MILESTONE TWO - The Research Project

Aims of the Research Project Milestone

During the second semester of the first year, Candidates are expected to focus their work and attention on the specific subject that will become their PhD Thesis. They will still follow Doctoral Courses, attend to ABC Research Conferences, other events or activities, in the Department or wherever they can get to the edge of the actual knowledge, following as much as they can their R&T Plan (or negotiating a change with their Supervisors).
Moreover, in the second semester, Candidates are expected to consolidate the choice of their Research Topic, to advance in the understanding of the state of the art about that topic and to choose the field of work to be deepened, to identify a clear Research Question (RQ) and to define how to give an answer to it, writing a Research Project, that will present the Research Methodologies to be adopted and the main steps anmd the resources needed, so that it will be feasible in about two years of work.
It is particular important that the RQ comes in the framework of the State of the Art (SoA). The text of the project is also expected to face the following questions:
In this way, you will  face the question of the impact of your research work and that of your future impact, as research.

Structure and content of the PhD Research Project

A Research Project may be organized in many ways and this is just one of the possible organization of its content.