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IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italian: Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca) is a public research institution and a graduate school located in Lucca, Italy. It was founded in 2005 under the name of IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, where the acronym IMT stands for "Institutions, Markets, Technologies”. The School is part of the Italian superior graduate school system and its main Campus is located in the San Francesco Complex within the historic city walls of Lucca.

As an institution for advanced studies, IMT School hosts researchers who carry out methodological research, held to high scientific standards, leading to the development of new knowledge.

Its international advisory board includes a number of prominent scientists, including Giulio Tononi, Alfio Quarteroni and Adina L. Roskies.

History

The desire of Lucca to have its own university dates back to 1369, when Emperor Charles IV gave an official dispensation to the Republic of Lucca to establish a "Studium Generale" in the city. In 1387 this concession was countersigned and confirmed by Pope Urban VI, yet despite these attempts, the university never succeeded and eventually failed. A second attempt to establish a University of Lucca was made in 1785 and was slightly more successful offering courses in Law, Medicine, Mathematics, Engineering and Philosophy. This university was reformed during the Duchy of Maria Luisa of Spain, where it became the "Real Liceo" however the history of the Real Liceo was interrupted in 1847, following the incorporation of the Duchy of Lucca into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1847, disappearing definitively in 1867 shortly before the completion of the Risorgimento. IMT School thus represents the third attempt to found a university in Lucca.

Academics

The multidisciplinary PhD programs of IMT School, integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. It offers a characteristic patrimony of competences within the broad framework of the analysis and management of a plurality of systems. Originally envisaged as three-year programmes, since 2019 the programmes are articulated in curricula of four years. The 4 curricula currently offered are field-specific, although in many instances they share a common scientific background. Candidates can apply for one (or more) of the following curricula:

Economics, Management Science and Complex Systems

Computer Science and System Engineering

Neuroscience

Cultural Heritage

IMT School concentrates its activities within a limited number of key areas. Moreover, the School recruits its faculty on a competitive international scale, evaluating, among other elements, their capacity to publish work in top level international peer-reviewed and high-impact journals.

The IMT School also offers a master degree in Bionic Engineering, in collaboration with University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, a doctoral program in Data Science together with Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, University of Pisa and the National Research Council-CNR. The School offers also a Master Program in Data Science and Statistical Learning, together with the Florence Center for Data Science (University of Florence).

Moreover, during the academic year the school organizes seminars, workshops, summer and winter schools.

Research

IMT School scientific activity is organized in thematic research units that carry out interdisciplinary projects. Currently, the research units of the School are:

AXES - Laboratory for the Analysis of Complex Economic Systems

DYSCO - Dynamical Systems, Control, and Optimization

LYNX - Center for the interdisciplinary Analysis of Images

MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of Materials

NETWORKS - Network Theory, Theory of Modern Statistical Physics, Economic and Financial Systems

MOMILAB - Molecular Mind Laboratory

SysMA - System Modelling and Analysis

The IMT School also houses a research unit of the National Institute of High Mathematics - INdAM, with which it collaborates for the promotion of scientific research and higher education in mathematical disciplines.

Student and Alumni Association

Since 2016 IMT School’s graduates can join the Alumni Association. The association was founded in the aim of fostering relationships between students and alumni and promoting the values of the IMT School in the world. External members can also be admitted for their professional and scientific merits or as financial backers.

Campus and facilities

San Francesco Complex

IMT School residential Campus is located in the San Francesco Complex, a former Franciscan convent built around the 13th century. The building, in its current configuration, was inaugurated in 2013 after an important restoration work accomplished by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca. The modern complex houses the students’ rooms, a guesthouse for external guests, offices of teachers and researchers, classrooms for teaching and the canteen of the IMT School. Some of the old spaces – such as the Church of San Francesco, the Guinigi Chapel and the sacristy of the former Convent – are still used to host events, seminars and meetings.

San Ponziano Complex

The IMT School headquarter is located in the Complex of San Ponziano, a former music conservatory named after the Lucca musician Luigi Boccherini. The Complex houses the administrative offices, a library, two meeting rooms and a multidisciplinary laboratory equipped to carry out cognitive-behavioral experiments.

Library

The IMT School Library is located next to the San Ponziano Complex. The access to the Library, as well as its loan and consultation services, are free not only for professors, researchers and PhD students, but also for the external public. The building has undergone a recent restoration by the architect Stefano Dini, whose project won the Jury Prize at the 2007 European Aluminum Awards.

The University of Salento (Italian: Università del Salento, called until 2007 Università degli Studi di Lecce) is a university located in Lecce, Italy. It was founded in 1955 and is organized in 6 Faculties.

The University of Salento commenced activities in the academic year 1955-56 under the “Salentine University Council”. In 1960, it became the “Free University of Lecce” and passed to Government authority in the 1967/68 academic year.

Since 2005, the University of Salento is a partner of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC).

University of Salento is ranked 251-275 among the top world's university and fifth in Italy, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings released on 2015. In 2018, it was ranked 501-600, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Organization and Programmes

The university is divided into 8 departments, which offer the following programmes:

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies

Department of Cultural Heritage

Department of Economics Sciences

Department of History, Society and Human Studies

Department of Humanities

Department of Innovation Engineering

Department of Juridical Sciences

Department of Mathematics and Physics "Ennio De Giorgi"

Sports, clubs, and traditions

The University Sports Centre houses all the sporting activities that take place for enrolled students at the University of Salento.

All courses are free and taught by qualified and nationally certified instructors including a variety of disciplines, gymnastics, volleyball, basketball, aerobics, funky, tennis, fencing, Latin American dance, swimming, aqua gym, body building, step, and breathing training.

Body building can be found at the “Mario Stasi” sports centre in Via Cuoco, and there are also agreements with local swimming pools.

The CUS takes part annually in the Italian University Games and appears annually on the list of National University Champions demonstrating a high level of participation. In addition to this the CUS Lecce also organises a series of game competitions, with individual end of course tournaments and le Cussiardi.

Also for student members, it's also possible to take part in winter and summer camps with agreements with C.U.S.I. It possible to do alpine ski-ing, ski jumping snowboarding and carving in the following localities, Fai della Pagnella (TN), Folgaria (TN), and Valzodana (BL) while it is possible to do windsurfing, canoeing, and sub- aqua courses in Muravera (CA), Terasini (PA), and San Cristoforo- Lake Caldonazzo (TN)

The University of L'Aquila (Italian: Università degli Studi dell'Aquila) is a public research university located in L'Aquila, central Italy. It was founded in 1964 (its history begins in 1596) and is organized in nine departments. The university presents a scientific-technological character with many research groups. It is best known for its Engineering, Medicine, Psychology and Science schools.

