Official Call for applications to enroll in the International PhD Course
in Molecular Medicine
Chancellor’s Decree n. 4549
dated 14/07/2014
in Molecular Medicine
Chancellor’s Decree n. 4549
dated 14/07/2014
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Admission requirements |
The
application to participate in the selection for the International PhD
School in Molecular Medicine can be submitted, irrespective of age or
citizenship, by individuals holding a 5-year University Degree
(according to the old Italian regulation), a Master’s Degree (according
to the new Italian regulation) (hereinafter, the “Degree”) or an
equivalent foreign academic qualification, approved in advance by the
PhD Examination Committee, according to international agreements and/or
inter-university cooperation and mobility agreements.
Final year students can also apply, as long as they have already taken all examinations and graduate before October 31st, 2015,
under penalty of exclusion from selection. All candidates admitted with
reservation to the competition, will have to give evidence of their
graduation by November 15th, 2015, in case they should be assigned a position.
Pursuant to the regulations in force, students enrolled in the last year of the Medicine Specialisation Schools of the “Vita-Salute San Raffaele” University are entitled to submit their application. Should they be assigned a position, their PhD Course start date shall be consistent with the closure of the specialisation year. Italian, EU and non-EU citizens holding a foreign academic qualification which has not yet been declared equivalent to an Italian degree shall expressly ask to the Examination Committee to determine whether it is equivalent, only for the purposes of the admission to the PhD Course they intend to compete for, and include the following documents in their application: 1) Official record of the degree, complete with the list of the exams and the relevant marks, translated and legalised by an Italian diplomatic representation (Embassy or Consulate) of the country where the degree was awarded;
2)
A DV document (declaration of value - “dichiarazione di valore in
loco”) to be requested to the same diplomatic representation.
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Number of Positions available |
22 fellowships, of which:
10 free fellowships 12 project-based fellowships 5 positions without a fellowship Details about the position |
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Admission
Procedures
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The admission application shall be submitted on the form available on http://www.unisr.it/form/phd or on the PhD Course website (http://www.unisr.it/phd and www.unisr.it/phd/eng).
As set forth above, Candidates can opt for maximum 1 project-based fellowship (their 1st and only choice) and 2 curricula (in this case, the 1st and 2nd choice shall be defined).
The form, duly filled out, printed on unstamped paper and signed, is to be sent within September 3rd, 2015 the PhD Office by means of:
a) a PDF file attached to a certified e-mail message which can be sent to: procedureweb@pec.it
The e-mail must be exclusively sent from a certified e-mail address;
b) a PDF file attached to a regular e-mail which must be sent to the PhD Office e-mail address: segreteria.dottorati@unisr.it.
In
this case the original documentation must be delivered directly to the
PhD Office, according to one of the following methods described in items
c-e within the enrolment deadline, under penalty of exclusion.
c) directly delivered to:
PhD Office Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 58 - 20132 Milan, Italy tel. +39 02 91751554 or +39 02 91751552 fax + 39 02 91971453 d) by means of recorded delivery with return receipt to the address mentioned at c); e) by an authorised courier service with delivery receipt to the address mentioned at c). Please consider that the PhD Office will be closen from August 10 to August 21 including. The date on the stamp of the accepting Post office (or of the authorised courier) or that of the e-mail sending will be taken as the official date. Candidates submitting the admission application shall enclose to the signed copy of the electronic form:
Candidates who have not graduated yet must also include a self-certification (Attachment 2) to the documentation, stating that all the exams required by the curriculum have been passed and indicating the average. Applications submitted or sent after the time-limit above will not be eligible for the selection. |
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Form on line |
The Form on line (available on http://www.unisr.it/form/phd) represents
the application and must be filled out and sent by on-line procedure,
THEN the candidate has to print, sign and send, within the deadline of September 3rd, 2015, with the other documents requested (please see the Application Procedures).
In
their application, the Candidates shall provide a description of their
current research activities, their scientific interests, and any
information required in the online form.
Application form (online form) can be filled out either in Italian or in English.
Candidates can opt for maximum one project-based fellowship (their 1st and only choice) and two curricula (in this case, the 1st and 2nd choice shall be defined). These choices can be specified in the application form.
In case Candidates wish to apply for more than one Curriculum (maximum two) and/or one project-based fellowship, the electronic form shall be filled out only once, and the Curricula Candidates wish to apply to shall be selected according to the Candidates’ order of preference. The single dissertation relative to the research interests shall state the reasons for the Candidates’ multiple choice (two Curricula and/or one project-based fellowship) |
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Reference letters
Att. 1 |
The two reference letters (drafted pursuant to the form attached as Attachment 1) can be:
- Sent
in a sealed envelope (signed by the referee across the seal) by mail,
or handed over to the PhD Office of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele
University;
- Sent directly by the referees by email to one of the following e-mail addresses:
a) PhD Office (segreteria.dottorati@unisr.it), provided that the sender’s email address is that of the referee’s (preferably an institutional email address);
b) only from a certified e-mail address, to procedureweb@pec.it.within the deadline for submitting the admission applications (Semptember 3rd, 2015). All reference letters which have not been drafted according to the form (Attachment 1) or that have been submitted according to methods different from those above will be rejected.
Candidates shall not be allowed to read their reference letters.
