Education

OBJECTIVES

  • to increase progressively the number of our students up to 40.000 units.
  • to continue attracting a high number of international students (>15%), with greater attention to the quality of their background and potential impact on the Italian economy and the possible interactions with their home countries.
  • to become an attractive university for students from a growing number of regions, including Western countries, in addition to the students from our current international partner countries.
  • to reduce students’ average graduation delay by at least 10%
  • to open a university Teaching Lab, as a tool for continuous improvement of our faculty members’ teaching skills and for training new lecturers
  • to innovate our pedagogical approach with the aim of fostering students’ critical thinking, social responsibility, problem-setting and problem-solving abilities, capacity for innovation as well as soft skills. 
  • to include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the UN 2030 Agenda in our curricula.
  • to recognize the importance of human and social sciences and interdisciplinarity as an educational value.
  • to boost opportunities for our students to study abroad and to achieve a balance between outgoing and incoming students at the same time.
  • to create an alumni community proactively committed to our University
  • to enhance the activities of the Specializing Master’s Programmes and Lifelong Learning School and to increase the number of its students
  • to raise the average percentage of female students enrolled in first year of engineering programmes to over 35% within the next 6 years; to achieve full gender equality in some degree programmes.