22 PhD Grants in Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

Deadline: 2 Oct. 2008

Announcement of competition for admission to Doctoral Schools and
Doctoral courses a.y. 2008/09 - 24th series

Preliminary information

The admission to the Ph.D Schools at the University of Padua is
obtained by passing a formal examination.

A single professor has no possibility to accept a Ph.D student.
Foreign students with a foreign Master degree have two different
options to be enrolled as Ph.D students.

First. The University of Padua open in the last few years a
competition reserved to foreign students. Informations can be found
on the official pages of the University of Padua at Ateneo web page.
The number of fellowships is limited (for the year 2009 they are 15).
The winners of this competition are admitted to the Ph.D School they
choose. Besides the regular fellowship they have also a full board
benefit for three years.

Second. Foreign students could also participate to the regular call
together with all other students. For the Ph.D School in Information
Engineering the preliminary information is reported below.
The call for the 24th series will appear soon on the official pages
of the University of Padua at Ateneo web page.

Admission procedure

To be admitted to the PhD School in Information Engineering each
candidate has to pass an exam. For the 24th series the admission exam
is composed by the evaluation of the curriculum of the candidates and
the evaluation of the GRE General Part Test.

The management committee of the PhD School in Information Engineering
strongly recommend the admission committee to use the following
criterion and scores for the list of admitted students to the school.

Test GRE General Part (*): 11,50 points:
- Quantitative Reasoning: max points 9,00
- Verbal Reasoning: max points 2,50

Academic and Scientific awards: 88,50 points:
- Average scores of the exams to get the Master Degree: max points
57,00
- Average scores of the exams to get the Bachelor Degree: max points
9,00
- Letter of recommendation written by using the attached form (get
the form ).
It must be either sent by e-mail together with a scanned copy of a
passport of the writer to phdschool.head@dei.unipd.it or given to the
student in a sealed envelope in order to it will be included in the
package to present for the admission: max points 4,50
- Scientific Publications on journal/Conferences/books (even for
accepted publication with a letter of acceptance attached): max
points 4,00
- Curriculum of the candidate: max points 4,0
- Master degree thesis (written in English): max points 3,00
- Research program for the three years of the Ph.D.: max points 7,00

In case the candidate has followed a University unique course of
study of duration of at least five years the scores in place of
Master and Bachelor Degrees, are as follows:
- Average scores of the exams to get the Degree: max points 66,00
All other aspects are as before.

We recall that a minimum of 70 points are required to be inserted in
the admission list.

(*)In order to the GRE test score will arrive directly to the School
the candidate has to insert the School code, 7076

In case you are not able to get the official GRE score on time please
fill in the form ‘Self certification’ inserting the score of the
Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning.

If the candidate intend to participate to both the two “Indirizzo”
he/she has to present two different packages one for each “Indirizzo”
complete of all the documents.

Candidates must prepare the package(s) and be ready for sending it by
courier to the address:
Mrs Alessandra Calore
Dipartimento di INGEGNERIA DELL’INFORMAZIONE
Via Gradenigo 6b, 35131 Padova (PD), Italy
Tel. +39 0498277618
Fax +39 0498277919
e-mail: calore@dei.unipd.it

Please take care that the package must be received within the
deadline.

The package also must contain a form that should be filled online and
it will be available after the opening of the call. The call will
remain open for 30 days (the exact date will be published as soon as
known). The expected opening date for the call is end of August /
September 2008.

All students interested to participate to the call are invited to
send an e-mail to the director of the PhD School, prof. Matteo
Bertocco, which will take care to inform all of you as soon as the
call open in order to you be able to fill the online form.
The e-mail address is: phdschool.head@dei.unipd.it

In any case, please prepare all other staff well in advance.
Please contact the Italian Embassy/Consulate to get information for
the translation of your University career with scores. We accept the
original Univeristy career even in English without any translation in
Italian. It is important to get from the University where you got the
bachelor and master degrees a statement giving the average score of
all the students that obtained the bachelor and the master degrees
the same year of you, in order to compare the scores you get with the
one of your competitors.

