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Coordinator: Professor Giovanni Battista Dagnino
We aim to establish the PhD in Economics and Management of the University of Catania among the best European Doctoral Programs in the relevant area.
According to the European declaration of “The Bologna Process 2020”, the PhD vision will be accomplished in two ways:
Mission
The PhD Program in Economics and Management of the University of Catania aims at attracting participants who truly show towering motivation and high potential to pursue a career in the international academic community or wish to have a professional future in a variety of financial institutions, government agencies, banks and insurances, and knowledge-intensive firms.
The PhD mission is structured along the four key goals that follow:
Aims of PhD program
In line with the European declaration of “The Bologna Process 2020”, the PhD program in Economics and Management of the University of Catania is designed to meet four basic priorities.
(I) Quality in Research
The first priority is achieving the highest quality in research. This means to that the PhD students and candidates will be expected to able to develop scientific contributions that are both conceptually relevant and empirically sound, as well as to clearly illustrate the extant links between theory and findings.
(II) International span
The second priority is internationalization. Actually, the European declaration of The Bologna Process 2020 calls upon “European higher education institutions to further internationalize their activities and to engage in global collaboration for sustainable development”. In addition, it has been widely demonstrated that establishing international collaborations consistently increases the quality and breadth of research in the fields of the PhD (economics, accounting and management). In this perspective, the PhD students should be encouraged to take an active part in major academic networks and conferences in their field of study and to conduct thigh level academic research at the international level.
(III) Student Mobility
According to European declaration of the Bologna Process 2020, “mobility is important for personal development and employability, it fosters respect for diversity and a capacity to deal with other cultures”. In this perspective, PhD program should offer a network of relation with PhD students and distinguished academics of other institutions and push its students to spend a period, of one year (about 25%) of the PhD program, in other countries. The maximum period a PhD student is allowed to spend abroad is two years.
(IV) Concentration
The Bologna declaration states that PhD programs in Europe are expected offer high quality disciplinary contents and, at the same time, increasingly be complemented by inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral program. In this perspective, the fourth priority is to supply a mix of seminars on broad as well as specific topics in economics, accounting and management fields and, moreover, to promote concentration in research efforts of PhD students in order to achieve top-notch results.
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