Universities - Piemonte Feel

The Piemonte university system is made up of four universities. Almost 20,000 students are awarded degrees every year in Piemonte and more than 6,400 researchers carry out their researches at these universities. Representatives from the four universities participate in Regional Committee for Research and Innovation.

Università degli Studi di Torino
Founded in 1404, today the Università di Torino has 12 schools, 55 departments, and 13 research centres, interdepartmental services that cover all fields of knowledge and 3 pre-eminent centres funded and recognized by the National Ministry: CIM (Centro Imaging Molecolare per la diagnostica molecolare - Molecular Imaging Centre for Molecular Diagnostics), CEBIOVEM (Centro di Eccellenza per la Biosensoristica Vegetale e Microbica – Pre-eminence Centre for Vegetable and Microbiotic Biosensoristics), and NIS (Nanostructured Surfaces and Interphases for Nanotechnologies). The Università degli Studi di Torino has more than 73,000 students, 3,200 of which are foreign students, 7,000 are working on doctorates and specializing, and it is one of the largest Italian Universities. The Università di Torino has more than 3,700 people committed to research and sets aside about 30% of its budget for research.
www.unito.it

Politecnico di Torino
The Politecnico di Torino is a high-tech university for training and for top-level research both in Architecture and in Engineering. Every year, more than 800 research contracts are drawn up with major national and international companies. About half of the research is funded by contractual activity. Besides this, the Politecnico di Torino has begun a program of expanding its work in experimental research with the creation of High Quality Labs (LAQ - Laboratori di Alta Qualità), of which there are three today. The Cittadella Politecnica, the new campus, intends to become a prestigious scientific and technological centre with the goal of uniting training, research, and enterprise. Presently, companies as prominent as General Motor Europe, Microsoft, and other sector leaders will settle in the Cittadella.
www.polito.it

Università del Piemonte Orientale
The “Università Avogadro” was founded in 1998 and today, on the eve of its tenth year of existence, is organized into 7 schools and 12 departments, geographically distributed in three seats – the three cities of Alessandria, Novara and Vercelli. Besides this, a Scuola di Alta Formazione (S.A.F. – High Training School) which unites both scientific doctorates - in the strictest sense - as well humanities doctorates is up and running, with more than 150 doctoral students enrolled. The Università del Piemonte Orientale sets aside more than 40% of its budget for research, a sector in which it ranks third in Italy according to the 2006 ranking by the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”. Today, “Avogadro” Università has more than 10,000 students enrolled, 370 members of the teaching staff and researchers, and 360 administrative technicians. Besides this, about fifty partnerships have been established for research work and for the mobility of the teaching staff and researchers with Universities and Institutes on all continents.
www.unipmn.it

Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche
The Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche is the first university in the world entirely dedicated to the culture of food and to the spread of the wine and food culture. It is a non-state university legally recognized by the Italian state. The Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche, with its bilingual teaching (Italian and English), intends to give academic dignity to gastronomy as a complex and interdisciplinary science through the study of a new food culture. It has the goal of creating an international research and training centre on breeding methods, on the protection of biodiversity, and on the strict ties between gastronomy and agricultural sciences.
www.unisg.it