The University of Bologna is pleased to offer the 33rd cycle of a PhD Scholarship programme for academic year 2017/2018. The University of Bologna, founded in 1088, was the first university and is the oldest in the world. It was the first place of study to use the term university for the corporations of students and masters which came to define the institution, located in Bologna, Italy. The PhD programmes will have a duration of three years, with the exception of the PhD programmes in “Data Science and Computation” and in “Management”, which will have a duration of four years.