FAQ
Students’ guide: the purpose of this short guide is to provide PhD students with useful information for accessing online services.
Access the home page of the PhD website and authenticate yourself with your PhD student credentials (click on login at the top right). From the home page, select "My profile" in the menu on the left and then the "Edit profile" link.
Instructions
Research doctors can update their profile on the website by logging in with their SCU student credentials @edu.unito.it. These credentials are without a deadline.
In case of difficult access with the above-mentioned credentials, please refer to the webpage "Servizi".
Enrollment and qualification certificates and parchments are issued by the central Doctoral Office:
Via Bogino, 9 - 10123 Turin -
Tel +39 011/670.4385-4373-4371 Fax 011-670.4380
e-mail: dottorati@unito.it
The training course of the PhD course in Law, the Individual and the Market involves the acquisition of 180 CFU (1 CFU: 2 hours of lecture or seminar) over the three-year period and is divided into:
1st year:
- 30 CFU of research activities
- 25 CFU of disciplinary and interdisciplinary training activities
- 5 CFU of research-complementary training activities
2nd year (*):
- 45 CFU of research activities
- 15 CFU of disciplinary and interdisciplinary training activities
(*) Admission to the 3rd year is subject to having at least one publication relevant to one's research project, which can be classified as an article in a scientific journal or a contribution in an edited volume, which has been published no more than 18 months before, in reviews with a ISSN code or in volumes with an ISBN code that submit contributions to anonymous refereeing.
2nd year doctoral students will have to organize a seminar in which they will act as discussant for the guest whom they invite to speak on topics related to their research project ("2nd year seminars").
3rd year:
- 55 CFU of research activities for writing the thesis
- 5 CFU of disciplinary and interdisciplinary training activities
Instructions for outgoing co-tutelle (i.e., for PhD students firstly matriculated at the University of Turin) and for incoming co-tutelle (for PhD students matriculated abroad)
Outgoing co-tutelle are required to comply with the rules established for the first year. The training programme for the following two years will be defined for each individual research project by the co-tutors appointed by the respective teaching boards within the framework of the two Universities’ co-tutelle agreement.
For incoming co-tutelle - i.e. those started for PhD students coming from abroad - the training programme is established by the co-tutors appointed by the respective teaching boards within the framework of the two Universities’ co-tutelle agreement.
All PhD students are required to enter their research products in the Iris-AperTO Catalogue
ACCESS TO THE PROCEDURE:
Refer to the Administrative Guidelines
For further information: missioni.cle@unito.it
The amount of the PhD scholarship increases, if provided for by a convention/agreement, for any training period abroad in relation to the number of completed days.
The request for/authorization of the increase in the scholarship occurs exclusively through the use of the online procedure, which you access with your SCU credentials (which are assigned after enrollment in the PhD course). The guide to using the procedure is available on the login page.
You can use the IT procedure for the following operations:
- request for authorization to complete the training period abroad (to be completed at least 48 hours before departure);
- continuity declaration to be used every 2 months, if the study period abroad is continuous and longer than 60 days, in order to divide the payment into several bimonthly installments (and not in a single solution at the end of the stay);
- return declaration (essential to obtain the increase in the scholarship and to be completed strictly within 2 weeks of returning to Italy);
- monitoring the "status" of your study stay abroad periods.
For the payment of the increase in the scholarship, each PhD coordinator authorizes/validates, via the IT procedure, the periods of stay abroad previously entered online by their PhD students.
The increase in the PhD scholarship is a fixed daily amount (equivalent to 50% of the daily amount of the scholarship) paid for the number of days spent abroad.
Payment of the continuity/return declarations is made in the month following their submission.
For further information in this regard, contact the central Doctorate Office at dottorati@unito.it.
Guidelines for the use of the 10% budget for research activities in Italy and abroad
Refer to the Administrative Guidelines
Enrollment in the 2nd year:
At the end of the 1st year of the PhD course, a PhD student must submit two reports: one report on a lecture, seminar or conference which the PhD student attended, the other report on the research activity which was carried out during the year, as well as a draft bibliography and a draft table of contents of the thesis. Upon the favorable opinion of the Phd student’s Tutor, the Teaching Board decides on admission to the 2nd year. Then, the PhD student must enroll in the following year of the PhD course according to the modalities and the deadlines which are communicated by the Doctoral Office (dottorati@unito.it).
Registration is considered completed after the payment of taxes and contributions for accessing and attending the PhD courses (for exempted categories, please refer to the PhD Call).
