Coordinator: Santa Chiara Graduate School for Ph.D. & Postgraduate Students (UNIVERSITY OF SIENA)
Santa Chiara, High School for PhD and Postgraduate Studies in University of Siena, is a high qualification pole for post-graduate courses and especially for Phd. It was set up by Education Ministry in 2004, after a 5 years experimentation. A Scientific Committee of external experts recognized PhD Schoolsbelonging to Santa Chiara as excellent, according to their degree of internationalization and their research and educational activities. Grouped around the School, there is a scientific community of professors and students from University of Siena and anywhere in the world. The Graduate School is engaged into Multidisciplinary Programmes (Pro.M.)submitted at least by three PhD Schools; it also calls for Visiting Chair in emerging and cross-field disciplines, thus favouring a more flexible work both in research and scientific education. Santa Chiara organizes common courses for PhD students as well as fostering international exchanges. School fellows both contribute to educational activities held by the PhD teaching staff and help students in their research. The Graduate School is endowed with two residences: Collegio Santa Chiara and the Refugio, both placed in the city centre, conceived to accommodate PhD students at the University of Siena, visiting research students from different Universities, chair professors, and School’s fellows. The role of Santa Chiara High School is to coordinate the scientific research and plan the academic actions such as seminars, proM, Chair, within the project.
The goal of Santa Chiara High School for PhD is to foster academic excellence through development of projects that meet national and international standards, enhancing the knowledge processes, through the exchange and collaboration of the different organizations.
Institutional aims of Santa Chiara are the promotion of the multidisciplinary, the education and mobility of research fellows and cooperation within the guiding principle of European Space of Knowledge. The project comes from the initiative of some theatrical artists and PhD students of the Graduate School in Interpretation, Anthropology-Ethnology-Cultural Studies; Logos and Representation; Computer Sciences, Mathematical Logics and Cognitive Sciences.
Co-organizzatore: Municipality of Siena, Council for Culture
The Municipality of Siena is always concerned with the conservation of its huge worldwide known artistic and cultural heritage, but it is also involved in the production and promotion of new forms of expression in contemporary art. Among the plenty of its cultural activities, lots of them are dedicated to the performing arts, music and theatre: music festivals as “Città Aromatica”, “Musica Siena”, “Siena Jazz Festival”, theatre and dance for kids “Teatro Ragazzi”, Theathrical and dance season at Teatro dei Rozzi, Voci di Fonte. The Municipality also supports Siena Teatri OPT, and all the activities (shows, workshops, and production) and events at Casa del Teatro Lia Lapini.
Siena Municipality holds the Museo Civico (medieval art permanent collection and the famous frescoes by Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti) and participates in the administration of the most important town museums as Santa Maria della Scala, one of the most relevant Italian institution in the field of art conservation with its permanent collection of ancient, modern and contemporary art and exhibition production.The Municipality of Siena supports the research theatre and innovation in performing arts languages in the town. For this reason it’s responsible for:
- production of the play “Emigranci”
- coordination to the theatrical technical planning
- support to the organisation ProM and Chair in Siena
- support to the organization of the final exhibition
- dissemination in the country
