{"id":2498,"date":"2021-11-22T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/training\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:10:33","slug":"training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/en\/training\/","title":{"rendered":"Study plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Ph.D. students have to attend at least 140 hours, and no more than 200 hours, of courses overall in 3 years (the earlier the better).<br \/>\nEach Ph.D. student is expected to:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>attend and take three or more exams of courses involving at least 80 hours of lectures in total;<\/li>\n<li>attend at least additional 60 hours of training activities without exam (or without taking the exam, if the course is with exam);<\/li>\n<li>attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/en\/summer-schools\/\">PhD school organized by PhD-AI.it<\/a> at the first year of study (the corresponding hours are included in the 60 hours without exams above)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The additional 60 hours of training activities may include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>cycles of seminars and doctoral schools with specific indication that they are aimed exclusively or mainly at doctoral students;<\/li>\n<li>(up to 20 hours) activities on soft skills, research management, European and international research systems, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, etc. See e.g., the PhD+ and CyB+ courses offered by the University of Pisa program <a href=\"https:\/\/contaminationlab.unipi.it\/en\/home-english\/\">Contamination Lab<\/a>, and\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/didattica\/corsi\/dottorati\/dottorandi\/didattica-trasversale\">cross-curricular educational activities<\/a>\u00a0 (open science, soft skills, English for research publication and presentation, etc.) offered at the University of Pisa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The courses with exams and training activities without exams should be selected among the ones made available by:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>our Ph.D. program (see below) and by the other 4 Ph.D. programs of <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai.it\/\">PhD-AI.it<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dottorato.di.unipi.it\/phd-programme\/teaching\/\">Ph.D. program in Computer Science<\/a> at the University of Pisa or by Ph.D. programs at the host University;<\/li>\n<li>by other Italian and International universities or research institutions (subject to approval).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list of curses of the previous Academic Years are available: <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/training-2025-2026\/\">2025-2026<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/training-2024-2025\/\">2024-2025<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/training\/2023-2024\/\">2023-2024<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/training\/2022-2023\/\">2022-2023<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/training\/2021-2022\/\">2021-2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First year Ph.D. students have to <strong>submit their study plan by 20th December<\/strong>. Second and third year Ph.D. students may update their study plan yearly by the same deadline. Study plans shall be agreed with the PhD student supervisors (or with the principal investigator of the Ph.D. scholarship, if supervisors have not been finalized yet).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>To submit\/update your study plan, please <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/StudyPlan_SURNAME.docx\">fill and sign this template<\/a>, and submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/e\/JzDNSMHzy9\">through this form<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You can attend the courses freely. It may be useful for the lecturers to know the number of interested students. Thus, it would be kind of you to send an email to the lectures of courses included in your study plan to let them know that you intend to attend the course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Certification of attendance\/exam.<\/strong> After passing the exam (or attending the course, if it is without exam), please ask the lecture to fill and sign the <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/Attendance_STUDENTSURNAME_COURSEACRONYM.docx\">attendance statement<\/a> (for summer schools, the certificate provided by the organizer is ok). Keep all statements in PDF with you. The statements will have to be attached at the yearly report you will submit for the yearly assessment in October next year.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title bgpantone bgtitle py-1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Ph.D. courses &#8211; Academic Year 2026-2027<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe list will be published early in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. students have to attend at least 140 hours, and no more than 200 hours, of courses overall in 3&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-dark btn-sm unipi-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it\/en\/training\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidthpage.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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