Director: Prof.ssa Franca Zuccoli

Deputy Director: Prof. Ivan Bargna

The Ph.D. Intangible Heritage in Socio-Cultural Innovation was created with the aim of promoting the diversity of the country system, without losing sight of local specificities. The doctoral students study, research, experiment and deepen the processes of mediation, interpretation and participation that enable the active protection of local heritages, the role of public policies and the problems of governance of intangible heritage at various levels of scale (municipal, regional interregional, national), cooperation between public and private actors, the importance of participatory and inclusive valorisation (with anthropological, artistic, communicative, economic, pedagogical, psychological, sociological, historical perspectives), the challenges of digitisation, the ethical dimension and community involvement.

The Ph.D. Intangible Heritage in Socio-Cultural Innovation involves the realization, over three years, of a research project, under the guidance of a member of the Doctoral College (tutor) and possibly one or more supervisors, including foreigners, who guarantee the quality of the project and guide the PhD student in the constitution of his or her scientific profile, placing him or her in a research group and scientific community consistent with his or her interests. To support the development of the multiple and complex skills now expected from a researcher, the doctoral student is offered a formative curriculum structured in disciplinary courses, seminars, transversal courses offered by the doctoral school, seminars and monitoring meetings, and intermediate and final evaluation moments for each year of the course. In addition to the courses, the doctoral student is required to actively participate in the scientific, cultural and educational life of the Departments, regular meetings with the mentor/supervisor and the coordination group, and formative assessment activities aimed at ensuring the quality and progress of the research project. Attendance at curricular courses organized by the doctoral program is mandatory as indicated in the teaching plan. Attendance at cross-curricular courses provided by the Doctoral School, as indicated in the teaching plan, is also mandatory. Courses delivered as part of disciplinary teaching will be delivered in Italian or English.

The didactic-training proposal for the Doctorate Intangible Heritage in Socio-Cultural Innovation includes the following Modules: Culture as Intangible Heritage, Participatory Approaches to Intangible Heritage, Methodological Issues in Heritage Research, Digital Futures for Intangible Heritage, Research Fields and Working Experiences, as indicated in the 38th cycle Teaching Plan. To obtain the PHD title, all student are required to attend the following mandatory courses offered by the Phd Program. It should be noted that the doctoral school requires the acquisition of at least 3 CFU among the interdisciplinary courses as indicated on the website: https://www.unimib.it/didattica/dottorato-ricerca/scuola-dottorato/corsi-interdisciplinari.

All the courses will take place in presence.

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