MISSION 6 – PhD programs
The PhD mission is a crucial mission for every PNRR action, the terminology of which within the Union European, not surprisingly, explicitly refers to the Next Generation EU.
The PhD mission guides young graduates to undertake a career based on innovation in the themes considered by the Partnership, in this case in the broad sense of Telecommunications, including all disciplines connected to telecommunications and which are typical of Information Engineering and beyond.
In this sense the “products” of the PhD missions are destined to last for the entire working life of the young people who will be recruited, imagining, in light of the recent data available, that without this type of Partnership very few of them would have chosen or had the possibility of choosing a path oriented towards telecommunications.
The PhD mission is therefore divided into 4 fundamental actions: Recruitment, Cohesion in Research, Shared training, target perspectives.

To improve the class of doctoral students, it was decided not to immediately announce all the positions foreseen in RESTART. This is also because many positions had been banned in the XXXVIII cycle both in ordinary hiring and in hiring linked to other measures of the PNRR such as those envisaged for the year 2022 by DDMMs 351 and 352.
Since the PhD positions all last three years, the postponement of the PhD recruitment required strong co-financing support from the Universities linked to the 10 months of the XXXIX cycle that exceed the deadline for completing the RESTART.
The recruitment action is currently incomplete and, especially in the South, needs to be carefully verified with the results of the selections scheduled for the XXXIX cycle. This action must take into account the possibility of new registration provided for by DDMM 117 and 118 of 2023 and 629 and 630 of 2024. The joint use of PE and Ministerial Decree 117 is presented in Ministerial Decree 117, but did not appear feasible for the PE. These points are currently being studied in some CRUI round tables in which the PhD Mission responsible for RESTART regularly participates.
The action proceeds regularly with doctoral students already enrolled.
- The first intervention concerns the support to Doctoral Schools with a long tradition in the field of Telecommunications and related subjects. In the support, actions are planned for the dissemination of information to doctoral students and actions to organize their participation.
- The second intervention concerns the organization of completely innovative doctoral schools. The titles of RESTART's Structural Projects are adopted as starting titles for the Schools. The organization of the Schools is entrusted to the Spoke that hosts the original Structural Project.
DashBoard: DoctorAl ScHools BOARD
| University | Title | Spokes | Partners | Cascade Calls Partners | Organizer / Chairperson | Location | School Dates | Short Description | Link | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Università di Padova | PhD Summer School of Information Engineering - SSIE 2025 | Spoke 1 | UniPD | Marco Giordani | Brixen (Italy) | July 7-11, 2025 | The program will feature seminars related to the new frontiers of machine learning in the fields of information engineering and security, and its applications (including cybersecurity and forensics, energy efficiency, signal analysis, and industrial applications). | https://ssie.dei.unipd.it | ||
| Università di Padova | Winter School on Underwater Network Simulation 2025 | UniPD | Michele Zorzi & Filippo Campagnaro | Padova | February 10-14, 2025 | The school includes a theoretical part where the students will attend classes on the concepts and procedures to perform network simulations and develop software modules, and an experimental part, that will be focused on the implementation of the code, on running simulation experiments, and on analyzing the results. | https://www.subseapulse.com/unwis/ | |||
| Università di Padova | Winter School on Underwater Network Simulation 2024 | UniPD | Michele Zorzi & Filippo Campagnaro | Padova | Jan. 29-Feb. 2, 2024 | It focuses on the DESERT Underwater network simulation and experimentation framework | https://desert-underwater.dei.unipd.it/index.php/winter-school/ | |||
