ITALY: Scholarships at Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP)

The Alta Scuola Politecnica (hereafter indicated as ASP) is launching a call for applications addressed to young talents who want to develop their interdisciplinary capabilities for leading and promoting innovation.

Founded by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino, the ASP may be attended only by talents who enrol in one of their programmes of laurea specialistica (hereafter indicated as LS) in Engineering, Architecture or Design. The ASP, through a highly selective process, gives 150 promising students the opportunity to participate an additional advanced programme that runs in parallel to the LS programmes.

ASP students complement the knowledge achieved in their specific LS with a multifaceted and enriched understanding of innovation processes and contexts. They develop an interdisciplinary attitude to conceive, plan, implement and promote complex innovation projects that produce sustainable progress in economy, society and culture. The ASP is characterised by a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of students and professors, a prominent international Faculty, advanced seminars and study projects in close cooperation with business enterprises and governmental institutions.

There are 3 separate calls, each targeted to a specific group of students and with different deadlines:

1. a call reserved to foreign citizens (EU and extra EU), who have not graduated in Italy, deadline May 31st, 2007;
2. a call reserved to students who have graduated in Italy, not in the regions of Lombardia or Piemonte, to be issued on June 1st, 2007 with application deadline on July 15th, 2007;
3. a general call, open to all students and relative to all unassigned places after admitting students at calls n. 1 and n. 2 (at least 74 places available), to be issued on June 15th, 2007 with deadline September 15th, 2007.

The present call is call number 1, targeted to foreign citizens (EU and extra EU).

Number of Places
For the Academic Year 2007-2008, the ASP will enrol up to 150 students, 90 at Politecnico di Milano and 60 at Politecnico di Torino. The number of students enrolled may increase after this call, if further financial resources become available. Up to 38 places of the aforementioned are reserved to talented foreign students (EU and extra-EU citizens), 23 at Politecnico di Milano and 15 at Politecnico di Torino. This specific call concerns these 38 places reserved to foreign students.

Admission Fees
Students admitted in the Academic Year 2007-2008 will benefit from fee waiver for the two years of the ASP study programme.

Deadline for the Submission of Applications

1. The deadline for application for places reserved to foreign students is May 31st, 2007 and applicants will receive communication of acceptance before June 30th, 2007.
2. The application forms for admission to the selection have to be filled out on-line (www.asp-poli.it, Admission and Financial Aid section), printed on plain paper and signed, and have to be sent by regular/priority mail or by fax to the same university where the ASP candidate is also applying for the laurea specialistica (the Politecnico di Milano or the Politecnico di Torino)

Alta Scuola Politecnica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
I-20133 Milano
Italy
Fax +39 02 2399 9795

Alta Scuola Politecnica
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
I-10129 Torino
Italy
Fax +39 011 090 5767
3. Whatever the mean of delivery, application forms must be received at the above offices before the deadline indicated (May 31st, 2007). The ASP will not be held responsible for any delay in the arrival of the application forms due to irregular mail delivery or other
possible causes.

Further Information, please visit the Official Announcement