<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-variant:small-caps">PhD
Scholarships</span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">The doctoral school in Management Engineering at University of Genoa,
Italy, offers PhD scholarships in the field of knowledge management.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Topic</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Corporate knowledge management</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Brief Description</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">The PhD scholarship position concerns the design, development and
implementation of a social knowledge management system for large and
distributed organizations. The general architecture of the system includes the
design, development and implementation of:</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span style="line-height:115%">A corporate social networking tool</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">A dynamic knowledge repository for
structured and unstructured data</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">A business intelligence system to
extract new knowledge from the stored data</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Profile of the applicant</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Conduit ITC W01 Light'">S</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:'Conduit ITC W01 Light'">kills
and competencies that may be particularly useful when applying include:</span><span lang="EN" style="line-height:115%"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">service-oriented programming and web programming.
An interest in data warehousing, data mining and business analytics are welcome.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">References</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify">Silvano CINCOTTI, PhD, Professor of Economic and Financial Engineering,
University of Genoa, Italy<br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Silvia MASSA, PhD, Professor of Business Economics, University of Genoa,
Italy</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Eligibility and deadlines</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Applicants must be holders of a University degree allowing them to enter
into doctoral training (by 10-30-2014).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">The call of applications will be open in the next few days (by the end
of June) and will stay open for two months. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">It is important to visit the official website (link found below) to
access the application form and to have detailed information on how to apply
for this scholarship.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Website</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://www.studenti.unige.it/postlaurea/dottorati/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.studenti.unige.it/postlaurea/dottorati/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%"> </span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">Contacts</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">To have further information on the position in question, please contact </span><a href="mailto:silvia.massa@unige.it"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">silvia.massa@unige.it</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%"></span></p>

<div><br></div>-- <br>Antonella Martini, Ph.D.<div>Associate professor of Managerial Engineering and Organization</div><div>University of Pisa</div><div>DESTEC</div><div>L.go L. Lazzarino, 2</div><div>56122 - PISA (I)</div>

<div>tel. +39 50 2217361</div><div>web portal: <a href="http://antonellamartini.weebly.com" target="_blank">here</a></div><div><br></div>
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