IMT Distinctive Features
IMT is an Institute for Advanced Studies that aims to push the frontiers of knowledge and to contribute to the formation of international professional elites for business and institutions. PhD Programs are taught exclusively in English.

Research and PhD Programs focus on institutional and technological change, the role of organizations and markets in economic systems, the analysis of complex systems in social sciences, computer science and engineering.

IMT attracts bright students, young researchers and professors through competitive, transparent procedures at an international level.

The campus system and residential services provided by the Lucca Foundation for Higher Education and Research (FLAFR) create a vibrant, close-knit intellectual community.

Program description
The PhD Program aims to make students familiar with analytical tools and methodologies of investigation elaborated within different contemporary traditions in social sciences, thereby providing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to both evaluate comparatively the performance of institutional systems, and elaborate proposals for structural reforms. The courses will especially focus on the historical, political, institutional and economic dynamics that have been characterising the development of European and ex Soviet countries after the Second Word War. They will then consider among other topics: the institutional and decisional dynamics of European countries and the European Union including the trends towards multilevel governance both at the European and at the domestic level (federalisation, independent regulatory authorities, etc.); transatlantic relations EU-US; relations between politics, social processes and political economy decisions; paths of economic and political development; the institutional workings of international organisations; the characters of some geographical areas of special relevance.

15 positions and scholarships:

• 15 students: no tuition fees + free access to IMT Canteen
• 8 students: full grants (annual grant amounts +/- 13.638,00 Euros gross) €
• Up to 3 INPDAP additional grants
• 8 students: free accommodation
• 7 students (only for students without scholarship): Research Money

PhD Courses are held in English.

CLASSES START IN MARCH 2009

Applicants must fill out the online application form and attach the required documents as described on the website.

DEADLINE: December 5th, 2008

Undergraduate students can apply if they obtain their degree before December 24, 2008.

Further information can be found on the school’s website www.imtlucca.it or can be provided by the PhD Office: Phone: +39 0583 4339561; e-mail: phdapplications[ at ]imtlucca.it