The certificate from the Italian Embassy/Consulate (dichiarazione di
valore) regarding your University career is not mandatory now.
Please send a copy of your University degree which must be received
by the deadline to:
Servizio Formazione alla Ricerca
Via 8 Febbraio, n. 2
35122 Padova, Italy

The admission lists will be separated for each ‘Indirizzo’ and for
each fellowships granted by external or research funds. Candidates in
more than one list has the possibility to choose the one to be
enrolled.

Fellowships and available positions per “Indirizzo”
Indirizzo: BIOINGEGNERIA (bioengineering)
Available positions:
A) Univ. Padova Fellowships: 3
B) Fellowships granted by LEGGE 170: 2
C) Fellowship granted by external Institutions(*): 1
D) Positions without financial support: 3
TOTAL: 9
Research Areas for the fellowships granted by legge 170: ICT and
Electronic devices, New applications in biomedical industry
(*) Fellowship granted by external Institution: Fondazione Cariparo:
Production and characterization on bioprosthetic heart valves

Indirizzo: SCIENZA e TECNOLOGIA DELL’INFORMAZIONE (Information and
Communication Science and Technology, ICT)
Available positions:
A) Univ. Padova Fellowships: 12
B) Fellowships granted by LEGGE 170: 3
C) Fellowship granted by external Institutions(*): 1
D) Positions without financial support: 12
TOTAL: 28
Research Areas for the fellowships granted by legge 170: ICT and
electronic devices
(*) Fellowship granted by external Institution: Fondazione Cariparo:
Multimodal virtual reality systems for assisted rehabilitation

Remarks. The fellowships related to the “Legge 170″ are given on the
basis of the general list of merit. The student in any case has to
accept the fellowship, and in this case he accepts also to do
research in one of the research area indicated (Ambito). All the
areas have to be covered.

Evaluation criteria for the fellowship granted by external
Institutions
100 for each proof
Students which apply for one or more of these fellowships must apply
first to the fellowships within the Indirizzo where these fellowships
are offered. Also, they must obtain in this evaluation the minimum
score to be admitted in the admission list.
The final score for the list is obtained by the sum of the two
proofs.
The evaluation is done by considering the following additional
aspects:
- Letter of recommendation written by using the attached form (get
the form). It must be either sent by e-mail together with a scanned
copy of a passport of the writer to phdschool.head@dei.unipd.it or
given to the student in a sealed envelope in order to it will be
included in the package to present for the admission: max points 30,00
- Research program for the three years of the Ph.D. different with
respect to the one presented for the Indirizzo and with a theme
coherent with the research topic of the fellowship. The evaluation
criterion will privilege the coherence with the research topic: max
points 70,00.

To be inserted in the admission list the student must obtain at least
70 points even in the additional evaluation.

GRE scores (GRE score - points earned)
• Quantitative:
800 – 9; 790 – 7; 780 – 6,25; 770 – 5,5; 760 – 4,7; 750 – 3,9; 740 –
3,1; 730 – 2,35; 720 – 1,55; 710 – 0,8; 700 – 0,4; all other scores 0
points
• Verbal:
> 660 – 2,5; 630-660 – 2,15; 590-620 – 1,8; 550-580 – 1,4; 510-540 –
1,05; 470-500 – 0,7; 440-460 – 0,35; <440>

The call for the competition is expected to be published the end of
August / Beginning of September 2008.

Since the date of publication the candidate has 30 days to submit his
data to the School.

Research Project
Guidelines for the preparation of the research project:
1. Project Title
2. State of the art (max two A4 pages)
3. Project objectives (max one A4 page)
4. Project description and activities (metodologies, expected
results, etc., max four A4 pages)
5. References (max 40 reference)

Further informations can be found on the official pages of the
University of Padua (in italian) at Ateneo web page.

Admission Procedure
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