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Publication of 11.9.2023
Application to be admitted to dissertation and thesis upload
PhD students are allowed to submit the application to obtain their PhD degree and archive their thesis only online, by entering their personal page on UniCa website at: https://unica.esse3.cineca.it/Home.do. Please, follow the guidelines below:
ADMISSION TO FINAL EXAM AND THESIS UPLOAD - GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE APPLICATION
(ref. to the document attached at the bottom of this page)
The correct denominations of PhD programmes, in Italian and English, are available at: unica.it - Elenco dei corsi di dottorato
DO NOT SEND YOUR PhD THESIS TO THE EXAMINATION COMMITTEE NOR START TO UPLOAD YOUR THESIS BEFORE RECEIVING A SPECIFIC E-MAIL FROM THE PhD OFFICE!
Within the deadline indicated in the chart, applicants MUST:
- Submit the application to obtain their PhD degree
- Upload their thesis
- Pay the stamp duty (EUR 16.00)
Click on the Italian version of this notice to check the dates and places of PhD dissertations.
PhD thesis
The PhD thesis must be uploaded in a single PDF file, including its cover, not exceeding 50 MB. Uploading a thesis divided into multiple files is not allowed. The name of the file must be "tesi di dottorato_name and surname of the PhD student”.
The cover of the thesis will follow the format available below.
The academic year of the dissertation is 2021/2022 for Cycle XXXV PhD students.
ATTENTION! Changing the academic year is not possible! Do not add any extra information on the template! Please, consider that Calibri is the only official font to be used in the covrepage: do not change it with other fonts!
If you don't have any co-supervisor, delete that indication on the cover page.
Scientific Disciplinary Sector
The cover of the PhD thesis must indicate the code of its Scientific Disciplinary Sector, as requested by the Ministry of University and Research with notice no. 1581 of 26th July 2005. It is necessary to indicate only the alpha-numeric code (for example, MAT/01, ING-IND/19, M-FIL/06).
During the online submission, it will be possible to enter only the main SDS. The secondary SDSs could be entered in the section dedicated to the notes.
The complete list of the Scientific Disciplinary Sectors is available at https://www.miur.it/UserFiles/115.htm
Request for thesis embargo
The request for the thesis embargo can be submitted only in case of specific conditions. See the link “PhD thesis and copyright" (available only in Italian) and the document and "Definition of embargo" below.
The request form, available below, must be signed by the thesis supervisor and named “richiesta di embargo della tesi_name and surname of the PhD student”.
- Rector's Decree no. 1048 of 13th September 2023
- PhD thesis cover form - a.y. 2021/2022 (Italian version)
- PhD thesis cover form - a.y. 2021/2022 (English version)
- Admission to final exam and Thesis upload - Guidelines for online application (Italian version)
- Admission to final exam and Thesis upload - Guidelines for online application (English version)
- Definition of embargo
- Embargo request form