Trieste University

University of Trieste
Università degli Studi di Trieste

Motto	Ricorda e splendi
Established	1924
Type	State-supported
Rector	Prof. Francesco Peroni
Admin. staff	1,000
Students	23,000
Location	Trieste, Italy
Sports teams	CUS Trieste
Affiliations	Almalaurea, CEI University Network, Nettuno,
Website	www.units.it/

The University of Trieste is a medium-sized university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The university consists of 12 faculties, boasts a wide and almost complete range of university courses and currently has about 23,000 students enrolled and 1,000 professors. It is a relatively young Institution (80 years old) compared to other Italian Universities.

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.

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.

In 2009, in the Il Sole 24 Ore National University Ranking, University of Trieste resulted the second best university in Italy. Moreover, in 2010, it was evaluated the best Italian university by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Vision

Instruct is the dynamic hub of structural biology providing an integrated infrastructure of cutting-edge technology, scientific expertise and pioneering training. We aim to provide strategic leadership for structural biology in Europe by promoting an integrated approach to technology and methodologies. We are making this happen in a number of ways.

We provide structural and cell biologists from both industry and academia the opportunity to further their research with cutting-edge technologies sited at Instruct Centres across Europe. A simple, transparent peer reviewed process will allocate access based on merit and scientific priorities.

The expert support and training available through Instruct ensures research is productive and that technology is used to optimal effect. This will include training in the use of the technology platform itself.

Our workshops, conferences, secondments, PhD programme and fellowships, in partnership with world-leading companies, all focus on promoting and developing innovative, integrated approaches to structural biology.

We work with the companies that manufacture the machines used by structural and cell biologists. We help them to develop, test and optimise new technologies that will spur breakthroughs in biology. We also provide funding for academic pilot projects in this field.

We are fostering the sharing of ideas and resources through the Instruct Hub; a thriving online community of researchers from across Europe and beyond who share a passion for pushing the boundaries of existing scientific disciplines and expertise.

Instruct is part of the European Strategy for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) roadmap. We are working to be a voice for structural biology and to ensure sufficient future investment in infrastructure.

Engage with us on the Instruct Hub.

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Hub diagram - all the connections within the network

Organization

These are the 12 faculties into which the university is divided:

Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Political Sciences
Faculty of Psychology
Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators

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 Socrates students both going abroad and coming to Trieste; provision of services on behalf of a third party;

The main Campus, which is developed around the main building in Piazzale Europa, housing the Rector's office, the Administration offices, the Main Library and the faculties of Law and Political Sciences, includes the buildings of the faculties of Economics, Pharmacy, Mathematical Physical and Natural Sciences, Engineering, the Medical Institutes of Microbiology and Physiology, the towing tank, the Data Processing Centre and the building where the Department of Chemical Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Macromolecular Chemistry are accommodated. Within the premises are sited the university canteen and three Students' hostels, run by the Ente Regionale per il Diritto allo studio - ERDISU - (Regional Organization for the Right to University Study).

The main building in Piazzale Europa

The premises of the former psychiatric hospital, near the main campus, consisting in a number of small buildings immersed in the lush vegetation of Mount Valerio, are occupied by the Department of Geological Sciences and the Department of Earth Sciences.

The Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators has recently moved to a new location in the very central Via Filzi in a recently restored building, with the Language Centre.

The old and fascinating buildings of Via dell'Università and Via del Lazzaretto vecchio, in the heart of the city near the seafront, house the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy, whereas the Faculty of Education is situated on the hill of San Vito.

The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery is located in several university compounds, particularly in the town hospitals: Cattinara, Ospedale Maggiore, Burlo Garofolo.

Far from the city centre, near the ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) you can find the Department of Theoretical Physics, on the coastline road, in Miramare-Grignano, and the Department of Astronomy, located near Trieste's two Astronomical Observatories: on San Vito hill and on the karst plateau, near Basovizza.

In the Regional Branch of Pordenone, first and advanced degrees of the faculties of Engineering and Education.

Gorizia, the other regional branch of the University of Trieste, in a compound belonging to the old Archbishop's Seminar, features the first and advanced degree in International and Diplomatic Studies founded by the Faculty of Political Sciences and three first-level degree: Business communication and human resource management, Economics and tourism management, Territorial policy.

The large number of scientific centres, situated in the Trieste area, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the Experimental Geophysical Observatory, the SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), the Scientific and Technological Research Area, Elettra (Synchrotron Light Laboratory), the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the Marine Biology Laboratory, the Astronomical Observatory, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics which have contributed to make Trieste "The town of Science", benefit from the activity of the university researchers and, at the same time, make a contribution to the search for knowledge, which is the primary aim of Universities, whose main vocation, in turn, is the transmission of knowledge.