| Università di Padova | PhD Summer School of Information Engineering - SSIE 2024 | Spoke 1 | UniPD | Marco Giordani | Brixen (Italy) | July 2024 | SSIE 2024, co-organized by the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova and the IEEE Italy Section. SSIE 2024 covers very timely and cutting edge research areas within the broad ICT domain. | https://ssie.dei.unipd.it/ | ||
| Università di Padova | Summer school on Complex networks and telecommunications | UniPD | Como (Italy) | July 3-7, 2023 | The goal of the School is to expose the young researcher (mainly Ph.D. students, but also undergraduate students and Post-Docs) to some of the latest results as well as research trends covering the evolution of networking technologies. The target number of participants is 40. | https://lakecomoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CNTC.pdf | ||||
| Università di Padova | PhD Summer School of Information Engineering - SSIE 2023 | Spoke 1 | UniPD | Marco Giordani | Brixen (Italy) | July 10-14, 2023 | The school takes place from July 10th to July 14th 2023 in Brixen, Italy. It will be a single-track Ph.D. school with a focus on modern machine learning and optimization (theory and algorithms). The program consists of 12 talks given by leading researchers in Telecommunications and one workshop where Ph.D. can present their research projects and results. | https://ssie.dei.unipd.it/ | ||
| Università di Bologna | Advanced Topics in 5G-6G RAN for Industrial IoT | Spoke 5 | UniCT, UniBo, TIM | UniFe, AC2 | Enrico Buracchini, Telecom Italia; Daniela Panno, Roberto Verdone. | Catania (Italy) | July 7–10, 2025 | The PhD Summer School focuses on 5G/6G solutions for Industrial IoT (IIoT), with a particular emphasis on radio access networks (RAN). Participants will learn from top academic and industry experts, exploring the challenges and opportunities of advanced communication technologies in industrial environments. | https://sites.google.com/view/in-phdsummerschool/home | S9 |
| Università di Catania | Advanced Topics in 5G-6G RAN for Industrial IoT | Spoke 5 | UniCT, UniBo, TIM | UniFe, AC2 | Enrico Buracchini, Telecom Italia; Daniela Panno, Roberto Verdone. | Catania (Italy) | July 7–10, 2026 | The PhD Summer School focuses on 5G/6G solutions for Industrial IoT (IIoT), with a particular emphasis on radio access networks (RAN). Participants will learn from top academic and industry experts, exploring the challenges and opportunities of advanced communication technologies in industrial environments. | https://sites.google.com/view/in-phdsummerschool/home | S9 |
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DashCam: DoctorAl ScHools Cumulative ArrangeMent tool
| Title | Organiser | Event | Location | School Dates | Reference Person | RESTART support | Link to participate | Training hours (H) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop on Sustainable AI in/for Green Networking (SAYGreeN 2026) | SAYGreeN CFP, Polytechnic University of Turin | PerCom 2026 | Pisa | 2026-03-16 – 2026-03-20 | Daniela Renga | https://saygreen2026.polito.it/ | |||
| RESTART Final Plenary Dissemination Event: “Shaping Horizons In Future Telecommunications” | Plenary Workshop | Roma | 2026-01-12 – 2026-01-19 | RESTART Main Event | https://fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/10/02/shaping-horizons-in-future-telecommunications-a-restart-dissemination-event-19-21-gennaio-2026-roma/ | ||||
| Dissemination and Exploitation Workshops | Workshop | Pisa | 20/11/2025 | https://fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/09/22/restart-spokes-il-calendario-di-tutti-i-dissemination-and-exploitation-workshops/ | |||||
| TRAIN (Transport Architectures for Intelligent Networks) | Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Bologna | CNSM | Bologna | 2025-10-27 – 2025-10-31 | Emilio Paolini, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Gianluca Davoli | co-sponsored by RESTART and SMARTY | https://sites.google.com/view/train-cnsm-2025 | ||
| Disseminarion and exploitation workshop | Polytechnic University of Turin | Workshop | Torino | 30/10/2025 | Carla Chiasserini, Fulvio Risso, Enrico Magli | RESTART Main Event | https://fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/09/22/restart-spokes-il-calendario-di-tutti-i-dissemination-and-exploitation-workshops/ | ||