History

On 11 October 1458 and again on 9 May 1464, the city of L'Aquila petitioned King Ferdinand of Aragon to open a Studium equivalent to those in Bologna, Siena and Perugia. Shortly before, the town had withdrawn support for the last of the Angevin and surrendered to the Spanish sovereign. The King granted this request, but there is no documentary evidence to suggest that the city authorities opened the Studium. On the other hand, records do show that both before and after the date of the petition, citizens of L'Aquila (Fra' Giovanni da Capestrano, for example, and Berardino di Ludovico, nephew to the chronicler Francesco d'Angeluccio di Bazzano, who took a degree in 1474) went to study civil and canon law at the Studium in Perugia. During the last years of the late 16th century, from 1596 on, the Jesuits were providing higher instruction at their college in L'Aquila. When, by a decree of 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from the Kingdom, the Aquilanum Collegium became the Collegio Reale. To the chairs of theology, philosophy and history, mathematics, literature and Greek were added, in 1785, those of sciences such as chemistry, anatomy and the theory and practice of medicine, and in 1792 surgery and midwifery. But when, by the decree of 30 May 1807, Joseph Napoleon reorganized all the Royal Colleges, he suppressed the one in L'Aquila and opened one at the Abbey of the Holy Spirit of Morrone, near Sulmona.

Seven years later, on 21 August 1814, a school of higher instruction for the whole Abruzzi area, with university level teaching in medicine, was inaugurated in L'Aquila by Joachim Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and king of Naples. Immediately after the Restoration, by a decree on 14 January 1817, King Ferdinand settled that in L'Aquila, as in Bari, Salerno and Catanzaro, a Reale Liceo be opened, teaching law, anatomy and physiology, surgery and midwifery, chemistry and pharmaceutical studies as well as forensic medicine and various scientific subjects. By a decree of 3 December 1874, the students of the L'Aquila Reale Liceo were recognised as qualified to practise pharmacy, surgery and land-surveying, but degrees were conferred by the University of Naples, upon which the Licei were dependent. As a result of this decree, the number of students attending the school in L'Aquila, which in 1861 had become the Scuola Universitaria di Farmacia, Notariato e Chirurgia minore, dropped considerably.

In 1923 the "University Schools" ceased to exist. It was not until the summer of 1949 that, due to the efforts of Vincenzo Rivera, professor of agricultural science, fellow of the Accademia Italiana, member of the Costituente and several-time member of Parliament, summer courses at university level were started in L'Aquila mainly for the benefit of Abruzzi students enrolled at the University of Rome. The success enjoyed by these courses formed the foundation for a free University of L'Aquila, and, thanks to support from local bodies, on 15 December 1952 teaching was inaugurated at the Istituto Universitario di Magistero. It was also thanks to Rivera that an astronomical observatory was established at Campo Imperatore on the Gran Sasso, at 2200 m above sea level, as well as the observatory and high altitude botanical gardens, the geo-dynamics observatory, the national magnetism observatory and the museum of paleontology.

The creation of an institute of medicine is due to the efforts of Professor Paride Stefanini. In the academic year 1982-83 the Faculties of Education, Medicine, Engineering and Sciences, which had until that time constituted the free University of L'Aquila (established by a decree of the President of the Republic of 18 August 1964), became state institutions. In 1985 the Faculty of Medicine established the first Italian chair of pediatric Otolaryngology. In 1991 the Faculty of Economics was added and in 1993 the Faculty of Education became the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. The late 1990s saw the addition of two new faculties: Educational Sciences in 1996 and Sport Sciences in 1999. In 2005 the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Biotechnologies were established.

Consequences of the 2009 earthquake

The University was badly affected by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, with fifty-five students killed and only two buildings on the university's two out-of-town campuses remaining structurally sound. The new academic year has found the university conducting a full program of reconstruction. The university has rented new buildings for the faculty members who lost their campus space during the earthquake and a new student residence has been created. In addition, many services have been provided to students affected by the earthquake and reconstruction of the damaged university buildings has started.

Organization

These are the 7 departments in which the university is divided into:

Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences

Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics

Department of Human Studies

Department of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences

Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics

Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences

Features

Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore

Orto Botanico dell'Università dell'Aquila

CETEMPS: this Centre of Excellence for the integration of remote sensing techniques and numerical modelling for the early warning of severe meteorological events has the main objective of developing techniques to prevent and predict meteorological phenomena which may lead to flooding and landslides.

DEWS (Design Methodologies of Embedded Controllers). This center is focusing on the use of the advanced electronics. In the 2000s the Centre directed its research towards design, implementation and management of wireless sensor and actuator networks.

Microscopy Centre. This is an inter-departmental service centre of the University of L'Aquila. The main aim is to provide scientific assistance to Departments active in the field of microscopy while also offering service in this area to local, national and international productive, scientific and teaching institutions.

Language Centre. This center offers courses in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and an Italian courses for foreign students.

Sport Center (C.U.S., or Centro Universitario Sportivo). The structure includes a football and rugby field, two fields for football and rugby on 7 and on 5, two tennis courts, one court for volleyball and basketball, one gym structure for fitness, climbing and martial arts. The university has a convention with the municipal swimming pool and the Campo Imperatore ski resort (about 20 km from the city center).

The University of Genoa, known also with the acronym UniGe (Italian: Università di Genova), is one of the largest universities in Italy. It is located in the city of Genoa and regional Metropolitan City of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy. The original university was founded in 1481.

According to Microsoft Academic Search 2016 rankings, the University of Genoa has high-ranking positions among the European universities in multiple computer science fields:

in machine learning and pattern recognition the University of Genoa is the best scientific institution in Italy and is ranked 36th in Europe;

in computer vision the University of Genoa is the best scientific institution in Italy and is ranked 34th in Europe;

in computer graphics the University of Genoa is ranked 2nd institution in Italy and 35th in Europe.

The University of Genoa has a strong collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), since its foundation in 2005.

