IGIER Calls on Bocconi Students
Students are the real asset of a university. IGIER, with its faculty members, aims to contribute to enhance this reservoir of talent. "We believe", IGIER director Maristella Botticini says, "that our mission, which is academic research, can be happily married to dedicating time and energy to the students". The success among the students of the IGIER Visiting Students initiative makes the research center to repeat and expand the experiment, launching now the fourth edition of the initiative with a key novelty---the call for candidates and the selection will occur twice, in July 2014 and in January 2015.
Applications are now open until July 18th for those students, who want to become IGIER Visiting Student for the academic year 2014-2015. This first round of the call is open to students who, in September 2014, will be enrolled in the second year of Discipline Economiche e Sociali (DES), or Economic and Social Sciences (ESS), or Finance (the second round of the call in January 2015 will be open to students who, in September 2014, will be enrolled in the first year of the same programs). The selection is based exclusively on merit; all the details are available on the IGIER website.
The Visiting Students will be involved in the center's scientific activities and each of them will be assigned to a mentor (a Bocconi faculty and IGIER member), who will supervise his/her progress.
"Thanks to the IGIER Visiting Students initiative I continuously interacted with the Decision and Game theorists in the Department of Decision Sciences. In addition to strengthening and broadening my academic background, these professors have transmitted their passion and dedication for their research projects and this has in turn made me develop the same profound commitment to study economic theory" says Elia Sartori, who will soon graduate in the Economic and Social Sciences (ESS) track and in September will enroll in the PhD program in Economics at Princeton. "The IGIER Visiting Students initiative has been one of the best experiences of my studies at Bocconi---and the journey of learning here at Bocconi will greatly help me during the PhD program in Economics at Harvard, which I will begin this coming September" adds Matteo Paradisi, who recently earned the MSc degree in Economic and Social Sciences. "The IGIER Visiting Students initiative has been a watershed in my educational path during which I gained an excellent preparation also thanks to the supervision of my IGIER mentors, professors Marco Ottaviani and Roberto Perotti. The initiative asks a lot but also gives back a lot from both a professional and a personal point of view" highlights Umberto Sagliaschi (a DES graduate), who is now a Pricing Analyst at ENI---the Italian gas and electricity company.
"Each of us, in our academic and professional career", the IGIER director concludes, "has met teachers who have made the difference and who have given us a lot. The IGIER Visiting Students Initiative is our way to pass on today's and tomorrow's generation of Bocconi students the positive energy, the passion for studies and the team spirit that we have received from those teachers who we have had the good fortune to meet on our journey".