Funding Ph.D. scholarships

Companies can cooperate with the Doctoral School to develop joint training and research activities on research topics of common interest that may become the subject of a specific project for a Ph.D. programme. By funding a scholarship, companies can:

• develop a long-term research project carried out by a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Politecnico faculty members and researchers;
• connect with Politecnico di Torino and get easy access to its laboratories and researchers;
• start working with an entry-level researcher, who could be an important human resource to invest in at the end of the Ph.D.programme in order to consolidate the benefits of the research project.

The Ph.D. candidate engaged in the research project is chosen after a public selection process and attends a doctoral research programme ending with a PhD degree.

The options for funding a Ph.D. position are one-year, two-year or three-year funding.

Company-funded scholarships are made available for competition in accordance with the regulations currently in force and in particular, with the provisions of the Doctoral Research Programme Regulations of Politecnico di Torino. For info about funding a scholarship, please contact the Ph.D. Programmes Hub at this email address dottorato@polito.it.

Companies interested in co-funding a PhD scholarship are required to sign a specific agreement with the proposing Department.

The minimum contribution for co-funding is € 30,500.00 and includes the cost of one year of the scholarship, the annual research budget, and a contribution for general expenses connected to the Ph.D. programme.

For partial funding arrangements, companies are required to contact the relevant Department directly in order to define and formalize the agreement.

Companies interested in funding one or more PhD scholarships are required to sign a specific agreement. Payment may be made either in a single upfront instalment or in three annual instalments.

A three-year scholarship amounts to €90.429,03 of which € 75.429,03 are intended to cover the scholarship itself plus a € 15.000,00 (minimum € 5.000 per year) for general expenses connected to the Ph.D. programme, including increases in the scholarship amount for periods of study and research abroad.

To enter into an agreement for funding a three-year scholarship, companies are required to contact the relevant Department directly in order to negotiate and formalize the agreement.

Where a prior agreement is already in place between the University and the funding entity (e.g. Partnership Agreement or Framework Agreement), companies are invited to contact the PhD Office at dottorato@polito.it.

The deadlines for the funding of a doctoral scholarship in the 42^nd cycle are the following:

• Agreement for the co-funding of Ph.D. scholarship;
• Agreement for the funding of a three-year scholarship;