The University of Genoa is currently setting up a big project for a new Faculty of Engineering within the Erzelli Great Campus science technology park, in the Western side of Genoa. The contracts were signed in October 2018, the final project should be released in 2019, the construction works should start in 2020, and the new faculty should open in 2023.

The university of Genoa since its foundation has delivered 46 Gold medals to the italian students, and 2 gold medals to the International students, specifically to the Israeli student Khor hoksari in 1993, and to the Albanian student Agasi Bledar in 2021, It has delivered 122 honoris titles to its alumni, and has been part of a continuos public opening in the last 20 years.

Campus

The University of Genoa is organized in several independent campuses located in different city areas. Notable buildings are the main University premises (Via Balbi, 5) designed by the architect Bartolomeo Bianco and built in 1640, the new complex in Valletta Puggia, built in the 1980s and 1990s and hosting the Departments of Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics, and the new seat of Facoltà di Economia, realized in 1996 by refurbishing old seaport docks. The University's botanical garden, the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Genova, occupies one hectare in the city center, just above the University's main building.

University of Genoa also has a number of regional campuses in Savona, Imperia, Santa Margherita Ligure, Ventimiglia and La Spezia.

History

Already in the 13th century in Genoa there were Colleges which conferred degrees in law, theology, medicine and arts.

The College of Theology was established officially in 1471 with a Papal Bull of Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere). Some years after dates the promulgation of a Statute of the College of Medicine by the Council of the Elders in 1481.

In 1569, by a decree of the Senate of Republic of Genoa, the Colleges were incorporated into the schools run by the Jesuits. The Jesuits settled near the old Church of San Girolamo Del Rosso, and enlarged their premises by buying some land on which to house their College and schools. The building, which is now the main University premises, was designed by the architect Bartolomeo Bianco, and began to be used in 1640.

After the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, a special Committee reorganized the various courses of study, dividing them in higher education (Canon Law, Philosophy, Civil Law, Theology, Logic and Metaphysics, Physics) and primary education (courses in Rhetoric, Reading and Writing).

After the establishment of the French Empire, which absorbed the Republic of Genoa, higher education was subdivided into different special Schools: Law, Medicine, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Commerce, Language and Literature, Chemistry. The University of Genoa was affiliated to the Imperial University of Paris. It was reinstated as a separate university in 1812.

After the fall of Napoleon, the provisional Government of the Republic appointed a new Committee in charge of higher education, and at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it was decided that the University of Genoa be entrusted to the Kingdom of Sardinia, enjoying the same privileges as those granted to the University of Turin. The university was closed owing to political disturbances between 1821 and 1823 and again between 1830 and 1835.

In 1870, two first technical institutes of higher education were established: the Royal Naval School and the Royal School of Economic Studies, that in 1936 were absorbed by the Royal University of Genoa, becoming the Faculties of Engineering and Economics respectively.

In the late 20th century, the university expanded rapidly, with new regional campuses. In 1996 some departments were established in Savona within a remodeled Army Barrack area. That campus hosts the Department of Engineering and also courses in Business. New laboratories have been made in Simulation, Logistics & Industrial Engineering, among others.

In January 2001, an "Institutional Review of University of Genoa" was given by CRE Institutional Evaluation Programme. This evaluation, surveys taken and reports made, explain The University's current promotion of invitations to outside professorships and student body.

Rankings

In the ranking of Italian universities, the University of Genoa is ranked 13th by ARWU, 18th by QS, and 18th by THE.

The university is ranked 151-200 in Engineering - Civil and Structural in the QS World University Subject Rankings.

Times Higher Education gave the university a rank of 150+ in the Law category in its 2020 list of subjects.

Students

Today the university has a student population of around 40,000, including both undergraduate and graduate students. The University of Genoa shares a branch campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida, United States, in Genoa.The two universities mutually host students of either university's School of Architecture.

Faculty

In 2004 there were about 1,710 professors and scientific employees and about 2000 non-scientific employees working for University of Genoa, making it one of Genoa's biggest employers.

The University of Foggia, located in Foggia, Italy, was founded in 1991 and was fully recognized in 1999. Although it has taken some time for the university to receive its entitlement and acknowledgement, through that timestamp it has branched off from five faculties to six: the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, the Faculty of Medical and Surgical Sciences, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Food and Environment, and the Faculty of the Humanities: Literature, Cultural Heritage, and Educational Sciences. It has also been named as the best university of southern Italy by the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, which has full ownership of the Italian employers' federation.

Departments

The University of Foggia is divided into these six departments:

Department of Law

Department of Economics

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Department of Medical and [Surgical Sciences]

Department of Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Department of Humanities, Literature and Culture Heritage

The University divides departments to aid students into the right department to, as close as possible, match their interests, as well as to avoid confusion.

The Faculty of Agriculture is organized in 3 departments:

The Department of Production, Engineering, Mechanical and Applied Economical Science for Agro-Zootechnical Systems

The Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Chemistry and Plant Protection

The Department of Food Science

The department of Agriculture has expanded from the original small department as enrolments have increased.

International programs

The University itself has agreements with 20 foreign university to accommodate international students, as well as partakes in Socrates/Erasmus, Leonardo and TEMPUS media programs.

Academic calendar

The first semester of the academic calendar for the University of Foggia runs from the third week of September to the second week of December while the second semester runs from the first week of March to the end of May. Classes usually run from Mondays to Fridays, Classes do not run during the month of August as well as on a Bank Holiday. Courses are based on semesters, and within those two semesters there are two holidays around the Christmas and Easter time interval.

Degree system

The degree system is broken down into three sub categories, which are the First-level degrees, the Second-level degrees, and the master's degree, which in Italian is called a "magistrali".

The number of degrees within the main 3 are:

22 First-level Degree

10 Second-Level Degree

3 Master's degrees

Controversies

In November 2018, four academics were fired from the Agrarian Department after their charge of the irregularities in an internal public exam.

ISIA - Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (Higher Institute for Artistic Industries), is the name of four Italian universities, which train students in the field of design. The ISIAs are in Rome, Florence, Faenza and Urbino. They are public institutions under the umbrella of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, AFAM (Artistic and Musical Higher Education, Italian: Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale) division.