| 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for_x000D_ Biomedical Data (AIBio) 2025 | FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence RESEARCH, Univesity Of Naples Federico II, RESTART | Workshop | Bologna | 2025-10-25 – 2025-10-26 | Cristian Tommasino | co-organized by RESTART | https://wsaibio.github.io/ecai2025/ | ||
| 3° Tech Camp RESTART su 5G e Open RAN | Università di Palermo/CNIT | Tech Camp | Palermo | 2025-10-15 – 2025-10-17 | Antonio Capone, Giuseppe Bianchi | Main RESTART Event | https://5g-tech-camp.fondazione-restart.it/#registration | 25 | |
| NextComm | Federico II, CESMA, Deloitte | Mentorship | Napoli | 2025-10-09 – 2025-10-30 | Daniele Riccio | RESTART Main Event | https://fondazione-restart.it/2025/09/26/nextcomm-the-restart-acceleration-program-is-now-out/ | 56 | |
| Bridging the future through terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks and services | Polytechnic University of Bari | Workshop | Bari | 08/10/2025 | Luigi Alfredo Grieco, | RESTART Main Event | https://fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/09/22/restart-spokes-il-calendario-di-tutti-i-dissemination-and-exploitation-workshops/ | 4 | |
| Rome Future Week | Open Fiber | Workshop | Roma | 19/09/2025 | Giuseppe Gola | co-organized by RESTART | https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/rome-future-week-open-fiber-punta-sulla-ricerca-con-re-thinking-innovation/ | 4 | |
| Orizzonte 2030: l’Italia tra 5G e 6G | CNIT/WiLab | Summit | Bologna | 17/09/2025 | Nicola Blefari | co-organized by RESTART | https://sites.google.com/view/intercem5g/ | 10 | |
| RESTART Plenary Dissemination Workshop | University of Naples Federico II | Plenary Workshop | Naples | 2025-06-30 – 2025-07-02 | Daniele Riccio | Main RESTART Event | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/2025/05/15/restart-plenary-dissemination-workshop-napoli-30-june-2-july-2025/ | 18 | |
| Workshop ENS – Edge Network Softwarization | IEEE NetSoft | International Workshop | Budapest | 2025-06-23 – 2025-06-27 | — | co-sponsored by RESTART | https://sites.google.com/view/ens2024/home | 4 | |
| Innovation to lead the Future – RESTART Plenary Dissemination Workshop | University of Palermo | Plenary Workshop | Palermo | 2025-01-30 – 2025-01-31 | Ilenia Tinnirello | Main RESTART Event | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/2024/11/29/innovation-to-lead-the-future-restart-plenary-dissemination-workshop-palermo-30-31-january-2025/ | 15 | |
| 3° Workshop Soft Skills | WiLab / RESTART | Workshop | Bologna | 2025-01-20 – 2025-01-21 | Roberto Verdone | Mission 5 – Education & Training (S24E) | https://wilab.cnit.it/3o-workshop-restart-sulle-soft-skills/ | 14 | |
| Management of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial network infrastructures | Polytechnic University of Bari | Short Master | Bari | 2024 | Giuseppe Piro | Spoke 2 – Master's in Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks | https://www.poliba.it/sites/default/files/master/bando_short_master_management_network_infrastructures.pdf | 100 | |
| 2° Workshop Soft Skills | WiLab / RESTART | Workshop | Bologna | 2024-11-19 – 2024-11-20 | Roberto Verdone | Mission 5 – Education & Training (S24E) | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/2024/09/24/2nd-restart-workshop-on-soft-skills-for-university-professors-and-researchers-bologna-november-19-20-2024/#:~:text=For%20this%20reason%2C%20the%202nd,20%20Via%20Paolo%20Nanni%20Costa. | 14 | |
| Net4Future – Workshop sulla visione delle TLC italiane nel 2050 | skopìa | Workshop | Bologna | 2024-11-05 – 2024-11-06 | Ilenia Tinnirello | RESTART S14 – Net4Future | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2024/11/11/net4future-un-workshop-per-pensare-a-come-sara-il-futuro-delle-telecomunicazioni-in-italia-nel-2050/ | 8 | |
| Future Optical Network Architecture and Photonic Technologies for the Internet | IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2024 | International Workshop | Rome | 2024-09-10 – 2024-09-14 | Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) | headlined by RESTART | https://2024.ieee-ipc.org/ | 2 | |
| 2° Tech Camp RESTART su 5G e Open RAN | Polytechnic University of Milan / CNIT | Tech Camp | Milan | 2024-09-09 – 2024-09-12 | Antonio Capone, Giuseppe Bianchi | Main RESTART Event | https://www.deib.polimi.it/ita/eventi/dettagli/3003#:~:text=La%20seconda%20edizione%20del%20RESTART,di%20Milano%20nell'aula%205.02. | 25 | |
