IGIER Calls on Bocconi Students!
In academic year 2011-2012, IGIER launched an innovative experiment: drawing Bocconi students nearer to the world of research. The success of the initiative has persuaded the research centre to repeat and expand the experiment, launching the second edition of the Visiting Students Initiative. Thinking in an analytical way, discovering the meaning of doing research, learning how a project is developed, learning to present your own ideas in a clear and rigorous way: these are the main goals of the program which is articulated on the 'building blocks' described on the web site.
Applications are open until July 16th for those who want to become IGIER Visiting Students for academic year 2012-2013. To participate in the selection it's necessary to be enrolled in the first or second year of Discipline Economiche e Sociali (Des), Economics and Social Sciences (Ess) or Finance by September 2012. The selection is based exclusively on merit; all the details are available on IGIER web site.
The 20 selected students will be actively involved in the centre's scientific activities and each of them will be assigned to a mentor (a Bocconi teacher and IGIER member), who will constantly follow his improvements. "The research project that I have carried out with professor Fabio Maccheroni's help", tells Giulia Brancaccio, enrolled in Des second year and IGIER Visiting Student for academic year 2011-2012, "has proved to be very useful for the writing of my thesis, because it gave me the opportunity to understand how a research project is born, developed and concluded".
Fundamental step of the Visiting Students' training is the reading group, the occasion for all the students to try their skills presenting a paper (either original or published in academic journals) in front of the other students and IGIER's teachers. "I was very impressed by the skills of the students who presented in this year reading group", says Maristella Botticini, IGIER's director. "To follow these presentations has been one of the best experiences I have had since I have taught in Bocconi".
Students are the real asset of a university: IGIER, with its scholars, aims to contribute to enhance this reservoir of talent. "We believe", says Maristella Botticini, "that our mission, which is academic research, is happily married to dedicating time and energy to Bocconi students". "Each of us, in our academic and professional career", she adds, "has met teachers who have made the difference and who have given us a lot. 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".
Giulia, who's about to leave for Princeton University for a PhD, says that her experience as IGIER Visiting Student has been fundamental to clarify her ideas about her future: "To have a professor at your disposal to guide and advise you is a unique opportunity; you learn something that will always be with you".
Applications should be submitted electronically through this online form.