MILAN, June 4th - UniCredit Foundation has awarded a total of 51 students and researchers, as well as 9 economics departments, who won the foundation's competitions in 2024. The total amount of prizes awarded this year is €2.1 million. The winners are students and researchers in economic and financial disciplines, enrolled in universities and research institutions across the entire UniCredit network.
The competitions launched by the Foundation have a dual purpose. Firstly, to support the specialization abroad of students, enabling them to pursue PhDs at prestigious universities, as in the case of the Crivelli, Marco Fanno, Saccomanni, and Giovannini Scholarships (8 scholarships of €65,000 each, totaling €500,000, for PhDs at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Chicago). Additionally, to pursue a research master's degree, through the Masterscholarships initiative, which with an investment of €300,000, offers 8 scholarships for one-year master's courses abroad at some of the most prestigious European universities: Barcelona School of Economics, London School of Economics, Mannheim University, Oxford University, Sciences Po, Stockholm School of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, and Bocconi University.
Moreover, the Foundation continues to be committed to a significant brain-gain. In 2023, over €800,000 was invested in this direction. This includes competitions directly targeting university departments engaged in attracting talent, such as the Foscolo Europe Top-up Fellowship competition (3 three-year scholarships of €150,000 each), now in its ninth edition, won in 2023 by Bocconi University, LUISS University in Rome, and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Markets - SAFE in Frankfurt. The Marco Fanno Fellowship competition, exclusively for Italian public universities (4 three-year scholarships of €60,000 each), was won in 2023 by the University of Milan, Federico II University of Naples, University of Padua, and University of Verona. This category also includes the Modigliani Research Grant (4 two-year scholarships totaling €80,000) aimed at supporting research projects developed by researchers across Europe.