The Scientific Committee of UniCredit Foundation has selected the Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) as one of the three winners of the 8th Foscolo Europe Top-Up Fellowship competition, together with the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna and the Department of Economics of the University of Mannheim.

This year contest offered three 3-year top-up fellowships in economic and financial subjects to be assigned to the 3 best departments or research institutes in Economics or Finance participating to the PhD job markets in 2022/23.

Main objective of this competition is to attract and retain in Europe outstanding PhD graduates that might otherwise choose to begin and develop their career overseas.

The competition was open to all departments in Economics or Finance from any university or research institute of the 13 countries where UniCredit operates which participate to the job markets in 2022/2023 in order to offer a tenure track position or post-doc position to outstanding job market candidates.