University of Trieste

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University of Trieste
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Latin: Universitas Studiorum Tergestum
TypePublic
Established1924
RectorProf. Roberto Di Lenarda
Administrative staff
1,000
Students15177[1]
Location,
Italy
CampusUrban
Sports teamsCUS Trieste
AffiliationsAlmalaurea, CEI University Network, Nettuno (accessed 26 February 2014)
Websitewww.units.it

The University of Trieste (

Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy
. The university consists of 10 departments, has a wide and almost complete range of university courses and has about 15,000 students and 1,000 professors. It was founded in 1924.

The historical international vocation of the University of Trieste is witnessed by its intense and high-level activity: Trieste is the centre of many research facilities, with which the university is connected by cooperation agreements. Among them, there are the

INAF
), and many others, building up the so-called "sistema Trieste" (Trieste System).

Moreover, the number of international inter-university co-operation agreements rapidly increased these last years. These agreements involve staff and student mobility, both within EU Programmes like the Socrates programme and agreements exclusively concerned with research activities.

History

University of Trieste central building on the Scoglietto hill

Before

Italian Prime Minister
and other authorities.

Italian government
to the inauguration ceremony.

Piazza Unità d'Italia, the centre of students' life in Trieste

In 1954 Trieste was given back to Italy thanks to an agreement between the

President of the Italian Republic Luigi Einaudi
a honoris causa degree in Economy and Commerce. In a short time new faculties were added (Pharmacy, Teaching Sciences, Medicine and Surgery, Political Sciences), while also new buildings were inaugurated on the Scoglietto hill and in other parts of the town. In 1978 the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators was given the status of faculty; in 1997 the faculty of Psychology and in 1998 the faculty of Architecture completed the range of faculties currently present at the university.

Organization

Students studying in the university facilities

These are the 10 departments into which the university is divided on the basis of the major reorganisation of the university's academic structure which took place in 2010:

A Language Centre was established as an independent service on 1 January 2003. The centre provides fundamental support in the following areas: organisation and running of taught language courses in all the Faculties of Trieste University; organisation of Italian courses (beginner, intermediate and advanced level) for Erasmus students both going abroad and coming to Trieste.

Structures

Faculty of Engineering

The main campus is centered on the building in Piazzale Europa, on the Scoglietto hill, housing the Rector's office, the Administration offices, the Main Library and the faculties of Law and

Chemical Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Macromolecular Chemistry
. Within the premises are also sited the university canteen and three university dorms, run by the ARDISS - Agenzia Regionale per il Diritto agli Studi Superiori (Regional Agency for the Right to Higher Education).

Students' house of the University of Trieste

Other departments are located in different parts of the town. The Department of

Earth Sciences
are accommodated in the buildings of the former psychiatric hospital, not far away from the main campus, inside San Giovanni Park.

In the heart of the city near the seafront, the old buildings of Via dell'Università and Via del Lazzaretto vecchio house the Department of Humanities, while the Narodni Dom* houses the Section of Studies in Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation, the first advanced school of for interpreters and translators in Italy. *Restitution to the Slovenian community of Trieste in 2020.

The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery is located in several university compounds, particularly in structures annexed to the three town hospitals: Cattinara, Trieste General Hospital[2] (Ospedale Maggiore), and Burlo Garofolo.

Faculty of Medicine and Surgery

Far from the city centre, near the ICTP (

karst plateau, in Basovizza
.

A few faculties are not in Trieste, but in other cities of the

Political Sciences) and three first-level degree: Business communication and human resource management, Economics and tourism management, Territorial policy. Finally, the Portogruaro
campus in the Veneto region hosts the Teaching Sciences Department.

Gorizia campus

Trieste System

In 2020, Trieste was declared as the European City of Science and hosted the EuroScience Open Forum, the most important European event dedicated to science, technology, society and policy.[3] Trieste International Foundation (TIF) is the promoter of Trieste System which is worldwide known as the 'United Nations System of Sciences'.[4] Following international institutes located or headquartered in Trieste maintains collaborations, research and academic affiliations with the University of Trieste and offers programmes at different level from undergraduate to doctorate.[4][5]

Campus

  • San Giovanni Teaching Hub[6]
  • Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences[7]
  • Gorizia[8]
  • Pordenone: Since 1991, an additional satellite site has been established in Pordenone (located at Via Prasecco 4/1). At this site, the university offers degree courses in Production Engineering and Management, which are part of the Department of Engineering and Architecture's curriculum.[9]
  • Portogruaro, in the Province of Venice: In 1997, the University expanded its presence by creating a satellite site in Portogruaro, located in the Province of Venice. This site offers degree programs in Education.[10]
  • Orto Botanico dell'Università di Trieste (Botanical Garden of the University of Trieste): is maintained by University of Trieste. Founded in 1963, the Botanical Garden of the University of Trieste has an extension of about 2 square kilo meters plus two more woods on Mount Valerio.[11]

Points of interest

Notable people

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Publications

Since 1999 the university's department of philosophy has published the journal Ethics & Politics [Etica & Politica]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Anagrafe Nazionale Studenti". anagrafe.miur.it.
  2. PMID 17566310
    .
  3. ^ "Trieste will be the European city of science in 2020". 11 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Sistema Trieste | Fondazione Internazionale Trieste". 26 January 2016.
  5. ^ "City of Knowledge". MibTrieste.Site.Web.
  6. ^ "Locations". 27 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Locations". 27 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Locations". 27 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Locations". 27 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Locations". 27 July 2018.
  11. ^ Ciccone, Eugenio. "Orto Botanico Università di Trieste | Orto Botanico d'Italia". Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  12. ^ "radioincorso.it". radioincorso.it.
  13. OCLC 958679473
    .
  14. ^ "Etica & Politica". units.it. University of Trieste. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

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