Organization: Understanding and Managing Extremes Graduate School, Institute for Advanced Study in Pavia
Registration deadline: 12 Apr 2016
Starting date: 01 Sep 2016
Ending date: 01 Sep 2019
The 2016/2017 edition of the Risk and Emergency Management (REM) curriculum of the PhD Programme in Understanding and Managing Extremes (UME) is being offered by the UME Graduate School of the IUSS Pavia to train graduates and professionals in the assessment, mitigation and management of extreme events, with a particular focus on those arising from natural hazards.
The unique characteristics of the programme include the broad, interdisciplinary curriculum that includes topics of statistics and probability, law, economics, resource management, natural hazards and risk, finance, insurance, sociology, communication, psychology, public health and medicine, and the innovative teaching structure which allows renowned lecturers from around the world to make up the teaching body.
Applications are currently open, with a deadline of April 12th 2016 at 13:00, and 11 scholarships are available for the highest ranking applicants. Full details of the programme, as well as the application procedure and scholarship opportunities, can be found at www.umeschool.it/rem/applications/
How to register:
Applications start page https://myiuss.unipv.it/iscrizioni_PhD.php?id=42
