The University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia) is an elite public higher education and research institution with special statute located in the historic university town of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. Operating from the 12th-century Palazzo del Broletto, IUSS functions on a collegiate model parallel to the University of Pavia and the University of Milan. The school offers concurrent honors training for undergraduate and master merit scholars (Corsi Ordinari), specialized inter-university international master’s degrees (such as Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation / CivRisk with the EUCENTRE shake-table facilities), and rigorous doctoral curricula. IUSS is the nationwide headquarters and coordinator of the Italian National Ph.D. in Sustainable Development and Climate Change (PhD SDC). Admitted students enjoy free tuition (€0), full collegiate room and board scholarships, and ministerial research stipends in an intimate, interdisciplinary environment.