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Selection and ranking criteria for the DP-PMI Scholarships

The DP-PMI Governing Board will handle the applications and the selection of the candidates for the DP-PMI Scholarships.

The DP-PMI involves a two-stage selection procedure. In the first stage, the Governing Board will select and rank the candidates according to the following criteria (equally weighted):

1. quality of the candidate's scientific record (i.e. potential articles, contributions to conferences, etc.);
2. quality of the candidate's academic record (i.e. marks in the Masters and previous university degrees, quality of the respective institutions and programmes, etc.);
3. motivation letter describing the reasons to join the DP-PMI and potential research plans/directions;
4. relevance and adequacy of the previous training to joining the DP-PMI.

The submitted documentation, including the reference letters, will be used to assess these four criteria. The candidates with the adequate scientific background, presenting the necessary high-quality academic track record and high-level scientific potential, will be invited for the second stage of the selection procedure, consisting of an interview, realized in person or via video-conference, or similar. The objective of this interview if for the Governing Board to evaluate the applicant's fluency in English, as well as to obtain further details on the points 1-4 described above, but specially point 3, and accordingly fine tune the selection of the candidates, whose applications will be ranked taking into account their excellence in each of these criteria.