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GMPF & International Doctoral Programme
The International Doctoral Programme is one of the CRIʼs most important initiatives. In fact, the Fondazio-Fondazione Edmund Mach has recently created two doctoral programmes that will characterise its future activities. These will, in addition, benefit from the CRIʼs more than ten years internationally-recognised experience in doctoral fields and a research policy attentive to the expectations of consumers and producers.
The PhD fellowships are advertised internationally and are awarded after a stringent selection procedure. Successful candidates carry out research projects involving at least two of the participating institutions and have access to state-of-the art facilities in these institutions. The outstanding quality of the research organizations involved in the PhD programme will ensure fellows have access to toplevel research training and tuition. Students will also have the opportunity to attend specialized summer courses aimed at keeping their methodological and technological competences up to date.
The International Doctoral Programme in the Genomics and Molecular Physiology of Fruit (GMPF) occupies a prominent position in that it was the first of its kind to be set up: established in 2008, operations began the following summer. It offers highlevel study and research programmes in a context of national and international scientific cooperation between doctoral students and, more generally, between member institutions. The GMPF is the first programme in Italy to offer a high-level programme aimed at training researchers to develop a more sustainable and competitive fructiculture in Europe.
In addition to being located within the CRIʼs, this pioneering programme enjoys the collaboration of 17 institutions from all over the world: from the University of Trento to the Washington State University (USA), from the Plant and Food Research Institute in North Palmerston (New Zealand) to the University of Bologna, from the Plant Research International in Wageningen (The Netherlands) to the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).
GMPF students will complete their study and research programme with an outstanding curriculum in the fields of genomics, information technology, functional genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, genetics, and the genetic improvement and molecular physiology of fruit tree species.
In 2010 the Research and Innovation Centre launched a parallel initiative called International PhD Programme (IPP).
Each year around ten scholarships are awarded for this programme in topics as agrobiosciences, food biosciences, terrestrial and freshwater ecology, climate change mitigation and adaptation, agro-biology and eco-biology.
our research : key subjects
part_1 Plants for the future part_2 Food for life part_3 A sustainable world part_4 Interactions in living systems