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Students have time until July 12th to apply for the 20 Visiting positions offered by the research center

During the 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 center to repeat and expand the experiment, launching now the third edition of the IGIER 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 12th for those who want to become IGIER Visiting Students for academic year 2013-2014. To participate in the selection it's necessary to be enrolled in the first or second year of Discipline Economiche e Sociali (Des) or Economics and Social Sciences (Ess), or in the second year only of Finance by September 2013 (students may have any undergraduate degree). 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 center's scientific activities and each of them will be assigned to a mentor (a Bocconi faculty and IGIER member). "The research project that I have carried out with professor Nicola Gennaioli's help", tells Marco Tabellini, enrolled in Ess second year and IGIER Visiting Student during the academic year 2012-2013, "gave me the opportunity to understand how a research project is born, developed, and carried out. 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 MIT in the United States, which I will begin this coming September".

A fundamental step of the Visiting Students' training is the reading group, the occasion for all the students to enhance their skills presenting a paper (either original or published in academic journals) in front of the other students and the IGIER's scholars. "I was very impressed by the skills of the students, who presented in the reading group in the past two years", says Maristella Botticini, IGIER's director. "Coordinating and attending 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 the 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. 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 whom we have had the good fortune to meet on our journey".

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