| NetAccel-AI 2024 – Data-Plane & Edge Network Acceleration | HPSR 2024 / IEEE | International Workshop | Pisa | 2024-07-22 – 2024-07-24 | Guido Maier | Patronage of RESTART - WatchEDGE Focused Project. | https://hpsr2024.ieee-hpsr.org/program | 25 | |
| Plenary Dissemination Workshop “How will the future look like?” | University of Catania | Plenary Workshop | Catania | 2024-07-04 – 2024-07-05 | Sergio Palazzo | Main RESTART Event | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2024/06/04/restart-plenary-dissemination-workshop-4-5-luglio-catania/ | 18 | |
| 1° Workshop Soft Skills | WiLab / RESTART | Workshop | Bologna | 2024-06-25 – 2024-06-26 | Roberto Verdone | Mission 5 – Education & Training (S24E) | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/2024/02/27/1st-restart-workshop-on-soft-skills-for-university-professors-and-researchers-the-art-of-public-speaking/ | 14 | |
| 3rd Workshop ENS – Edge Network Softwarization | IEEE NetSoft 2024 | Workshop | St. Louis, USA | 2024-06-24 – 2024-06-28 | Adele Del Bello, Lorenzo Santilli, Roberto Sabella | co-sponsored by RESTART | https://sites.google.com/view/ens2024/home | 4 | |
| Net4Future – Workshop per una società sostenibile | Open Fiber + academic partners | Workshop | Rome (Open Fiber HQ) | 2024-06-18 – 2024-06-19 | Francesca Parasecolo; Francesco Carpentieri; Sabino Titomanlio; Fabrizio Gradassi; Sara Mazzarella | Open fiber | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2024/06/20/il-workshop-di-net4future-il-futuro-delle-telecomunicazioni-per-una-societa-sostenibile-e-inclusiva/ | 18 | |
| 1° Tech Camp RESTART su 5G e Open RAN | Sapienza,_x000D_ University of Rome_x000D_ Italy | Tech Camp | Roma | 2023-09-13 – 2023-09-15 | Giuseppe Bianchi | Main RESTART Event | https://5g-tech-camp.fondazione-restart.it/past-editions/2023.html | 25 | |
| The Third International Workshop on the Integration between Distributed Machine Learning and the Internet of Things (AIoT) | — | International Workshop | Houston, TX, USA | 30/10/2025 | Fabio Busacca | Main RESTART Event | https://www.aiot-workshop.xyz/3rd-edition-2025 | 8 | |
| Trasferire innovazione nelle TLC: il vantaggio delle PMI per la crescita del Paese | RESTART Event – in collaboration with ANFoV and Il Quadrato della Radio | Workshop | Hilton Turin Centre | 10/10/2025 | Roberto Sabella | RESTART Main Event | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/07/22/trasferire-innovazione-nelle-tlc-il-vantaggio-delle-pmi-per-la-crescita-del-paese-10-ottobre-2025-hotel-hilton-torino/ | 8 | |
| 2° Industrial Dissemination Workshop on Programmable Networks (IDWPN 2025) | Sapienza University, COMMON NET, ADROIT-6G | Workshop | Roma | 25/09/2025 | Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Gabriele Elia, Marco Polverini e Stefano Salsano | RESTART Main Event | https://fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/10/03/a-roma-il-2-workshop-del-progetto-super-sulle-reti-programmabili-confronto-su-ai-e-automazione/ | 8 | |
| RESTART Startup showcase Programma di Mentorship dello Spoke 4 | Polytechnic University of Turin | Mentorship | Turin | 2025-09-14 – 2025-09-16 | Carla Chiasserini | Main RESTART Event in collaboration with Plug and Play Tech Center | https://fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/09/17/startup-showcase-dello-spoke-4-di-restart-24-progetti-per-la-transizione-digitale-nelle-telecomunicazioni/ | 18 | |
| Workshop 'The path towards 6G' | IEEE | International Workshop | Montreal, Canada | 12/06/2025 | — | co-sponsored by RESTART | https://towards6g.disi.unitn.it/ | 8 | |
| The Italian National Initiative on 6G: the achievements in the RESTART program | 6G SNS | Webnair | Online | 22/05/2025 | Antonio Capone | headlined by RESTART | https://smart-networks.europa.eu/event/the-italian-national-initiative-on-6g-the-achievements-in-the-restart-program/ | 2 | |
| Programma di Mentorship e Imprenditorialità | Polytechnic University of Turin | Mentorship | Turin | 08/04/2025 | Carla Chiasserini | Main RESTART Event in collaboration with Plug and Play Tech Center | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/02/04/restart-spoke-4-call-for-ideas-2/ | 4 | |
