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The Call for application for the Ph.D. programme, 38th cycle (2022/2023), is now open.
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The Call covers the following positions.
CURRICULUM OF GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS
Positions with Roma Tre Scholarship: 1
Positions with PNRR Scholarship (ex D.M. 351/2022): 1
Positions without Scholarship: 1
Total positions with and without Scholarship: 3
The PNRR grant (ex D.M. 351/2022) has a pre-defined research topic related to the project: “City in 15 minutes – Sustainable Urban Models of Decentralization in Order to Guarantee Proximity Services”
The scholarship requires students with a solid competence in law and administration. In the 2020 elections, the current mayor of the Paris City Council, Anne Hidalgo, included in her electoral program a project called City in 15 minutes (La ville du quart d’heure) which is now being implemented. The project plans to reorganize urban spaces and infrastructures in such a way as to allow citizens to meet their daily needs only through walking or cycling that originate from private homes. The City in 15 minutes was theorized by Carlos Moreno (professeur associé et Directeur scientifique de la Chaire Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation at the Institut d’administration des entreprises de Paris Sorbonne) and, before him, by Jane Jacobs (anthropologist and urban planner) based on some experiences started at the beginning of the 2000s in various international metropolises (Melbourne, Portland, Copenhagen, etc.). The project theorizes a polycentric city where the neighborhoods assume the configuration of communities that allow the full use of proximity services, that is, both services provided directly by the municipal administration (such as social, school and health) and those for which the local administration acts as a promoter or facilitator. This last is the case, for example, of the provision of disused or partially used public spaces for temporary use or shared management by local communities for entertainment, mutual support, sports, or other purposes.
The pandemic and climate crises are vehicles that have strengthened the value of the urban proximity project. Proximity has made it possible to increase social relations and determines an increase in solidarity between citizens, favoring the enhancement of even the most fragile social groups traditionally excluded from traditional urban planning models. Moreover, the limitation of travel through transport and vehicles has shown a significant reduction in emissions into the atmosphere and, therefore, a concrete ability to pursue climate objectives. The concrete implementation of the City in 15 minutes requires a process of revision of urban planning that aims to redesign the role and distribution of social infrastructures in the Territory, such as schools and social and health facilities. This transformation leads, as well, to a re-articulation of the relationship, subject to the constraints imposed by the urban planning law and the related standards, between built-up spaces and green spaces. In coordination with the replanning of the urban mobility system (the times and flows of the City, as jean Bernard Auby suggests in his Droit de la ville), this re-articulation can favor evident positive environmental and social impacts due, for example, to the increase in motor activity. The role of law (and administrative law in particular) appears fundamental to investigate.
First, it is essential to study the starting regulatory framework in which the spatial transformations that would derive from implementing the “City in 15 minutes” project could be placed. The feasibility of the changes induced by the revision of the urban structure is, in fact, closely related to the legal rules of reference and the ownership structures of which the City is composed, where the assets that insist on it are divided between public and private property. The legal analysis would, therefore, have a double value: a) outline the boundaries functional to make urban change projects effective; b) favor the definition of regulatory and regulatory solutions as well as adequate administrative processes to support and not hinder the implementation of the reform. In other words, even if the “City in 15 minutes” project is highly multidisciplinary, administrative law is an essential element for its implementation. For doctoral research on a three-year basis, the relevance and topicality of the proposed theme are evident both from a global perspective and a more markedly territorial perspective. About the first aspect, in July 2020, the Cities Climate Leadership Group – C40, a network of mayors of almost a hundred large cities that collaborate to address, with shared policies, the climate crisis, adopted a report that indicates, as a way to recover from emergency damage, the application of “The City in 15 minutes”.
This document highlights the direct effect of inclusion that this conception could have on the use and articulation of urban spaces through the application of already known but used only partially or fragmentally legal instruments, such as urban plans and participatory budgets. Concerning the second aspect, during the recent administrative elections, the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, had indicated, as an objective of his possible legislature, the application of the model of the “City in 15 minutes” to the urban Territory of Rome. The initial element of this reform is the devolution of functions and resources from the Municipality to the Municipalities. The completion of this process of decentralization (also, but not only administrative will lead to a modification of the Statute of Rome capital and the related regulations of operation and organization. Immediately after the elections, the Department of Decentralization, Participation, and Services to the Territory for the City of 15 minutes, and the Council of Presidents of the Municipality started defining a work program on administrative decentralization. It has to be shared by the central structures and Municipalities and the Observatory on Municipal Decentralization, the executive body in charge of planning and implementing the interventions in terms of decentralization and enhancement of the Municipalities. In light of the ongoing processes, the Municipality of Rome has been identified as a stakeholder in the project’s development.
