Join a peer-to-peer conversation with EUI researchers about their PhD journeys!
As part of its Widening Europe Programme, the European University Institute will host two PhD info sessions online aimed at prospective applicants from targeted EUI Widening Europe Programme countries*. This initiative reflects the EUI’s commitment to broadening participation in European academic life and ensuring that talented scholars from underrepresented countries can access opportunities to pursue advanced research training.
The activity will consist of two online sessions (one hour each) that will focus on peer-to-peer experience-sharing and practical guidance on the EUI PhD application. Current EUI researchers will reflect on their own journeys and on what made their applications successful. Each session will also include time for questions and discussion.
During these sessions, participants will be able to:
- Hear first-hand perspectives on the academic culture at the EUI and its PhD programmes.
- Learn from researchers’ reflections on preparing their own proposals and interviews and what influenced their applications.
- Engage in peer-to-peer conversations with current doctoral researchers about both the challenges and opportunities of academic life.
- Find motivation and encouragement, especially for those who may have fewer opportunities to connect with international academic networks.
Through this activity, the EUI Widening Europe Programme continues to advance its mission of sharing knowledge, building networks, and strengthening academic capacity across Europe.
About the speakers
- Anna Antunes Pelizzari is a Luso-Italian PhD Researcher at the Department of Law at the European University Institute. She works with the intersection of technology and AI regulation, and criminal procedural law. She analyses the right to access to information in criminal investigations applied to AI-assisted investigative measures, and the extent of information on the discarded data and materials of the case that the defence should, and can, have access to.
- Nahla Mansour is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute from Egypt. Her thesis examines whether political parties are rewarded or punished for political moderation and how electoral rules can condition these electoral costs, in both left-right ideological competition and ethnic competition in deeply divided societies. She holds an Erasmus Mundus International Master's in South European Studies and a BSc in Political Science from Cairo University.
- Beatriz de Figueiredo is a Portuguese PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, working at the intersection of anthropology and political science. Her thesis, titled "Working in the Catch-22: the Making of Migrant Irregularity and Informal Livelihoods across Naples and São Paulo" searches for anti-functional explanations of migrant irregularisation and its connections to informal labour markets.
Another info session is held on:
* List of targeted countries in the Widening region
Inside the European Union: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Outside the European Union: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo(1), Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine.
(1) This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244(1999) and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
This activity is funded by the EUI Widening Europe Programme. The EUI Widening Europe Programme initiative, backed by contributions from the European Union and EUI Contracting States, is designed to strengthen internationalisation, competitiveness and quality in research in Widening Countries, and thus foster a more cohesive European Higher Education and Research Area.
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