The Institutions

Rome

Rome ISIA is Italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design. It was founded in 1965 as Industrial Design and Visual Communication Course for architects and engineers, and changed its name in 1973. It follows the European tradition of the Bauhaus and the Hochschule für Gestaltung of Ulm, grafting their methodologies onto Italian creative culture. Rome ISIA has received many prizes and acknowledgements, and is the only European institution to have won the Compasso D'Oro by Associazione per il Disegno Industriale ADI (Industrial Design Association) twice (1979 and 1987). Rome ISIA is a member of the Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Media and Design.

Rome ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design (180 ECTS-credits), a two-year Master's program in Systems Design (120 ECTS-credits), and a two-year Doctor of Philosophy in Interaction Design. Thirty new students are admitted to the BA and MA programs each year.

Subsidiaries

Rome ISIA has two subsidiaries, in Pescara (since 2009) and Pordenone (since 2011). Both of them offer a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design.

Florence

Florence ISIA was founded in 1975 is a member of the Cumulus as well.

Florence ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design, and two two-year Master's programs: an MA in Product Design and an MA in Communication Design.

Faenza

Faenza ISIA was founded in 1980. The structure of its course was formerly different from the other ISIAs as the experimentation was mainly focused on ceramic products. By the end of the 1990s, its attention moved towards product design in general.

Faenza ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Product Design and Design with Advanced Ceramic Materials, and two two-year Master's programs: an MA in Product Design and Design with Advanced Materials and an MA in Communication Design.

Urbino

Urbino ISIA was founded in 1974 and trains students in the field of graphic and editorial design.

Urbino ISIA offers a three-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Visual Communication, and three two-year Master's programs: an MA in Communication, Design and Publishing and an MA in Illustration and an MA in Photography.

The University of Florence (Italian: Università degli Studi di Firenze, UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has about 60,000 students enrolled.

History

The first university in Florence was the Studium Generale, which was established by the Florentine Republic in 1321. The Studium was recognized by Pope Clement VI in 1349, and authorized to grant regular degrees. The Pope also established that the first Italian faculty of theology would be in Florence. The Studium became an imperial university in 1364, but was moved to Pisa in 1473 when Lorenzo the Magnificent gained control of Florence. Charles VIII moved it back from 1497 to 1515, but it was moved to Pisa again when the Medici family returned to power.

The modern university dates from 1859, when a group of disparate higher-studies institutions grouped together in the Istituto di Studi Pratici e di Perfezionamento, which a year later was recognized as a full-fledged university by the government of newly unified Italy. In 1923, the Istituto was officially denominated as University by the Italian Parliament.

Organization

The 12 schools of the university are: Agriculture; Architecture; Arts; Economics; Education; Engineering; Law; Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences; Medicine and Surgery; Pharmacology; Political Science; and Psychology.

Faculties are located in traditionally strategic areas based on their subject matter. The Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Political Sciences are in the Polo delle Scienze Sociali (campus of social sciences), in the Novoli district, near the new courthouse. The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, the Faculty of Pharmacology, and certain scientific and engineering departments are in the Careggi district, close to the hospital. The Faculty of Engineering is located at the S. Marta Institute, whereas the Faculty of Agriculture is in front of the Parco delle Cascine. The Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences is located in Sesto Fiorentino. The Faculty of Architecture is in the center of the city, as the Accademia di Belle Arti, home of Michelangelo's David. The Faculties of Literature, History, Philosophy, and Pedagogy are in the centre of Florence.

Corporate relations

Florence has vide network of corporate placement opportunities for it's students and recently collaborated internationally with TreeAndHumanKnot a giving first ideology of RisingIndia ThinkTank for international opportunity for it's students.

The University of Catania (Italian: Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a population of over 60,000 students, it is the main university in Sicily.

Departments

Following the Italian higher education reform introduced by the law 240/10 and adopted by the University of Catania in its new Statute, faculties have been deactivated and departments have been reorganized. The University of Catania has now 17 departments, the Faculty of Medicine, and two special didactic units established in the decentralized offices of Ragusa (Modern Languages) and Syracuse (Architecture). that, additionally to the traditional assignments of scientific research, are in charge of the organization and management of educational activities. A special didactic unit is also the school of excellence "Scuola Superiore di Catania", a higher education centre of the University of Catania conceived in 1998 to select the best young minds and offer them a course of studies including analysis, research and experimentation.

History

The university was founded by King Alfonso I of Sicily on 19 October 1434. A charter was granted after two royal councillors (Adamo Asmundo and Battista Platamone) convinced the king to accept the founding of a "Studium Generale" in Catania, with the papal recognition arriving ten years later from Pope Eugene IV (18 April 1444). Alfonso V with this gesture wanted to compensate the city (in which there had been recently established the Royal Court) for moving the Sicilian capital from Catania to Palermo. The activity of the Atheneum actually started a year later, in 1445, with 6 professors and 10 students. The first four faculties were Medicine, Philosophy, Canon and Civil Law and Theology. Lessons were initially held in a building in Piazza del Duomo, next to the Cathedral of Sant'Agata, and eventually moved to the Palazzo dell'Università in the late 1690s. This building remains the office of the rector of the university to this day. The first degree was awarded to Antonio Mantello, from Syracuse, in 1449. During the course of the 16th century, approximately 20-25 degrees were awarded each year. The University (which from the 16th century was referred to as "Siculorum Gymnasium") was named "Studium Generale" because it was the only entity that could release degrees equal to those released in the old Studia of Salamanca, Valladolid, Bologna and this contributed to spread envy in the other Sicilian cities that in culture and traditions didn't feel inferior to Catania. In 1934, the university celebrated its 500th anniversary with King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy, and, in 1984 the 550th one.

In the early centuries of its existence, the university was administered by the comune (municipality) of Catania, overseen by the bishop of Catania and protected by the royal power. But with a reform operated by the viceroy in 1679 the authority of the bishop (who was "Gran Cancelliere" = "Great Chancellor") prevailed: he had the control over the lecturers, the freshmen and students' curriculum. This led to various conflicts between the civil and religious authorities. From 1818 the office of Gran Cancelliere was assigned to the President of the Great Civil Court, instead of the bishop.

List of university scholars historic and famous

Humanities

Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida, important Italian politician and journalist, was elected the first Socialist mayor of Catania in 1902.

Mario Rapisardi, noted Italian poet and translator, taught at the University in the 1870s. "Love truth more than glory, more than peace, more than life. Make it your sword and your shield."

Luigi Capuana, important writer, journalist, literary critic and theorist. He taught literature in the early years of the 20th century.