Thanks to this institutional collaboration, the Doctoral Course will also be able to acquire the character of applied research in public administrations able to promote the integrated development of the knowledge and skills required by Article 8, letter a, of Ministerial Decree no. 331/2022 regarding the eligibility criteria of doctorates for the Public Administration. Among those listed, it should be noted the reconstruction and interpretation of the legal framework of reference, national and supranational for the individual policy sector, the participation in the government, organization, and strategic direction of public administrations (both at the national, regional and local level) through the implementation of innovative strategies strongly oriented to users and the effectiveness of the actions implemented, as well as the enhancement of resources and support for institutional design also through the experimentation of innovative tools of the different governance models in a comparative key between policy sectors. Finally, during the three years of the doctorate, a period of research will be carried out abroad, particularly at the Universidad de Barcelona, where Tomas Font, catedrático de Derecho Administrativo and author of publications on districts, works, among others. Precisely this metropolis is, in fact, at the center of an animated debate aimed at reviewing its urban structure following the pandemic emergency in the direction of implementing the City of 15 minutes project. The need to highlight this profound change in the definition and functionality of urban spaces is, moreover, participated by civil society, institutional bodies, and academia, as demonstrated by the Shared Manifesto published in 2020. and from which it is possible to draw indications of great interest such as, for example, the conception of neighborhoods as autonomous urban “blocks” connected through forms of sustainable mobility. Candidates will have to present a project in the field.
CURRICULUM OF GENDER STUDIES
Positions with Roma Tre Scholarship: 1
Total positions with and without Scholarship: 1
CURRICULUM OF EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Positions with Roma Tre Scholarship: 3
Positions with PNRR Scholarship (ex D.M. 351/2022): 1
Positions with Scholarship funded by the MEDOR Foundation: 1
(of which) Scholarships reserved for foreign citizens with a foreign degree: 2
Positions without Scholarship: 1
Total positions with and without Scholarship: 6
The PNRR grant (ex D.M. 351/2022) has a pre-defined research topic related to the project: “Christian Democracy and International Politics in Cold War Italy: For an Enhancement of the Istituto Sturzo’s Archival Heritage”
The scholarship aims to enhance and internationalize the significant archival heritage related to international politics in the period of the Cold War preserved at the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome. Application is welcome from students of Contemporary History, History of International Relations, and Area Studies History. The Institute has a very rich archive covering many aspects of 20th century history. It is the depository of the personal papers of many personalities who had a significant institutional role (Luigi Sturzo, George Cioranescu, Emilio Colombo, Luigi Vittorio Ferraris, Guido Gonella, Luigi Granelli, Giovanni Gronchi, Flaminio Piccoli, Attilio Piccioni, Mario Scelba, Giacomo Sedati, Vittorino Veronese). It also contains the documents of the Christian Democratic Party (Political Secretariat, National Direction, Congresses, DC Group of the Chamber of Deputies, DC Group of the Senate of the Republic, Political Manifestos). The scholarship is aimed at achieving a synergy between the Institute’s heritage and the scientific research skills on the history of the DC and the history of international politics present in the Department.
The Archives need a precise, complete computer indexing of files related to international politics, an English translation of this indexing, and the digitization of documents. Furthermore, the incomplete inventory of funds also means that some of them are not accessible. Therefore, the archival research work will be carried out in collaboration and under the guidance of the Sturzo staff. It will allow to accurately identify the documentation relating to international politics, provide an IT indexing (also in English), and digitize what has been found to facilitate its conservation and making it available to a wider audience.
A period of research abroad (Wilson Center in Washington, an institution which has a solid history of collaboration with the Doctorate) will allow the integration of national studies with the most advanced foreign research on international relations. Candidates will have to present a project that frames their research on the subject in a thematic, chronological way, or which ìs based on an in-depth study of the personalities involved.
The grant funded by the MEDOR Foundation has a pre-defined research topic related to the project: “Energy, the environment and security in the Middle East and the Mediterranean”
The grant is entirely financed by the Leonardo/Med-Or Foundation. Candidates are asked to present an interdisciplinary research project on the growing interaction between energy, environmental and security issues in the Middle East/Mediterranean region, with particular attention to the policies of one or more states from the region. The grant is reserved to foreign citizens from one of the following states: Qatar, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Israel, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia.