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Call for Erasmus + traineeships
The Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa, in collaboration with the Centro Interuniversitario di documentazione sul Pensiero Economico Italiano (CIPEI) (https://cipei.unipi.it/), offers three traineeships of 4 to 6 months each to master’s students or young graduates from European universities within the framework of the Erasmus+ Traineeship Programme, and of the LEXECON research programme of the University of Pisa.
The traineeships are aimed at the creation of a bibliographical database and a specialised corpus of digital texts on economics published between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, composed in one of the following languages:
– Italian;
– English;
– French;
– German;
– Spanish;
– Portuguese.
Trainees will experience a lively multidisciplinary atmosphere of research, combining economics, history and linguistics. Under the guidance of the Department’s researchers, they will follow the whole chain of construction of a digital corpus of texts and learn the computer-assisted techniques of:
- production of a bibliographic record and its metadata;
- processing of annotated digital texts: scanning, OCR recognition, error cleaning, mark-up and linguistic annotation;
- linguistic analysis of texts.
Although the activities focus on economic texts, the skills acquired are transferable to all humanities and social sciences.
We encourage applications from master’s students and young graduates in:
- linguistics;
- European literatures;
- humanities (history, philosophy, anthropology, digital humanities);
- economic sciences;
- political and social sciences;
- computer science;
The traineeships will take place at the CIPEI premises (Department of Economics and Management, Via Cosimo Ridolfi 10, Pisa), but during the emergency period related to the Covid-19 pandemic they can also be carried out at distance.
Internship languages:
- English or Italian (at least B1) for communication;
- Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (at least C1) for research-related activities.
Further information on the traineeship programme can be requested to:
Internship languages:
- English or Italian (at least B1) for communication;
- Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (at least C1) for research-related activities.
Further information on the traineeship programme can be requested to:
Professor Marco E.L. Guidi marco.guidi@unipi.it