Sapienza

Sapienza University of Rome

Sapienza University of Rome, founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second largest University in Europe, greatly able to manage its outstanding numbers: 112.000 and more enrolled students, around 8.000 out of them coming from foreign countries and 1.500 incoming and 1.700 outgoing exchange students each year, 11 faculties covering almost all scientific and social areas coordinating a total number of 60 departments, more than 4.700 professors and researchers and 4.300 administrative and technical staff.

Sapienza offers a vast array of courses: around 270 degree programmes at Bachelor and Master level, 80 PhD courses, more than 200 one to two year long lasting professional courses and around 70 Specialization Schools, 35 Bachelor and Master degree programmes entirely taught in English (including a full 6-year long lasting degree in Medicine and Surgery), plus many English-taught single courses in various disciplines.

Sapienza is also one of the few Italian public Universities always ranked in major international rankings, active member of several international networks such as COURSERA, UNICA, UNIMED, the SANTANDER GROUP and many others and therefore it plays a fundamental role in the academic international scenario.

Committed to the importance of the internationalization of education and training, to the expertise and know-how sharing, to the collaboration in institutional and capacity building, Sapienza University is engaged, since a long time, in an extensive range of international cooperation projects and actions with almost every geographical area of the world: from Asia to the Balkans, from Australia to the Middle East, from America to the ACP countries.

This long lasting experience has brought Sapienza to an extensive knowledge of the international cooperation that made our University able to develop a wide and now tested range of management and operational skills in the field.

The Department of Chemical Material Environmental Engineering, in charge for the management of the project, contributes to the education for the curricula of Masters Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Environmental and civil engineering, Safety Engineering and Industrial Nanotechnology. It has a wide experience of participation in international education and research projects. Sapienza was the responsible of the EU project ECONANO, concerning a study on the modernization of ecology engineering in Azerbaijan. Sapienza has also a long time experience in third level education (Ph.D., 3rd level Advanced course) in the field of Engineering.

UNIROMA1, and in particular, the Department of Chemical Engineering Materials and Environment will coordinate the project, both regarding the teaching and the administrative activities. Due to the wide experience either on front end teaching or tutorial laboratory, this organisation will provide teachers for the 3rd level course in Environmental Engineering. In addition, 5 students attending will be hosted near UNIROMA1 lab to develop their final thesis project, and up to 10 AZ teachers will be hosted to be acquainted with the EU HE approach in Environmental Engineering. Basing on previous experiences in the field of 3rd cycle high education, jointly organized with industries and stakeholders, Sapienza will play a crucial role in the design and organization of the proposed postgraduate 3rd cycle course.

The experience of participation in national and international research consortia will be exploited in the phase involving the building up of the Training Centre.