| Industrial Dissemination Workshop (AI & Reti) | SUPER – PoliTo, TIM, Tor Vergata | Workshop | Rome | 07/04/2025 | Carla Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino), Gabriele Elia (TIM) e Stefano Salsano (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) | Main RESTART Event with TIM | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/04/02/super-organizza-un-industrial-dissemination-workshop-on-ai-and-programmable-networks-7-aprile-2025-roma/ | 4 | |
| Industrial dissemination workshop on AI and Programmable Networks | SUPER, COMMONET | Workshop | Roma | 07/04/2025 | Carla Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino), Gabriele Elia (TIM) e Stefano Salsano (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) | Main RESTART Event | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2025/04/02/super-organizza-un-industrial-dissemination-workshop-on-ai-and-programmable-networks-7-aprile-2025-roma/ | 4 | |
| The Second International Workshop on the Integration between Distributed Machine Learning and the Internet of Things (AIoT) | — | International Workshop | Athens, Greece | 14/10/2024 | Antonio Capone | Main RESTART Event | https://www.aiot-workshop.xyz/2nd-edition-2024 | 8 | |
| Tech Camp on Future Visions | Polytechnic University of Milan | Tech Camp | Milan | 02/10/2024 | Ilenia Tinnirello. | Project S14 – Net4Future | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/2024/10/07/a-tech-camp-to-predict-what-the-future-scenarios-of-telecommunications-will-look-like/ | 8 | |
| Workshop di Disseminazione SUPER | SUPER, University of Bologna | Workshop | Bologna | 10/09/2024 | Roberto Verdone | Main RESTART Event | https://www.fondazione-restart.it/it/2024/09/24/super-un-nuovo-workshop-di-disseminazione-presso-luniversita-di-bologna/ | 4 | |
| Open Network Intelligence_x000D_ for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles_x000D_ (ONI-CAV) Workshop | University of Catania, PoliMi, PoliTo | Workshop | Catania | 03/07/2024 | Francesco Linsalata, Marco Rapelli, Laura Galluccio | Main RESTART Event | https://oni-cav.fondazione-restart.it/ | 10 | |
| PNRR Live – Workshop RESTART | — | Workshop online | Online | 06/05/2024 | Adele Del Bello, Lorenzo Santilli, Roberto Sabella | “PNRR Live” Series – Research Exchange | https://www.borsadellaricerca.it/calendario/06-05-2024/pnrr-live-con-restart/ | 1 | |
| Intelligent IoT and Networks for 6G | WiLab – Huawei JIC – RESTART | Workshop | Rome (Centro Congressi Cavour) | 15/04/2024 | Roberto Verdone | Open Collaborative Event | https://wilab.cnit.it/joint-wilab-huawei-jic-and-restart-workshop/ | 5 | |
| The Frist International Workshop on the Integration between Distributed Machine Learning and the Internet of Things (AIoT) | Univeristà di Catania | International Workshop | Catania | 23/10/2023 | Giacomo Morabito | Main RESTART Event | https://www.aiot-workshop.xyz/1st-edition-2023 | 8 |
The clear perspective of placement in the company is a fundamental element for the success of the M4C2 mission and requires a particular commitment of the firm component in RESTART.
The enrolment of PhD students linked to the XL cycle is in the process of starting. However, it is highly likely that some PhD students interested in RESTART may opt for other funding actions (academic grants, DDMM 629 630) for their PhD cycle. The final data will be evaluated in November with the completion of the recruitment of doctoral students.
Cohesion in research
This action was launched by placing all PhD students in the structural and targeted research projects envisaged by RESTART. The action proceeds regularly with the PhD students already enrolled.
Shared training
This action is being implemented. It will have a complete development after the selection of the XL cycle, when the team of PhD students will be complete. A new action based on the direct involvement of enterprises in RESTART has been proposed. It has been included in a new framework of actions that will be called LIFE (Learning Improved by Firms Experience). The action is made up of events. Each event will be based on a theme proposed by one of RESTART's companies. It will last about 2 hours and will be organized in collaboration with companies.
- 1 hour - A lecture
- 15 minutes - Presentation of a company
- 15 minutes - short presentations (5 minutes each) of PhDs in RESTART
- 30 minutes - Round table on the topic
Destination perspectives
This is the main action that will characterise the final phase of the programme.
