The Scuola Superiore Meridionale (hereafter SSM) is seeking to award the following five two-year postdoctoral research contracts, full-time:
To be admitted to the selection process, the following requirements are necessary, under penalty of exclusion:
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Candidates on non-Italian nationality are required to:
No person who is related by kinship (up to and including the fourth degree) to a professor who belongs to the Steering Committee of the SSM or to the Director-General is eligible to participate to this selection procedure.
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:
Candidates are required to
1) Possess, by the deadline of this call for applications, a PhD; those who will obtain their first Ph.D. degree no later than six months after the date in which the Call is published are also allowed to participate.
In this case, candidates are admitted to the selection with reservation, so that if they are selected but do not have obtained their degree by the above mentioned date, they will be declared ineligible;
2) if they hold a PhD degree issued by an Italian institution, to have completed, before the conclusion of the doctoral program, a stay abroad for training and research of at least 3 months. For applicants having carried out their PhD course at a site abroad (non-Italian), the requirement is considered automatically fulfilled. Applicants who declare that they were unable to participate in mobility abroad during their doctoral studies due to decisions made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency will be admitted to the selection process with reservation, pending verification by the Administration of the effective impossibility of mobility due to the containment measures adopted by the Italian government and the competent authorities and those deputated by them during the pandemic emergency.
3) fall under the category of “young researcher”: a researcher of any nationality who, for various reasons, has not yet gained consolidated experience in the management of research groups and is not in a contractual position that guarantees a stable career prospect in research. This definition includes all researchers who, as of February 20, 2025, are 40 years of age or, for profiles aged over 40 and up to 45, have completed their PhD within the last 7 years and who find themselves in one or more of the following situations:
Considering the nature of the research to be carried out, the following qualifications will be valid as preferential titles:
Submission
Applications, as well as all the required attachments, are to be submitted – one for each profile to which the applicant is interested – EXCLUSIVELY through the online procedure accessed via the PICA application by June 27 2025, 14:00 Central European Time
Late applications as well as all those not submitted through the online procedure will not be accepted.
Start of the research contract
Successful applicants will be made aware of the procedures for stipulating the contracts. Fellowship have a two-year duration and are only renewable once.
Processing of personal data
In accordance with EU Regulation No. 679/2016, candidates are informed that the personal data they provide will be processed solely for the purposes of this procedure and the eventual establishment of the employment relationship and for purposes related to its management.
Referral to the unabridged official version
For any matter not mentioned in this call please refer to the Regulations for the awarding of grants for the conduct of research activities and the awarding of research contracts of the SSM and to the current provisions on the subject.
This document is an abstract of the original Italian language call by SSM “selezione pubblica, per titoli e colloquio, per l’assegnazione di n. 5 contratti di ricerca, a tempo pieno e della durata di 24 mesi, per l’assunzione di giovani ricercatori internazionali post-dottorato presso la Scuola Superiore Meridionale”. For details please refer to the unabridged official version in Italian, available at the following link: https://www.ssmeridionale.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bando-contratti-di-ricerca-SSM.pdf The Italian-language version remains the only legally binding one.
Location: | Naples - Italy |
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Salary: | Not Specified |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 4th June 2025 |
Closes: | 27th June 2025 |
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