Regulation & Procedures | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science
 

Regulation & Procedures

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Enrolment 1, 2, 3 years

Each year, doctoral students have to submit their enrolment by the online procedure.

The details on the regulations and procedures are available at: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1928/enrolment-in-the-1st-and-following-years

Program suspension

Doctoral students have the right to suspend their studies in case of:

  • maternity
  • serious and certified illness
  • internship programmes for the training of teachers (Italian TFA)

Absence due to severe and documented personal rand/or family reasons (other than the ones listed above) must be explicitly authorized by the Doctoral Committee.

The details on the regulations and the form of request for suspension are available at: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1930/phd-students-withdrawal-suspension-exclusion

The request of suspension must be filled out and sent together with any requested documentation to central doctoral office (phd.office-st [at] unitn.it) and IECS School Secretariat (iecs.school [at] unitn.it

Travel and reimbursement procedure

BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR YOUR TRAVEL

1. Before doing the online application please send an email to the IECS School Secretariat (iecs.school [at] unitn.it

) keeping your advisor in cc, with the detail of your mission:

  • where you go;
  • for what reason;
  • from which day to which day;
  • which fund you are going to use (either Personal or other funds).

2. In order to finalize the authorization request, that must be done before the departure, you should:

  1. login at My UniTN (top right of every UniTRENTO website);
  2. access to "Gestione trasferte" (Missions manager);
  3. click on "Create a new Travel Authorization Request form", steps:
  • Applicant data: the data will be generated by the system, please check the "Choose the correct area" field displays the Department's name: Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione and the "in quality of" field displays your doctoral student status: Dottorando;

    Please note that even if you are not going to ask reimbursement, you must have your travel authorized for insurance reasons. In this case flag I don’t ask any reimbursement for this travel at the end of this session.

  • Travel data: after having filled in the information on the travel, 

    FOR THE USE OF YOUR RESEARCH BUDGET choose in "search a project"  Principal Investigator: Ricci, Elisa; in the funds list choose "Dotazione dott per attività ricerca S35 - 40300385" or type them in the fields (SAP code: 40300385; Description: Dotazione dott per attività ricerca S35)

    Please note you can use your Personal Funds up to the end (31st October) of the third academic year.

    FOR THE USE OF OTHER FUNDS - Principal Investigator: Surname, Name of the fund's manager > FUND 

  • in Attachments upload a brochure/convocation e-mail/agenda/poster/screenshot of the event main webpage. This is very important, otherwise the Mission Office will reject your request;

  • Reasons;
  • Advance payment - fill in this part if you want to request an advance on the travel expenses you had done before leaving.

We would like to remind you that if you decide to leave and/or come back on a day different to the one written on the "Travel Authorization Request form", you must submit to the Accounting Office not only all the documents (receipts and bus/train/airplane tickets/boarding passes), but also a document showing the travel costs for the day written in the "Travel Authorization Request form"; the less expensive one will be reimbursed.

IMPORTANT: even if you are not going to not ask for reimbursement, please note that you must have your travel authorized for insurance reasons. In this case just flag I don’t ask any reimbursement for this travel at the end of the authorization's first part Applicant data
 

AFTER YOU COME BACK

You should:

1. login at MyUniTN;
2. access "Gestione trasferte" (Missions manager);
3. find your travel and click on the "L" symbol (it's important you don't click on the A in the yellow box or in the A in the red one, the former will archive your mission, the later will delete it);
4. in the "Travel Expenses Reimbursement Request form" steps:

  • Applicant data (the data will be generated by the system);
  • Travel data, insert the missing information (return time);
  • in Further data - Other notes: write every information that would be helpful for the reimbursement, such as: if you changed the day of your leaving/return if the enrollment was paid with the Department Credit Card, if the tickets/hotels have been booked with a travel agency and paid directly by the University;

5. Expenses incurred: insert one by one every expense you had, you'll have to submit to the Mission Office the original tickets/receipts in order to get reimbursed;
6. Send "Travel Expenses Reimbursement Request form".
7. Print the Expenses Incurred page and take the Original Receipts/Tickets/Boarding Passes to the Mission Office (via alla Cascata, 56 Povo) from Monday to Friday 10:00am-12:00pm

NB: the use of a taxi is allowed up to € 30, in the trip from/to the airport/station and inside the mission municipality,

For any further question please refer to the Mission Office: missioni.collina [at] unitn.it (via alla Cascata, 56 Povo)

Additional information:

  • All bookings, purchases, registration for conferences and formalities relative to the mission are to be carried out by the doctoral student
  • All bookings and purchases should be regulated according to the criteria of reasonable economical management (expenses relative to taxis, phone calls, Internet connections, personal use of car and anything not expressed in the University Regulations concerning missions will not be reimbursed). In choosing the means of transportation you have to use the cheapest option, the same for lodging (student houses).
  • No reimbursement can be requested for a trip for personal reasons.
Registration fees payment 

PhD students can use their research budget to pay the fee for conferences or schools registration.
In any case, travel to the event must have been authorized in advance (see section "Travel and reimbursement procedure" above). 

UniTrento administration office will pay on your behalf in advance. The procedure varies depending on where the event is held and who the organisers are

Option 1: The event is in Italy (or organized by an Italian organization)
The registration fee must be paid by the University by bank transfer. 
It's important that the student does not pay for their own, otherwise they will not be reimbursed.

  1. fill in the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaMgIT8M5N_RrIYofaytmiC3bQwZ2JRzF2i23w5VUAhMlfFg/viewform
  2. you will receive the form by e-mail once you have completed it. You have to sign it (pag. 3) and send it  to the Doctoral School’s Secretariat iecs.school [at] unitn.it with your advisor in CC (otherwise it will not be considered) together with an invitation letter or a screenshot of the event’s webpage with the following info:
    - event location
    - event dates
    - registration fee cost
    - a contact email of the organizers
    Don’t send link, send one or more files with the info required

Option 2: The event is abroad (or organized in Italy by a foreign organization)
The registration fee can be paid by the University by bank transfer or by Department credit card. Bank transfer is always preferable, but it takes longer and you need to start the process as soon as possible.

If you choose payment by bank transfer: 

  1. you must ask a pro-forma invoice/payment request from the organizers with the University details on it (below)
    University of Trento
    Via Calepina n. 14 - 38122 TRENTO
    Tax code and VAT no. IT00340520220 
  2. fill in the following form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaMgIT8M5N_RrIYofaytmiC3bQwZ2JRzF2i23w5VUAhMlfFg/viewform
  3. you will receive the form by e-mail once you have completed it. You have to sign it (pag. 3) and send it  to the Doctoral School’s Secretariat iecs.school [at] unitn.it with your advisor in CC (otherwise it will not be considered) together with an invitation letter or a screenshot of the event’s webpage with the following info:
    - event location
    - event dates
    - registration fee cost
    - pro-forma invoice/payment request
    Don’t send link, send one or more files with the info required

If you choose payment by Department credit card: 

  1. fill in the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaMgIT8M5N_RrIYofaytmiC3bQwZ2JRzF2i23w5VUAhMlfFg/viewform 
  2. you will receive the form by e-mail once you have completed it. You have to sign it (pag. 3) and send it  )
    to the Doctoral School’s Secretariat iecs.school [at] unitn.it with your advisor in CC (otherwise it will not be considered) together with an invitation letter or a screenshot of the event’s webpage with the following info:
    - event location
    - event dates
    - registration fee cost
    Don’t send link, send one or more files with the info required