Giovanni Verga, famed Italian realist writer, author of the Cavalleria Rusticana and I Malavoglia.

Santo Mazzarino, leading 20th-century historian of ancient Rome and Greece.

Vitaliano Brancati, Italian novelist and screenwriter, winner of the 1950 Bagutta Prize.

Elémire Zolla, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian of religion, taught linguistics in the late 1960s.

Sciences

Mario Pieri, mathematician, taught descriptive, projective and higher geometry from 1900 to 1908 and supervised 6 doctoral students with dissertations in algebraic geometry. See The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic, Birkhäuser (E.A. Marchisotto & J.T. Smith (2007) .

Giuseppe Mercalli, inventor of the Mercalli Scale of earthquake intensity, was professor of geology in the late 1880s.

Annibale Ricco, named Chair of Astrophysics in 1890, was the first director of the Catania Observatory. He was also Chancellor of the University from 1898 to 1900. The crater Ricco on the Moon as well as the asteroid 18462 Ricco are named for him.

Guido Fubini, author of Fubini's theorem, was a professor of mathematics in the early years of the 20th century. The asteroid, 22495 Fubini, is named in his honor.

Remo Ruffini, former assistant professor at Princeton University (1971–74), was professor of theoretical physics from 1976 to 1978. He was named Space Scientist of the Year in 1992.

Paolo Maffei, director of the Catania Observatory from 1975 to 1980, was one of the pioneers of infrared astronomy. He discovered 2 galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2 in 1967. A main belt asteroid, 18426 Maffei, is also named for him.

Giuseppe Colombo, physicist and astronomer, NASA consultant and early proponent of tethered satellites. Asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo is named in his honor, as is the Colombo Gap, a 150 km gap in the C ring of the planet Saturn.

Napoleone Ferrara, molecular biologist, winner of the 2010 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, is a 1981 graduate of the Faculty of Medicine.

The University of Molise (Italian: Università degli Studi del Molise), also known as UNIMOL, is an Italian public university located in Campobasso, Italy. It was founded in 1982 by the Law n.590 according to the plan for development and institution of new universities; the campuses of this university are all set in the region of Molise and they are: in Campobasso (Headquarters), Isernia, Pesche and Termoli.

History

In the years 1982-1983 the University opened, but the only faculty was Agricultural Science, then with the opening of the faculties of Economics and especially of Law, the number of students grew. In 1993 new structures were opened in Isernia, including the faculty of Natural Sciences. Later on in Campobasso was opened the Colozza Center, which has improved the quality and organization of the courses becoming nowadays a school for master's degrees in Secondary Education. Since 2000 the University increased the number of students and of courses, establishing in 2006 the faculty of Medicine and Surgery, the youngest faculty of UNIMOL. Moreover, after a notice of competition issued by the University, was created the Scientific and Technological campus, which represents a link between the research and the world of business. Today the University counts about 7,000 students.

Unimol Management Centre

"Unimol Management" provides for high specialising courses in the field of Public and Private Management. Its aims are the promotion and spreading of managerial and entrepreneurial culture in public and private sectors through the development, the organisation and the management of high quality courses.

Colozza Centre

The aim of the specialisation Centre “Colozza” is a specific professional training for prospective High School teachers. The didactical activities include not only mere teachings, but also laboratory activities and traineeships aiming at the integration between theoretic knowledge and practical abilities. The centre offers the following diplomas:

- Curricula: Linguistic – Literary

- Natural Sciences

- Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences

- Economic – Judicial Sciences

- Sport Sciences

The University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) is an international university located in northern Italy. The campus is in Pollenzo, near Bra, a city in the north-west region of Piedmont. Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement, established the university to focus on gastronomic sciences and the organic relationships between food, ecology, and cultures. More than 2,500 students have taken courses at UNISG since it opened in 2004. UNISG offers a variety of courses leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in areas related to gastronomic sciences, food cultures and heritage, food ecologies, and food communications and management. As part of their curriculum, students every year are engaged in a number of field study trips in Italy and also in other European and extra-European countries.

History

Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, established the international university in 2004 to train students for employment in food and tourism industries, food-related government departments, or food-related journalism. UNISG is the only (slow)-food-centred university in the world. The university mission is to foster first-class research and higher education around food with the specific aim of fostering food sustainability and food sovereignty. The university is engaged in projects that build bridges between scientific knowledge and traditional knowledge, protect food biocultural diversity, and foster the complex relationships among gastronomy, biological, agricultural and food/nutritional sciences, and social sciences and humanities. It mirrors the mission of the Slow Food movement—which asserts that an understanding of food involves economics, environmental science, history, biology, and anthropology, as well as aesthetics—and is true to the movement's core principles of "good, clean, and fair".

Petrini chose the Agenzia di Pollenzo, a 19th-century neo-Gothic palace, for the school's campus. The Savoy royal family built the original structure in 1833 as a summer lodge.

A second campus, at Colorno, opened in 2005. It offered master's degrees centered on gastronomic sciences, food culture, and communications. Later in 2011 Colorno's campus was left and the programmes taught there merged with those taught in Pollenzo. UNISG enrolls approx. 100 students every year in the first year of the BSc program ("Laurea Triennale") in 'Gastronomic Sciences and Cultures' (taught both in English and Italian), approx. 40 in the 2-yrs Master's program ("Laurea Magistrale") in 'Food Innovation and Management'(in English), and about 100-150 in the 1-year Master's programs. In 2021 the university was hosting altogether approx. 500 students from more than 60 countries.

Organization and structure

The university's administration includes a rector, faculty council, board of directors, executive committee, administrative director, board of auditors, evaluation committee, and student representatives, each charged with a set of management duties. The board, who oversees the administrative and financial management of UNISG, nominates the Rector, who directs the university's academic and scientific activities. The faculty council includes all the full and associate professors, one representative of the researchers (assistant professors), and two student representatives.

Campus

The University of Gastronomic Sciences campus is in Pollenzo, a suburb of Bra, Italy. Bra is in the province of Cuneo, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Turin.

In 1997, the property that includes the campus was one of a group added to the list of World Heritage Sites under the general name, "Residences of the Royal House of Savoy". Listed specifically as Castello di Pollenzo, the property covers 25.36 hectares (62.7 acres) and lies within a buffer zone of 492.44 hectares (1,216.8 acres). The complex includes the Banca del Vino (wine bank), and the Albergo dell'Agenzia—a hotel with a restaurant—as well as the university. A recent addition to the complex is the Corte Albertina, home to the Pollenzo Food Lab. The university's administrative buildings and teaching spaces have been retrofitted to modern standards.

