For the A.Y. 2025-2026, the University for Foreigners of Perugia – in continuity with what has already been started in the A.Y.s 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 – is joining, as a funding partner pursuant to DM 226/21, the establishment of four National Interest PhD Programs (DIN) involving numerous Italian universities.
The National Interest PhD Programs (DIN) are doctoral programs designed and established by a consortium of universities and high-level research institutions of recognized international standing. The DIN provides for the sharing of teaching and research activities, the methods for regulating forms of financial support, and the exchange and mobility of professors and PhD students with the aim of contributing to the advancement of research. The doctoral student enrolls at the university that is the administrative headquarters of the course but carries out research activities at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.
As already for A.Y.s 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, for A.Y. 2025-2026, to complete its research training offer represented by the standard PhD courses, the University for Foreigners of Perugia has joined four national PhD programs.
For the XLI cycle, A.Y. 2025-2026, the National Interest PhD Programs (DIN) in which the University for Foreigners of Perugia is a partner and operational site are:
- National Interest PhD Program in Teaching & Learning Sciences: Inclusion, Technologies, Educational Research and Evaluation
Administrative Headquarters: University of Macerata
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia – Department of Italian Language, Literature and Arts in the World (LILAIM) - National Interest PhD Program in Peace Studies
Administrative Headquarters: Sapienza University of Rome
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia - Department of Italian Language, Literature and Arts in the World (LILAIM) - National Interest PhD Program in Religious Studies (DREST)
Administrative Headquarters: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia - Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI) - National Interest PhD Program in European Studies
Administrative Headquarters: University of Genoa
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia - Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI)
For the XL cycle, A.Y. 2024-2025, the National Interest PhD Program (DIN) in which the University for Foreigners of Perugia is a partner and operational site is
- National Interest PhD Program in Teaching & Learning Sciences: Inclusion, Technologies, Educational Research and Evaluation
Administrative Headquarters: University of Macerata
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia (1 PNRR Doctoral Scholarship - D.M. n. 630/2024 Inv. 3.3 Innovative with enterprise) – Department of Italian Language, Literature and Arts in the World (LILAIM)
For the XXXIX cycle, A.Y. 2023-2024, the four National Interest PhD Programs (DIN) in which the University for Foreigners of Perugia is a partner and operational site are:
- National Interest PhD Program in European Studies
Administrative Headquarters: University of Genoa
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia (1 PNRR Doctoral Scholarship - DM 118/2023) - Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI) - National Interest PhD Program in Teaching & Learning Sciences: Inclusion, Technologies, Educational Research and Evaluation
Administrative Headquarters: University of Macerata
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia (1 PNRR Doctoral Scholarship - DM 118/2023) - Department of Italian Language, Literature and Arts in the World (LILAIM) - National Interest PhD Program in Religious Studies (DREST)
Administrative Headquarters: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia (1 PNRR Doctoral Scholarship - DM 118/2023) - Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI) - National Interest PhD Program in Learning Sciences and Digital Technologies
Administrative Headquarters: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Operational site: University for Foreigners of Perugia (1 PNRR Doctoral Scholarship - DM 117/2023) - Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI)