Application procedure

If you are interested in participating you are required to draft an abstract in Italian or English corresponding to a standard A4 page of 2500 characters (including spaces). The content of the abstract should be structured as follow:

• Heading: name and surname of the PhD candidate, name of the PhD programme, title of the PhD thesis,  name and surname of the supervisor;
• Abstract: the text should emphasise the potential interdisciplinary spin-offs of the candidate's PhD project and the impact of the research on civil society at all levels and in all possible forms;
• Keywords: they should represent the interdisciplinary content of the doctoral project.

Send your abstract directly to direttrice.isa@unibo.it - and segreteria.isa@unibo.it in copy - by the deadline indicated in the Call for proposals.

1. The ISA Scientific Board will identify all the projects deserving attention and meeting the criteria set out in the Call for proposals and will publish the list of selected projects on the ISA website;

2. Should your project be selected, you will be invited to present it at Palazzo Marchesini to the ISA Scientific Board and to the Visiting Fellows involved in ISA activities.

The prize will be transferred to the Department where the PhD programme is based as a fund for each PhD student who is awarded the ISA Doctoral Prize. 

Within one year of being awarded the prize, each winner shall send to the ISA Administrative Office a brief report, digitally signed by the relevant PhD Programme Director, certifying that the sum has been used for research activities relating to the project selected by the Scientific Council (e.g. co-financing publications, support for participation in conferences, financing other scientific products connected or functional to the PhD student's research). The PhD student undertakes to cite the ISA contribution, and specifically the ISA DP, in the acknowledgements featuring in any publication, conference abstract or other scientific product created as a result of the ISA DP and in the final version of the PhD thesis.