Housing

UNISG students live mainly in Bra.

Academics

UNISG offers a 3-year undergraduate program leading to a BSc ("Laurea Triennale") in "Gastronomic Sciences and Cultures" (taught both in English and Italian, 180 ECTS credits); a 2-year Master's program ("Laurea Magistrale", ECTS 120 credits), entirely taught in English, in "Food Innovation & Management", and seven one-year full-time Master's programs of 90 ECTS credits, also entirely taught in English: 1. Master of Gastronomy - World Food Cultures and Mobility; 2. Master of Gastronomy - Creativity, Ecology, and Education; 3. Master in Food Culture, Communication & Marketing; 4. Master in Wine Culture and Communication; 5. Master of Applied Gastronomy - Culinary Arts; 6. Master in Agroecology and Food Sovereignty; 7. Master in Design for Food (together with Polytechnic University of Milan). In all courses, students study an integrated mix of humanities (history of food, food aesthetics), biosciences (food biodiversity, nutritional sciences, taste science, food science and technology, agroecology, sensory science, and ethnobiology), and social sciences (food anthropology and sociology, communications, economics, food law, and food design).

In addition to coursework, students are required to attend field-study trips throughout Europe and the world. During this process of hands-on learning, students meet Slow Food local food communities, local farmers, shepherds, fishermen, food artisans, producers, and experts, who address the local food systems. The students also stay and visit these territories, analysing local and traditional practices and tasting a wide range of regional foods and beverages.

While almost all courses are taught in English, students are encouraged to have a strong working knowledge of both Italian and English.

The UNISG research area is structured within three macro-areas: 1. Environment; 2. Mobility; 3. Perception and Quality.From 2018 the university is also running a 3-year PhD program.

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italian: Libera Università di Bolzano, German: Freie Universität Bozen, Ladin: Università Liedia de Bulsan) is a university primarily located in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. It was founded on 31 October 1997 and is organized into five Faculties.

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) aims to offer students a multilingual, practice-oriented education that meets the demands of the local and the European labor market. Lectures and seminars are held in Italian, German and English. The only exception is the Faculty of Education, which offers Italian, German and Ladin speaking students separate training sections. The university offers study programmes ranging from bachelor's degrees to doctorates.

The emphasis of teaching is to provide theoretically sound and practice-orientated training. A large proportion of educational activities take place as seminars, lectures given by guest speakers, practical training and workshops. Within the framework of the academic exchange program students are encouraged to spend one or more semesters at universities abroad.

Campus

The university has three campuses: at Bolzano, Brixen and Bruneck. The buildings in Bolzano were designed by the architects Matthias Bischoff and Roberto Azzola of Zürich and those at Brixen by Regina Kohlmeyer and Jens Oberst from Stuttgart. The latter won in 2005 the 9th architecture prize of the city of Oderzo.

Rectors

The rectors of the university have been Alfred Steinherr, an economist from Luxembourg, from 1998 to 2003, the Swiss linguist Rita Franceschini, from 2004 to 2008, and the German sociologist Walter Lorenz, from 2008 to 2016. The Italian engineer Paolo Lugli is the actual rector since 2017.

Studium Generale

Since 2011, there has been a multidisciplinary Studium Generale course, which offers a wide range of lectures in fields of general interest.

Research

A total of 917 projects of basic and applied research have been conducted within the university since 1998.

The university has scientific and technological laboratories at each of its sites, at the NOI Techpark, a local technological and innovation hub, and at the Versuchszentrum Laimburg, an agronomy research institute.

Library

According to library ranking system issued by German library networks (BIX project) in 2009, this university has the second best library amongst German-speaking states (Germany, Switzerland, Austria and South Tyrol in Italy).

Students activities

The members of the student advisory board are elected every two years, however, between two elections a petition for the representative could be announced. Student representative are members of the University Council, the Academic Senate, the Faculty Council, the Course Council, the Equal Opportunities Committee and the Didactic Joint Committee.

The South Tyrolean Student association is the most important South Tyrolean association for students. Beside the head office in Bolzano there are seven branch offices in Austria and Italy. The sh.asus was founded in 1955 as a non-profit association. It represents South Tyrolean students studying abroad and students in South Tyrol.

The M.U.A., Movimento Universitario Altoatesino, is an association which has been recognize by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano and has been founded in the 1993. Its principal purposes are "to defend and ease the right to study of the students and the working students of the university" and "to organize conferences, debatings, conventions, cultural, social and university seminar". The association operates in Bolzano and promotes the project WEBZ, "the first web-tv of South-Tyrol made by youngs for youngs."

Kikero is a cultural association, which has been founded in 2000 and organizes activities such as the debating club and the movie nights. Furthermore, Kikero is also responsible for the university magazine "Kflyer".

SCUB, Sports Club University Bozen-Bolzano, is the students' association that mainly deals with sports activities and that organizes every year the SNOWDAYS, Europe's biggest wintersport event for students from all over Italy and the EU. SCUB comprises also the UniParty team, which is in charge of throwing university parties for unibz students.

A further student association is the Bozen – Bolzano local committee AIESEC, which organizes international exchange programmes to permit university students to get in touch with the working world.

PRO – Students for Business also encourages students to connect with the working environment through the enhancement of economic and business activities.

The university also has a choir called UnibzVoices, conducted by Prof. Johann Van der Sandt who teaches "Music and Communication" at the Brixen College of Education.

The most recent student association is the Alumni Club that comprises graduates of the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano.

The University of Bergamo (Italian: Università degli Studi di Bergamo), known colloquially as UniBg, is an Italian public university located in Bergamo, Italy. It was founded on 11 December 1968 and is organized in seven departments, three campuses and forty-one degree courses.

History

The University of Bergamo, founded in 1968, was originally named "The Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature". Under Rector Serio Galeotti (1972–75), the degree course in economics and business was introduced (1974), finally becoming a Faculty in 1988.

During the Chancellorship of Giorgio Szëgo, characterized by the new Faculty of Economics, the university continued to expand, but it was the Rector Pietro Enrico Ferri in 1990 who introduced the Faculty of Engineering in Dalmine and accompanied the passing of the private Institute to the State under the new name of "Università degli Studi di Bergamo".

