Credits recognition
- Each course, if successfully completed, gives the student a total of 3 credits.
- Completed doctoral courses offered by other UniTrento PhD programmes or universities, Master’s degrees courses and online courses need to have their credits recognized.
- All credits will be awarded with the approval of the PhD student's tutor/advisor.
- The Executive Committee must approve any change in the way course credits are awarded.
- Courses must be completed after enrolment in the PhD Programme. Exceptions may be granted by the Executive Committee.
- Courses that have been part of the student's other degrees will not be taken into account.
Requirements for credits recognition
Master's degree courses
- no more than one Master’s degree course can be recognized;
- offered by UniTrento;
- final examination/test at the end of the course;
- the lecturer of the course must not be the advisor of the doctoral student requesting the recognition of the course credits;
- the request for credit recognition must be motivated by the advisor;
- approval by the Executive Committee.
Online courses
- topic not overlapping with courses offered by the Doctoral Programme;
- must be offered by a university;
- final examination/test at the end of the course;
- at least 20 hours long;
- content must be equal to the level of "post graduate";
- approval by the Executive Committee.
Seminars and Summer/Winter schools attendance recognition
- Seminars must be offered by the DISI Department (check out the DISI calendar);
- Summer/Winter School must be at least 20 hours long.
NB: The attendance of seminars and Summer/Winter schools does not give course credits.
Recognition procedure
In order to have either course credits or participation in seminars/summer/winter schools recognised, students must send an email to iecs.school [at] unitn.it with their supervisor in CC and the following information/documents
- name of the doctoral course/Master’s Degree course/online course/seminar/Summer/Winter school
- organising University/Institution
- place where it was held
- starting and ending date
- content
- total amount of hours
- grade (if present)
- certificate issued by /doctoral course/online course (attached to the email)