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Università degli Studi di Trieste | |
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| Latin:Universitas Studiorum Tergestum[1] | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1924 |
| Rector | Prof. Roberto Di Lenarda |
Administrative staff | 1,000 |
| Students | 15177[2] |
| Location | , Italy 45°39′31″N13°47′35″E / 45.6585°N 13.79318°E /45.6585; 13.79318 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sports teams | CUS Trieste |
| Affiliations | Almalaurea, CEI University Network,Nettuno (accessed 26 February 2014) |
| Website | www.units.it |
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TheUniversity of Trieste (Italian:Università degli Studi di Trieste, orUniTS, Formerly Regia Università degli Studi or The Royal University of Studies) is a public research university inTrieste in theFriuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastItaly. 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 research activity: Trieste is the centre of many research facilities, with which the university is connected by cooperation agreements. Among them, there are theInternational School for Advanced Studies, theInternational Centre for Theoretical Physics, the National Institute of Oceanography, theInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, theElettra Sincrotrone Trieste Facility, the Trieste sections of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (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 theSocrates programme and agreements exclusively concerned with research activities.
BeforeWorld War I, when Trieste was still a part of theAustro-Hungarian Empire, the Italian-speaking population strongly supported the idea of building a university in the town, but Austrian authorities repeatedly rejected the proposal. After the annexation of Trieste to Italy, the already existingSuperior School in Commerce was granted the same rights of similar schools in Italy, and in 1924 it was turned into a university, by king's decree (8 August 1924, n. 1338). In 1938, with the institution of the Law faculty, the second after the Economy and Commerce faculty, the university became aStudium Generale (General Studies) one, and thus was given the title ofRegia Università degli Studi (The Royal University of Studies). In the same year, the construction of a new building to house the faculties began on the Scoglietto hill, in a position dominating the Old City. The building, which still hosts the directive board and some faculties, was designed by architectsRaffaello Fagnoni andUmberto Nordio. The first stone was posed in a ceremony on 19 September 1938 in the presence of theItalian Prime Minister and other authorities.
World War II slowed down the planned enlargement of the university. Indeed, the faculty of Engineering, although established in 1942, was restricted to naval engineering until the end of the war, while the opening of the faculty of Literature and philosophy, planned in 1943, was postponed till 1945. After the world war,Trieste was put under the joint control of theUnited Kingdom and theUnited States of America, in preparation for the establishment of a fully independent State, theFree Territory of Trieste, which nevertheless never came to exist. The Allied Government allowed the foundation of the new Literature and Philosophy faculty, instituted the faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, and completed the construction of the main building on the Scoglietto hill, inviting an emissary of theItalian government to the inauguration ceremony.
In 1954 Trieste was given back to Italy thanks to an agreement between theAmerican and theItalian governments. To celebrate, the university awarded thePresident of the Italian RepublicLuigi Einaudi ahonoris 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 theSchool 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.
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) forErasmus students both going abroad and coming toTrieste.
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 andPolitical Sciences. Other buildings in the campus host the faculties of Economics,Pharmacy, Mathematical,Physical andNatural Sciences, Engineering, the Medical Institutes of Microbiology and Physiology, thetowing tank, the Data Processing Centre, the Department ofChemical Sciences and the Department ofBiochemistry,Biophysics andMacromolecular 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).
Other departments are located in different parts of the town. The Department ofGeological Sciences and the Department ofEarth 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 ofHumanities, while theNarodni 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.
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| QS World[3] | 751-760 (2026) |
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[4] (Ospedale Maggiore), and Burlo Garofolo.
Far from the city centre, near the ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) there is the Department of Theoretical Physics, in the village ofMiramare-Grignano, while the Department ofAstronomy is housed near Trieste's twoAstronomical Observatories: on San Vito hill and on thekarst plateau, inBasovizza.
A few faculties are not in Trieste, but in other cities of theFriuli-Venezia Giulia region and in the neighboringVeneto region. Particularly, in thePordenone campus, there are undergraduate and graduate programs in Engineering and Education, while theGorizia campus offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in International and Diplomatic Studies (part of the Faculty ofPolitical Sciences) and three first-level degree: Business communication and human resource management, Economics and tourism management, Territorial policy. Finally, thePortogruaro campus in the Veneto region hosts the Teaching Sciences Department.
In 2020,Trieste was declared as theEuropean City of Science and hosted the EuroScience Open Forum, the most important European event dedicated to science, technology, society and policy.[5] Trieste International Foundation (TIF) is the promoter of Trieste System which is worldwide known as the 'United Nations System of Sciences'.[6] Following international institutes located or headquartered inTrieste maintains collaborations, research and academic affiliations with the University of Trieste and offers programmes at different level from undergraduate to doctorate.[6][7]
Since 1999 the university's department of philosophy has published the journalEthics & Politics [Etica & Politica]ISSN 1825-5167.[15][16]
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