application deadline: 11/07/2024 (by noon, local time)
Admission interviews: 24/07/2024 (in presence at the Faculty of Education in Brixen-Bressanone, room A2.01 from 9:00 a.m. or via MS Teams: Candidates who make a motivated request by 11/07/2024 can participate in the admission interview online via MS Teams.)
Publication of ranking lists: by 05/08/2024

Confirmation of the PhD position - 1st Call

Applicants with scholarship: by 20/08/2024 by noon local time;
Applicants without scholarship: starting from 21/08/2024 until 30/08/2024 by noon local time.
Enrolment: Starting from 21/08/2024 until 31/10/2024

Total Positions: 7

1st Call

Positions with university scholarships: 5
Positions with other types of scholarship: 1
Position ESF+: 1

Research areas for which research proposals can be submitted:

• Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon;
• sociolinguistics;
• dialogue analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis;
• language acquisition;
• language teaching;
• Germanic and Romance Philology and Historical linguistics;
• language contact, Germanic and Romance dialectology, minority languages and multilingualism;
• language policies and language planning

At the following link you can find the detailed project description of the position with ARLEF scholarship, project title“Comparative analysis of the policies for the protection of the Romansh, the Brixino-Tyrolean Ladin and the Friulian Ladin”. 

At the following link you can find the detailed description of the position reserved for the International Doctoral Track in cooperation with the University of Marburg.

At the following link you can find the detailed project descriptions of the position with ESF+ scholarship, project title “Language technologies for low-resource languages”.

All citizen may apply to be admitted to a PhD programme:

• Applicants holding a postgraduate degree as per Italian Ministerial Decree no. 509/1999, a postgraduate degree as per Italian Ministerial Decree no. 270/2004, a degree of the former Italian university system, or an equivalent degree obtained abroad;
• Applicants achieving one of the above mentioned titles within the enrolment deadline. In this case applicants will be admitted conditionally to the selection procedure and they must produce the degree certificate within the enrolment’s deadline. If not, their application is considered null and void.

To apply for the position financed by European Social Fund Plus ESF+: 

• Participants must also be under the age of 35 years, to be understood as up to the day before the participant's thirty-fifth birthday. The requirements must be fulfilled at the time of the deadline of the relevant call for applications (11/07/2024).

Applications to the selection procedure can be submitted from the date of the announcement of the public competition.

Each application is subject to a payment for administrative expenses (30 €). This registration fee cannot be reimbursed under any circumstances.
In order to apply, you need to follow these steps:

1. Create an account at Application Portal and upload in electronic format a passport-size colour photo and a valid ID (passport or identity card, front/back);
2. In the application portal, select the PhD programme and pay the registration fee of 30 € (see instructions in the portal);
3. Fill in the online form in the same portal and upload the additional required documents (see the specific attachments to the call for each PhD programme).

Completing the application online is the only way to submit the application. Applications will not be considered if:

• incomplete or without compulsory entry qualifications/requirements;
• sent by e-mail.

It is necessary to upload the required documentation for each PhD programme chosen in the portal. A traffic light system indicates complete/incomplete documentation (missing documents will be marked in red).

Only documents uploaded by the deadline will be evaluated. It is advisable to apply online well in advance and to check the portal regularly to take note of any notes concerning missing and/or incorrect documents.

After the deadline, it will no longer be possible to complete/correct incomplete applications.
The University is not liable if the portal is overcharged, due to the net or to the software itself.

To apply to the PhD programme, applicants must include the documentation listed below. Incomplete applications will be excluded from the competition.

• if graduated in Italy:    
  diploma supplement or self-declaration (following the Italian D.P.R. no. 445/2000) of the degree awarded with the exams passed (if graduated) or just with the exams passed (if not graduated yet);
• if graduated abroad:     
  diploma supplement or final degree certificate with exams passed (if graduated) or transcript of records (if not graduated yet) in Italian, German or English.
  For qualifications obtained abroad, also: scale of grades awarded by the home university (with a minimum final grade to obtain the qualification and a maximum final grade achievable).

The above must contain the following information: final grade, exams passed with grade and date of passing, credit points, scientific fields (the latter only for Italian titles), university where the degree was or will be awarded and date of graduation. unibz reserves the right to request a description of the contents of the single courses and/or teaching hours where necessary.

• Curriculum vitae (CV) in English or in Italian or in German (possibly following the EU format that can be downloaded here). The CV must be updated with all data and information of the current year 2024.
• Research proposal: research proposal written in English, German or Italian, with a description of the PhD project that the candidate wants to pursue. The proposal must not exceed the length of 9,000 characters (including spaces, excluding the bibliography), PDF file.

The project preferences indicated by the candidate are not binding for the purposes of the assignment of the position, except for the position with ESF+ scholarship. It will be the competence of the Selection Commission to assign to the successful candidate the project considered most suitable.

The selection procedure consists of an assessment of the qualifications (max. 40 points) and a selection interview (max. 60 points). Candidates who achieve a minimum of 25/40 points in the assessment of qualifications will be admitted to the oral interview.
The following documents, which candidates must upload to the application portal, will be assessed:

• Master thesis: max. 10 points;
• Description of the intended research project in English, German or Italian. The project description must not exceed a length of 9000 characters (including spaces; excluding bibliography): max. 25 points;
• Other documents: Curriculum vitae (CV): max. 5 points.

Selection interview
The selection interview will be held in English and, at the applicant's discretion, in German or Italian.
During the interview, the submitted research project will be discussed and the applicant's English and German or Italian language skills will be assessed.
The selection interview is considered passed if a minimum of 40/60 points is achieved.

Applicants who submit a reasoned request by 11/07/2024 could conduct the selection interview online via MS Teams.

Evaluation committee
Alber, Birgit (unibz), Chair
Cantarini, Sibilla (UniVR)
Spreafico, Lorenzo (unibz)
Ersatzmitglieder: Abel, Andrea (unibz), Irsara, Martina (unibz), Rabanus, Stefan (UniVR)
Expertin: borsa ARLEF: Videsott, Ruth (unibz).

Fees amount to € 189

In order to confirm your study place, you need to log on to the application portal and pay the tuition fees (€ 189) which includes the provincial tax for the right to study of € 173 and a revenue stamp of € 16. by one of the methods indicated on the portal by the deadline indicated above.

If you do not respect this deadline, you will automatically lose your study place. If, by paying the instalment you have confirmed the study place, there will be no refund of the tuition fees unless you are a non-EU applicant resident abroad and you do not receive the necessary documents from the Italian authorities in your country.