Science, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Change 36 months PHD Programme By Politecnico di Milano |TopUniversities

Programme overview

Main Subject

Sustainable Development

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Programme
The PhD programme in Science, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Change (STER-CHANGE) prepares the future generation of scientific experts for addressing the challenge of global change and steering society toward a sustainable and inclusive transition, including accelerating the penetration of green technologies, fostering industry decarbonization, and designing sustainable policies from cross-sectoral perspectives. The program offers a multicultural and trans-disciplinary research environment with faculty from all the departments. Students will acquire research capacity and skills and in-depth knowledge about the complexity of Earth's natural and artificial systems; they will learn advanced metodologies to understand and model physical, industrial, societal, and digital processes impacting our planet ecosystem; and will develop projections of technological, ecological, and social trends to envision new sustainable solutions and systems, assessing their global environmental and societal impacts as well as related philosophical and ethical issues.
Mission and Goals
The program aims to train the next generation of scientific experts to design feasible and effective pathways to ensure the planet's prosperity and preservation through state-of-art scientific methods. At the end of the program, PD candidates are expected to possess the competencies and capacities required to support and inform the process of policy and strategy design for innovation-driven responses toward sustainable development.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Sustainable Development

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Programme
The PhD programme in Science, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Change (STER-CHANGE) prepares the future generation of scientific experts for addressing the challenge of global change and steering society toward a sustainable and inclusive transition, including accelerating the penetration of green technologies, fostering industry decarbonization, and designing sustainable policies from cross-sectoral perspectives. The program offers a multicultural and trans-disciplinary research environment with faculty from all the departments. Students will acquire research capacity and skills and in-depth knowledge about the complexity of Earth's natural and artificial systems; they will learn advanced metodologies to understand and model physical, industrial, societal, and digital processes impacting our planet ecosystem; and will develop projections of technological, ecological, and social trends to envision new sustainable solutions and systems, assessing their global environmental and societal impacts as well as related philosophical and ethical issues.
Mission and Goals
The program aims to train the next generation of scientific experts to design feasible and effective pathways to ensure the planet's prosperity and preservation through state-of-art scientific methods. At the end of the program, PD candidates are expected to possess the competencies and capacities required to support and inform the process of policy and strategy design for innovation-driven responses toward sustainable development.

Admission Requirements

6+
3+
78+

If you have a foreign university degree, you need to bring to the offices of the Secretariat (you'll be contacted by the offices): 

  • A) Declaration of equivalence issued by the diplomatic representation of the Country to which the national education system of the awarded qualification refers (Contact the Italian embassy in your Country for the ‘Dichiarazione di valore’)
  • or
    B) certificate issued by ENIC-NARIC centers (certificate of verification)
    for example, CIMEA statement of comparability + statement of verification
    http://www.cimea.it/en/servizi/attestati-di-comparabilita-e-certificazione-dei-titoli/attestati-di-comparabilita-e-di-verifica-dei-titoli-diplome.aspx
  • or
    C) Diploma Supplement in English 
    (Contact your University to find out if they can issue it)
    https://ec.europa.eu/education/diploma-supplement_en

3 Years
Sep

  • Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
  • Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance

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