Over the years the university has played an important role in recuperating some of the historic buildings in the Upper City: the Faculty of Foreign Languages started off in the ex-palace of the Venetian Governor in Piazza Vecchia; Economics was in the ex-Capuchin monastery in Piazza Rosate, while the Rector's seat is still in the ex-Terzi Palace of St. Agatha in Via Salvecchio.

The university has steadily expanded and in the last few years under the guidance of the Rector Stefano Paleari the growth has been remarkable. With the recent additions of Arts & Philosophy and Law, the Departments are now six; there are seventeen degree courses – three in Languages, three in Arts and Philosophy, four in Economics, one in Law, five in Engineering and one in the Science of economic and financial security in collaboration with the "Academy of the Guardia di Finanza" (a higher education college for the training of Italian Economic/Financial Police- The Guardia di Finanza is an Italian Police force directly under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. It is an integral part of the Italian Armed Forces as well as of the law enforcement agencies).

Together with eight post graduate diplomas there are also new courses in Law, Pedagogy and Tourism. Enrolments, constantly on the increase, have passed from 7 thousand (academic year 1999/2000) to more than 15 thousand (academic year 2013/2014); as new courses and teaching facilities increase so do the enrolments.

In 2001 the Faculty of Economics moved from the Upper City to the Lower City in Via dei Caniana. With the new Sant’Agostino complex and nearby ex-boarding house Baroni, which comprise the new centre for the Arts & Philosophy faculty, the university now occupies an area of 40,000 m2. In 2004, it established a satellite campus in Treviglio, the first five students of which graduated in 2007.

It is also important to consolidate research beyond the national boundaries. In fact Bergamo University is the administrative seat for six research doctorates and can boast important initiatives such as the International seminar of the Russian language, the Course on Italian language and literature for foreigners, the Centre specializing in anthropology, the Observatory on bank mergers, the centre for territorial studies.

There is an original and fruitful relationship between the university and the business activities in the Bergamo area. Various firms have contributed to the financing of the association Pro Universitate Bergomensi, which supports the university in its initiatives. As a result, certain degree courses in Textile engineering, and laboratories and research projects in various fields have been financed.

Certified quality

According to Censis' ranking on the educational offer of Italian universities, the University of Bergamo presents some of the best courses in Italy. This ranking takes into account the teaching offer of Italian bachelor's and master's degree in specific subjects and is based on the career progression and institutional relations for the 2018/2019 academic year, placing the University of Bergamo among the top performers in five teaching groups.

The quality of the University of Bergamo is not only recognized at national level. Times Higher Education has in fact ranked the university among the top 500 universities in the world and among the top 100 young universities in the world.

Organization

The university is divided into seven departments, some of which provide English-taught degrees:

Department of Arts and Philosophy

Department of Economics and Business Administration

Economics (Bsc)

Business Economics (BA)

Accounting, Accountability and Governance (MSc)

Management, Finance and International Business (MSc)

Business Administration and Financial Accounting (MSc)

Economics and Data Analysis (Msc)

Department of Engineering

Management Engineering (M.Eng)

Smart Technology Engineering (M.Eng.)

Engineering and Management for Health (M.Eng)

Department of Foreign Languages, Literature and Communication

Planning and Management of Tourism Systems (MSc)

Department of Law

Department of Human and Social Sciences

Clinical Psychology for Individuals, Families and Organizations (MSc)

The Giustino Fortunato University (Italian: Università degli Studi Giustino Fortunato), often simply abbreviated as "Unifortunato", is a private for-profit online university founded in 2006 in Benevento, Italy.

History

The university was named after Giustino Fortunato, who was a famous Italian historian. The university was established on 13 April 2006.

Academics

Giustino Fortunato University provides online distance learning courses to Italians. The degrees conferred are accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education. Classes are offered online, while exams are taken at designated places.

The university offers 3-year bachelor's, 2-year master's, and 5-year single cycle master's degrees. To be admitted in the Bachelor degree programme, prospective students are required at least to have a high school diploma. Credits from previous degrees can be validated in order to shorten the time to degree.

During 2016/2017, the university has approximately 218 students and employs 54 staff lecturers and professors.

Rectors

Aldo Loiodice

Nicola Di Prisco

Augusto Fantozzi

Angelo Scala

Giuseppe Acocella

The University of Sannio (Italian: Università degli Studi del Sannio, UNISANNIO) is a university located in Benevento, southern Italy. Founded in 1998 (being previously a part of the University of Salerno), the University of Sannio is organized in 4 faculties with almost 6,000 students and offers courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the fields of Law, Statistics, the Environment, Geology, Biology, Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Energy Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Economics and Business Organization.

History

The University of Sannio began as a part of the University of Salerno. Initially, it was included in the four-year plan 1986–90. Through Rectorial decrees on September 10, 1990, the following departments were set up: the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (now Faculty of Economics) with the degree courses of Banking Economics, Financial Economics, Insurance Economics, and Statistics, the Faculty of Engineering with a degree course in Computer Engineering. In the three-year plan 1991–93, the Faculty of Science was set up with additional degree courses in Biology and Geology.

The Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences was managed by a Technical committee until 31 October 1994. The Faculty of Engineering was managed by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salerno. Since November 1, 1994 both Faculties have had an autonomous Faculty Board.

The Consortium for the Promotion of Culture and University Studies has contributed to the implementation of the university in Benevento and is still playing a major part in its promotion. This organisation was established in 1987 by the Chamber of Commerce, the Province of Benevento and the Town Hall of Benevento. Successively, other public Institutions have joined the Consortium. With the Ministerial Decree n.1524, of 29 December 1997, the University of Sannio was officially recognized and became autonomous as from 1 January 1998.

Since 2005, the University of Sannio is a partner of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC).

The University of Sannio is divided into 4 Faculties:

- The Faculty of Law includes the first level degree course in Actuarial and Statistical Science; the specialist course in Actuarial and Statistical Science; the magisterial course in Jurisprudence.

- The Faculty of Engineering includes the first level degree courses in Information Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering, Energy Engineering; the specialist courses in Information Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering, Energy Engineering.

- The Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences includes the first level degree courses in Economics, Management and Organisation; and the specialist courses in Economics and Management and in Economics and Governance.