Registration for the 3rd year:
At the end of the 2nd year of the PhD course, a PhD student must present: one report on a lecture, seminar or conference which the PhD student attended, the other report on the research activity which was carried out during the year, as well as the bibliography and the table of contents of the thesis . The PhD student is summoned before the Teaching Board to present the progress of his/her research project. Moreover, admission to the 3rd year is subject to having at least one publication relevant to one's research project and classified as an article in a scientific journal or a contribution in an edited volume; the issue shall be published in the previous 18 months, in reviews with a ISSN code or in volumes with an ISBN code that submit contributions to anonymous refereeing.
Upon the favorable opinion of the Phd student’s Tutor, the Teaching Board decides on admission to the 3rd year. Then, the PhD student must enroll in the following year of the PhD course according to the modalities and the deadlines which are communicated by the Doctoral Office (dottorati@unito.it).
Registration is considered completed after the payment of taxes and contributions for accessing and attending the PhD courses (for exempted categories, please refer to the PhD Call).
Regulation of the University of Turin for the establishment and functioning of the PhD School and the PhD courses.
Art. 27 - Suspension of the activity
- Suspension of the PhD activity is foreseen in cases of maternity - as is regulated in the specific Regulation - and military or civil service; in the case of serious and documented illness, if the suspension lasts more than 30 days, the PhD scholarship cannot be paid for the period concerned.
- Suspension of the PhD course is foreseen, at the request of the [PhD student] and subject to authorization from the Teaching Board, for the duration of the Active Training Internship and for the special qualifying courses.
- For serious and in any case justified reasons, at the request of the [PhD student] and subject to authorization from the Teaching Board of the PhD course, the suspension of the PhD student's career may be permitted, with a Teaching Board of the PhD course’s resolution, up to a maximum of 1 year renewable by the Teaching Board of the PhD course upon motivated request of the [PhD student];
- If, at the end of the suspension, the PhD course is terminated or transformed, the PhD student will be relocated, on the basis of a PhD Course Teaching Board’s resolution, to a PhD course in similar subjects.
The Teaching Board’s positive evaluation on the PhD-course last-year’s activity is a condition for admission to the final exam.
After positive evaluation of the PhD course last-year’s activity, the Teaching Board appoints, for each PhD student, after consulting the Tutor, at least two evaluators (plus at least one substitute evaluator), and establishes the deadline for the submission of the thesis. The evaluators must be highly qualified professors, who are external to the University of Turin, to the affiliated universities that contribute to the award of the PhD course title and to the Teaching Board. Evaluators can take on this function for multiple candidates.
The thesis, accompanied by a summary in Italian or English, is written in Italian or English or in another language with the prior authorization by the Teaching Board.
The thesis, to which a report by the PhD student on the activities carried out during the PhD course and on any publications must be attached, is submitted by the PhD student to the evaluators within the deadline established by the Teaching Board. PhD students from the XXXIII cycle will be granted a maximum deadline of six months to send the thesis, with the supervisor in copy, to dottorati.cle@unito.it, who will in turn forward it to the evaluators.
The evaluators express a written analytical opinion on the thesis (within one month of receiving the thesis) and propose its admission to public discussion or postponement for a period not exceeding six months if they deem significant additions or corrections necessary.
The PhD student is required to make the requested additions and/or corrections.
After this period, the thesis is in any case admitted to public discussion, accompanied by a new written opinion by the same evaluators in light of any corrections or additions which have been made by the PhD student.
The Coordinator carries out liaison functions between the PhD student and the evaluators in the case of referral by one evaluator only.
The public discussion takes place before a Judging Commission consisting of at least three experts in the matter (with alternates), the majority of whom are outside the Teaching Board. The Judging Commission is appointed by the Teaching Board within 30 days of admission to the public discussion. It is possible to appoint a single Commission for multiple candidates. The evaluators can be members of the Judging Commission.
The Teaching Board may authorize participation to public discussion via electronic connection.
The Commission is required to complete its work within 90 days of the Rectoral decree of appointment.
Once this deadline has elapsed, the Judging Commission that has not completed its work expires and the Rector appoints a new Judging Commission, with the exclusion of the lapsed members.
The final exam consists of a public discussion of the thesis. At the end of the discussion, the thesis, with a reasoned collegial judgment, is approved or rejected. The Judging Commission, unanimously, has the right to award honors in case of results of particular scientific importance.
The qualification is issued by the Rector who, upon request of the PhD candidate, certifies its achievement.
After obtaining the qualification, the Doctor of research will have to deposit the thesis in the Institution’s open access archive which will guarantee its storage and public consultation. The University will deposit the thesis pursuant to the law, at the National Libraries in Florence, Rome and Turin and in the ministerial database.
In the case of co-tutelle, the candidate will defend the thesis according to the rules of the University where the discussion takes place.