IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites applications for a number of PhD scholarships starting in February 2010 in any of the faculty groups represented at ITU. FIRST Research School: theoretical computer science and fundamental software technologies, sensornets, databases, algorithms for large amounts of data, automated reasoning, business processes, category theory, complexity, concurrency, domain theory, distributed and mobile computing, model checking, planning, software engineering, scheduling, verification, test, and configuration; efficient computation, electronic health records and electronic voting, logical fram eworks, software architectures, objectoriented methodology and notations, functional and object-oriented programming languages, proof assistants, semantics, ubiquitous computing, user interfaces, workflow languages. http://www.first.dk Center for Computer Games Research: Game aesthetics, game ontology, games and narratives, game culture, game play, player communiti

2009 Call for Applications for the Ph.D program in European Private Law. University of Messina offers 1 Ph.D. scolarship reserved for foreign students from countries outside the European Union, to attend Doctoral School in European Private Law. Our 3 year Program of Doctoral Studies, that requires the knowledge of Italian language, provides outstanding training for study and research in the various fields of European Private Law. The first year of the Ph.D Program mainly regards to: 1) advanced coursework in European Contract Law (Prof. Vincenzo Scalisi - Jean Monnet Professor ad personam); 2) Jean Monnet course about Fundamental human rights and freedom of economic initiatives in the European Union. Applications must be sent at the latest by September 17, 2009 . To apply, please read the Call for Applications available at this link . For questions please contact Prof. Clorinda Ciraolo, Director of the PhD Program in European Private Law, at: cciraolo[ at ]unime.it