- The Faculty of Sciences includes degree courses in Biology, Geology and Biotechnology, and specialist courses in Biology, in Genetic Science and in Geological Science

Libera Università Mediterranea (also LUM, L’Università Lum Jean Monnet or Free Mediterranean University) is an Italian private university founded in 1995, in Casamassima, Metropolitan City of Bari.

The main building of the University is set in the industrial and directional center called "Baricentro", in Casamassima.

Another institutional site, set in Gioia del Colle deals with Management School, Postgraduate Masters and Law Affairs.

The University Campus is located near to the main building, inside the "Barialto" residence.

History

Lum Jean Monnet University was born in 1995 and then regularly recognised by the Educational and Research Ministry in 2000.

In the 2004 has been established the LUM University School of Management, with postgraduate courses, and in the same year the Specialization School of Law Affairs has been established as well.

Rankings

According to the statistics annually reported by the La Repubblica's journal, the Lum Jean Monnet University, with its Economics and Law faculties, is located at the first place of southern Italy private universities.

The data report a result of 87,4/110 for the Economics Department and 89,8/110 for the Law one.

Department and Courses

Faculty of Economics;

- Bachelor's degree in Economics and Corporate Governance with two possible specialization:

Banks, Trade Market and Finance

Economics and Management

- MSc in Economics and Managements with three specialization:

Business Advice and Management

Corporate Finance and Banking

International Management

Faculty of Law;

- Bachelor's degree in Business Law with two specialization:

Business Lawyer

Public Business Administration

- LL.M. in Law

School of Management

- I Level MBA:

MAC - Auditing and Control

MIGEM - General Management

MACREF - MBA in Corporate and Real Estate Finance

MIREM2 - MBA in Retail and Marketing Management

- II Level MBA:

MADA - Environmental Law

MADIS - Headmaster MBA

DEMAS - Law, Economy and Management in Health Business

- Managerial Education:

SM - Sales Manager

CAMAS - High Managerial Education in Sport Management

Post lauream

Specialization School of Law Affairs

Training courses for professional mediators

Phd:

Economics and Management of Natural Resources

General theory of trials: Administrative, Civil, Criminal and Tax

The University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italian: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro) is a higher education institution in Bari, Apulia, in Southern Italy.

The University of Bari was founded in 1925. It is a state-supported university which is divided into 12 faculties. Each faculty has its own set of departments that focus on the arts sciences, mathematics, social sciences, literature, medicine, law, and education.

The university offers various courses for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Aside from teaching, the university is also focused on scientific research at the doctorate level. The University of Bari research centres are highly-interactive, having connections among different departments, universities, and other research centres.

The University of Bari is one of the most prestigious universities in Southern Italy and it is one of the largest universities in Italy, with a student population of around 60,000. A recent name change refers to the statesman Aldo Moro (1916-1978), a student of law there until 1939 who then served as ordinary professor of philosophy of Law and Colonial Policy (1941) and of Criminal Law (1942).

The University has been awarded the following ranking positions:

ranked 359 by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) (2016)

ranked 437 by the CWTS Leiden Ranking (2016)

ranked 401–500, Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking (2016)

ranked over 500th position by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) (2016)

ranked over 700th position by QS World University Rankings (2016)

The University is one of the 48 Italian higher education institutions in the CWUR list of the top 1000 universities in the world for 2016. Moreover, it has been ranked between 151st and 200th in the world for Physics by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2015).

Presentation

Presentation of the Aosta university center The University of the Aosta Valley is a young, dynamic university with firm roots in the Aosta Valley and an eye towards Europe. Thanks to a dense network of relationships with universities and international organizations, each student has the concrete opportunity to carry out periods of study and work abroad. Academic collaborations and international scientific research projects complete the strategic structure and are reflected in teaching.

An international level that places the University of Valle d'Aosta in third place for internationalization in the Censis ranking of Italian universities, in the small non-state universities section.

The strategic choices are characterized by the pursuit of the quality of services for students. The small size of the University really makes it possible to put the student at the center of the educational project, making it possible to have a direct relationship with the professors and easy access to services.

In addition to promoting the training of young people from Valle d'Aosta and the qualification of local professionals, the University aims to attract a growing number of students from all Italian regions. The intent is facilitated by an exceptional reference context: the Aosta Valley contains a rich naturalistic, historical and artistic heritage, as well as many sporting attractions, both during the summer and winter seasons.

Marche Polytechnic University (Italian Università Politecnica delle Marche) is a public university in Ancona, Italy. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Agriculture, Engineering, Economics, Medicine and Biology.

Academics

The teaching faculty currently numbers 710 teaching staff, along with 560 technical and administrative personnel. These are the 5 schools in which the university is divided into:

School of Agriculture

School of Economics

School of Engineering

School of Medicine and Surgery

School of Sciences

Elena Anaya Gutiérrez (born 17 July 1975) is a Spanish actress whose career started in 1995. She starred alongside Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In, for which she won the Goya award for Best Actress. She is also known for her roles in Van Helsing, Habitación en Roma (Room in Rome) and Doctor Poison in Wonder Woman.

Early life

Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain. She is the youngest of three children. Her mother, Elena (Nena), is a housewife who later owned a boarding house in Palencia. Her father, Juan José Anaya Gómez (1934–2011), was an industrial engineer.

Career

Anaya first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Sex and Lucía. She also had a small part in Almodóvar's Talk to Her.

Her best-known Hollywood film role was as Aleera, one of Dracula's brides in 2004's Van Helsing. That same year, Anaya was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.

In 2006, Anaya appeared in Justin Timberlake's music video for his single, "SexyBack".

Anaya at the 2010 Malaga Film Festival

After some "quiet" years playing supporting roles in international films such as Savage Grace and Cairo Time, Anaya roared back into prominence with a starring role in 2010's Room in Rome, and then a return to Almodóvar in The Skin I Live In.

In 2017, Anaya appeared as Doctor Poison in the superhero blockbuster film, Wonder Woman.

Personal life

In August 2011, Spanish tabloid magazine Cuore published photographs of Anaya kissing director Beatriz Sanchís at a naturist beach in Menorca. They were reportedly in a relationship from 2008 to 2013.

In November 2016, it was announced that Anaya was expecting her first child with her partner, Tina Afugu Cordero, a costume designer. In February 2017, Anaya gave birth to their son.

Filmography