Att.1 (file pdf) Att.1(file word) The referees (maximum two) will automatically receive from the system an email containing as an attachment the reference letter form (Attachment 1). Candidates are responsible for the data submitted; they are entitled to contact the referee(s) to personally request the letter and to check that it is submitted to the PhD Office within the deadline set, and as required by this call. The PhD Office will not solicit the submission of the letters. |
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Self- Certification Att. 2 |
The entitled persons (Italian and European Union citizens), in accordance with the D.P.R. n. 445/00 and subsequent modifications and integrations, if submitting copies of a certificate reporting the final degree grade or
in case they state other circumstances, as per Articles 46 and 47 of
Presidential Decree no. 445/00, will have to submit, duly filled and
signed, the self certification utilizing the Attachment 2.
Att. 2 (file pdf) Att. 2 (file word) The no European Union citizens must send the original certificates. |
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Selection procedures |
Admission
to one of the Curriculum of the PhD Corse is subject to the successful
results of a comparative assessment divided into two stages, as defined
below.
First assessment phase This phase, which does not require the Candidates to be present, is not public, is performed by the Committee and assesses:
a. The qualifications submitted, as described above and, more precisely:
• curriculum vitae indicated in the electronic form;
• Degree (5-year degree, as per old Italian regulation, Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree) and graduation mark (including BD mark); • Any publication on international journals or submission of abstracts to conferences;
b.
The written dissertation, to be inserted as well in the electronic
form, that shall be related to the Candidates’ research interests, and
that may be written in Italian or English;
c. The
reference letters, directly submitted to the Ufficio Dottorati of the
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan by authoritative
personalities of the scientific and/or academic world and listed by the
Candidates in their admission application; these authoritative
personalities shall have known the scientific qualities of the
Candidates by virtue of their institutional tasks (as Attachment 1). The reference letters shall be submitted within the deadline herein for the admission applications (Semptember 3rd, 2015).
Based
on the documents received and according to already-established
assessment criteria, the Examination Committee shall proceed to the
first stage, i.e. the comparative assessment of the Candidates’
qualifications.
Second assessment phase Only Candidates who have been awarded a score of at least 60% of the maximum attributable score for the assessment of qualifications (50 points) shall be admitted to the second phase.
This
assessment phase consists of an interview with the Examination
Committee aimed at assessing the scientific competences and the aptitude
of the Students.
Candidates admitted to the interview shall have with themselves one of the following identification documents: identity card, driving licence, passport or any other documents provided for by law, provided that they contain a photograph and a stamp or another equivalent marking and that they have been issued by a state authority. The assessment criteria used shall be those already established by the Committee. The interview will cover the knowledge of English, the general and specific qualifications of the Candidates, their reasons for starting the PhD Course and the subsequent professional research path.
At
the end of the second assessment phase, the Examination Committee shall
draft a final ranking based on a comparative assessment.
All candidates, at the end of the interviews, are required to communicate, via email to the PhD Office,
up to 2 preferences between the projects listed for each Curriculum
chosen during the admission phase . Furthermore, in the case of
preference:
- of the 2 research fellowships NEN4, the candidate has the faculty to indicate, after the interview, up to two projects of interest between those specific to these fellowiships; - of the 7 research fellowships TIGET, the candidate has the faculty to indicate after the interview, up to 3 projects of interest between those specific to these exchanges. |
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Papers for the Second Phase |
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First Phase Ranking |
Currently not available |
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Final Ranking |
Currently not available The procedure for the enrollment is described in the Official call and in the paragraph below. |
| Sliding Rankings |
Currently not available |
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Registration documents and fellowships |
There exists only one final ranking, which is updated after each stage.
Renouncing to a fellowship, at any stage, will result in the final withdrawing from the raking. Upon enrolment, all Candidates shall notify the laboratory at which they will conduct the PhD Course activities. The fellowships are assigned based on the final ranking and the preferences declared by the Candidates. We will proceed before with the assignment of a Project fellowships and of the positions with fellowships and, once completed the allocation of these positions, we will proceed with the assignment of positions without fellowships. During the first stage, the project-based fellowships are assigned, based on the ranking position and the Candidate’s preferences.
Once all the project-based fellowships have been assigned, the four free fellowships - to
be assigned to the four Curricula - will be assigned according to the
final ranking, updated based on the already assigned fellowship and any
previous stage renounce, and considering the preferences expressed by
the Candidates.
Following completion of
the positions with a project-based fellowship and of the fellowships
assigned to the four Curricula, the third stage will start, and the six remaining positions with a fellowship will
be assigned according to the ranking, updated based on the already
assigned fellowship and any previous stage renounce, and considering the
preferences expressed by the Candidates.
Candidates will be assigned to the indicated Curriculum, based on their order of preference. The fourth stage then starts with the assignment of the positions without a fellowship. Even in this case, Candidates will be preferably assigned to the Curriculum they chose, according to their preference. The details of the procedures for the enrollment are notified in art. 7 of the Official Call. The winning candidates will have to formalize their enrollment on the proper web page (http://intranet.unisr.it/esse3/Home.do), by gaining access with the credentials obtained during registration in 2 working days as from the date of publication of the final ranking for the candidates winners of a scholarship and in 5 working days for the candidates winners of a position without fellowship. For everyone, enrolment must be finalized by the second working day after the online enrollment.
In
the event that a candidate does not enter online within the due date,
or in case he/she does not finalize his/her enrolment within the 2
subsequent working days, he/she will be considered as a renouncer, thus
loses the right to enroll.
The details of the procedures for the assignment of positions are notified in art. 5.3. of the Official Call. |
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