Transversal activities shared by all Ph.D. courses

Under the national regulations concerning the PhD courses (Ministerial Decree 226/2021), the Scuola has provided ‒ according to its internal regulations ‒ the organization of disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses as well as of transversal activities, shared by all PhD courses: language and information technology lessons, knowledge of the European and international research systems, training in research management, in the enhancement of research results and protection of intellectual property.
Students attending the transversal activities will contribute towards the required education activities under the Ph.D. courses regulation of the SNS; in particular, according to the regulations of the Scuola, the above activities are included in the 150 hours of required attendance, up to a maximum of 30 hours, and must be added in the annual activities report.

Attendance at the Open Science and Research Data Management Course is mandatory for first-year students (enrolled in the academic year 2024/2025) and for second-year students (enrolled in the academic year 2023/2024) of all PhD courses offered by the Scuola Normale Superiore.

Transversal activities  - Academic Year 2024/2025

• Open Science and Research Data Management - in-person course (online only for EELISA network students)

The 2024-2025 edition is aimed at second-year PhD students, but also first-year students: the attendance requirement has been moved from the second year to the first year, as requested by the students who attended previous editions.

The course includes two in-person classes in Pisa, one introductory session common to all and one elective session, scheduled for June. Additional classes can be attended on a voluntary basis.

If it is not possible to attend the course in person in June 2025 due to an overseas stay or other academic commitments, you will have the opportunity to make up the course in subsequent years.

The purpose of the training activity dedicated to PhD students is to provide future researchers with useful information on copyright and the ways to disseminate research results, to raise awareness about data managing and sharing, and to present the obligations regarding open access and data management in the case of projects funded by third-party entities.

The duration of the training activity will be 6 and a half hours, divided into two modules:

1. a general module (3 and a half hours) dedicated to an introduction to open science, copyright, and open access, as well as a brief overview of the functionalities of the institutional research archive IRIS;
2. a specific module by disciplinary area (3 hours), with a practical focus, in which the FAIR principles will be presented through one or more useful tools for managing research data.

Look at the programme here. 

Please fill in the form to sign up by 27th April 2025.

For any questions or further information, please write to svr@sns.it.
 

• Academic English: Writing and Presenting with and without the support of LLMs 

Teacher: Dr. Adrian Wallwork

For more informations and detail: Program & Calendar

• SNS 5.0 - Research, innovation and impact: Series of events and training to support entrepreneurship and the valorization of research results for PhD students of the Scuola Normale Superiore

SNS 5.0 is the training initiative on the topics of entrepreneurship and the valorization of research proposed by the Research and Technology Transfer Service, in collaboration with the network of experts in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The recipients are the PhD students of the School, belonging to all 3 classes. The events will be in English and in person, taking place in the dedicated spaces of the Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio.

Please fill out this form to sign up - Deadline: March 27, 2025

To obtain the certificate of attendance, it is necessary to participate in the introductory meeting and at least one of the modules provided by the Calendar.

Further updates on the course program will be published on the website www.kto.sns.it