5 ESRs positions in the Doctoral Programme CLOE (MSCA-COFUND 2020) (# of pos: 5)

UniGe is recruiting 5 ESRs under the Doctoral Programme CLOE - MSCA COFUND 2020

CLOE Doctoral programme -  Training to complexity: multidisciplinary approaches to rural and mountain sustainable development and conservation

The 2021 call for applications for 5 positions within CLOE Doctoral Programme has been published on University of Genova Ph.D. programmes' webpage. They are reserved to Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) who also comply with thw MSCA mobility rule (cfr. requirements for details).

Please read carefully the full call for application and its annexes on the institutional Ph.D. programmes' webpage (https://unige.it/en/usg/en/phd-programmes ) in order to submit your application. The complete document about the notice of competition is available here   https://unige.it/sites/contenuti.unige.it/files/documents/BANDO%2037%20CICLO%20-settembre%20-%20EN.pdf

CLOE Doctoral Programme training is focused on multidisciplinary approaches to mountain and rural sustainable development and conservation starting from historical, environmental and legal perspectives.The project aims to train 15 PhD students from different countries also thanks to the collaboration of institution and organisation of the Liguria Region and excellent European research centres. CLOE supervisors develop their research in rural and mountain areas carrying out important European projects about: historical process of mountain marginalisation, living rural heritage, biodiversity and natural heritage conservations, measures to mitigate climate change and environmental risks, territorial justice, democracy in marginal areas. The objectives is to answer to one of the most important objectives of national and regional innovation strategies: address the problem of the abandonment of in-lands areas, promoting new approaches to locally-based, socially fair and sustainable development and thus contributing to better respond to the needs of rural areas in term of land management and territorial justice.

The positions are available on Environmental Engineering (1), Environmental economy (2); Political philosophy (3); Biodiversity & botany (4); Rural and environmental history and archaeology (5)

As detailed in the call for applications, the candidate has to present the complete Curriculum Vitae and a research project. The candidate has to choose one of the two proposed themes about each position for the preparation of the research project, as summarised below:

1) Environmental Engineering  PhD course: CIVIL, CHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING- Curriculum FLUID DYNAMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Research Theme 1: Hydrogeological risk analysis and mitigation by sustainable countermeasures and interdisciplinary approaches for the territory protection and the community resilience improvement; Research Theme 2: Decision support systems in fragile and orographically complex contexts subject to significant hydrogeological events. Contact e-mail: Prof.ssa Bianca Federici: [email protected]

2) Environmental Economy PhD course in ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY  Research Theme 1: Development of theoretical and applied models to integrate ecosystem-economics accounting for valuing and monitoring biodiversity conservation and sustainable development and non-compensatory indicators to support decision-making processes. Research Theme 2: Choice modelling techniques and cost-benefit analysis for policy design and environmental economic valuation supporting ecological transition and sustainable development. Contact e-mail: Prof.ssa Barbara Cavalletti: [email protected]

3) Political Philosophy PhD Course PHILOSOPHY (FINO)  Curriculum: ETHICS AND POLITICAL THEORY  Research Theme 1: Territorial justice and fair geographical distribution of resources across urban/mountain areas. Research Theme 2: Theorising individual and communal rights to stay in marginalised mountain areas. Contact e-mail: Prof.ssa Valeria Ottonelli: [email protected]

4) Biodiversity and botany PhD course: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND TERRITORY  Curriculum: BIOLOGY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE AND TO THE ENVIRONMENT  Research Theme 1: Re-Wild vs Neo-settlement in mountain areas: implications on natural and anthropogenic biodiversity in Western Alps and/or North Apennines. Research Theme 2: Changes in flora and vegetation related to mountain settlements with particular regard to invasive alien species in Western Alps and/or North Apennines. Contact e-mail: Prof. Mauro Mariotti: [email protected]

5) Rural and environmental history and archaeology PhD course in: HISTORY, HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY Curriculum: ARCHAEOLOGY Research Theme 1: History and archaeology of collective domains and commons, present past and future. Research Theme 2: Heritage and heritagisation processes and territorial policies (18th-21th c.). Contact e-mail: Prof.ssa Anna Maria Stagno: [email protected]

PhD programme CLOE presentation

Mountain and rural sustainable development and conservation are problems at the centre of the debate. The depopulation and abandonment of rural areas, with their environmental and social consequences, are a priority on the agenda of national and European governments in the coming years.  Present education and career paths are strongly disciplinary oriented and do not allow to build up the competencies and perspectives to recollect the links between the phenomena and the areas of knowledge around mountains and rural areas, to promote new locally-based approaches that is urgent to promote with the aim to stop their abandonment and guarantee a socially fair and sustainable development to their inhabitants as well as the conservation of our common cultural and natural heritage. According to EU Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training, CLOE willaddress this challenge through an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral Doctoral Programme developed and coordinated by the University of Genova in collaboration with a network of 13 academic and 15 non-academic organisations.

The aim is to address the political and economic marginalisation of rural communities and the loss of their rich rural cultural and natural heritage in their entire complexity, looking at the process of abandonment from an historical perspective. The CoVid emergency, highlighting the risks associated with population concentration in urban centres, is opening up new opportunities for rural areas. The project will offer the the opportunity to develop PhD research projects in a highly interdisciplinary environment supervised by scholars deeply engaged with the study of rural and mountain areas.

UniGe, the university of Liguria, with campuses in the major cities of the Region and one of the most important of Northern Italy, participates as sole beneficiary. A rich and diversified range of training opportunities will allow to broaden the cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary skills of a new generation of Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) and provide a common ground for their future careers and for new research paths with important implications for sustainable development and environmental and cultural conservation. The University of Genoa is particularly qualified to conduct CLOE Doctoral Programme due to the previous and on-going projects of the involved supervisors. The doctoral programme will make it possible to network existing doctoral schools dealing with subjects related to mountain areas from different perspectives, and willbe the first step in the development of a new Strategic Centre on Mountain and Rural areas (MORA) that will deal with their new centrality

Courses, workshops, seminars and the joint collaborations between supervisors and students will allow to build up the competencies and perspectives to reconstruct, recollect and rethink the links and interconnections between the areas of knowledge around mountains. The focus will be on the diversity and recognition of local practices, habits, and lifestyles, the social and distributive implications of rural-urban migration and environmental risk. The training will be complemented with secondments in a network of other organisations for secondment - including other academic institutions, industry, NGOs and the public sector.

PhD dissertations will allow to scientifically compare different perspectives and procedures to support the possible future planning of rural and mountain areas considering and verifying their social, environmental and cultural effects. Each PhD research will address one of 4 closely related topics:

- mountain and rural areas and heritagisation processes (T1);

- mountain and rural conservation, cultural landscapes and conflicts (T2);

- coming back to the mountains and rural areas (T3);

- mountain and rural areas and environmental risks (T4).

Researches will focus on Liguria Region a perfect "laboratory area": precocious in the depopulation of mountains and the abandonment of agriculture, forestry and husbandry, as well as in the processes of industrialization and deindustrialization. At European level, Liguria is one of the regions with the highest percentage of abandoned rural and mountain areas, the oldest region in Europe and one of the regions with the highest concentration of Natural Parks and well-preserved common-lands.