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University of Padova Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture

Galileo Galilei 1592-1610. University of Padova Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture. Location. Venice. Rome. City of Padua: total population of 205.000 inhabitants. 30 km far from Venice. Elena Lucrezia Piscopia 1678. Founded in 1222.

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University of Padova Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture

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  1. Galileo Galilei 1592-1610 University of Padova Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture

  2. Location Venice Rome

  3. City of Padua: total population of 205.000 inhabitants 30 km far from Venice

  4. Elena Lucrezia Piscopia 1678 Founded in 1222 • Organised not ex privilegio, but by a group of students who had left the University of Bologna as a result of “offences to academic freedom and the failure to observe the privileges that had been guaranteed to teachers and pupils”. • Motto “Universa Universis Patavina Libertas”

  5. Structure • 65 Departments • organised in 13 Faculties • A unified system of 54 University libraries with 1.900.000 volumes, 12.500 magazines and 9,000 on-line magazines • 45 research and service centres • 1 general hospital • 1 experimental farm • 1 veterinary hospital The College library: 45,000 books; 9,200 journals full text on line

  6. Faculties(13) • Agriculture • Law • Political Sciences • Education • Humanities • Medicine & surgery • Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences • Engineering • Pharmacy • Psychology • Statistics • Veterinary medicine • Economics

  7. People • 2,300 professors and researchers • 2,200 staff members • 66,000 students (13,000 graduates) • 1,700 doctorate candidates Budget • 500 M Euros • 30 M Euros for research

  8. 180 credits 3 years 1° cycle (BS: “Laurea”) 120 credits 2 years 2° cycle (Master:“Laurea specialistica”) Post-graduate courses Post-graduate courses 1 credit = 25 hrs PhD The educational structure Italian Master 1 yr (Continuing education)

  9. 1° cycle (BS: “Laurea”) 2° cycle (Master:“Laurea specialistica”) Post-graduate courses Post-graduate courses PhD Degree programmes (2005-06) Italian Master 1 yr (Continuing education) 104 programmes 71 programmes 79 programmes • Doctoral Schools: 34

  10. Foreign students • 1,900 in the 1st and 2nd cycle • 60 doctoral students • Exchange students (mainly Socrates-Erasmus programme):~ 800 out, 600 in

  11. 6 Erasmus Mundus Int Master courses Faculty of Agriculture SUFONAMA - Master in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management • web site http://www.sufonama.net/ SUTROFOR - Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Masters Course • web site http://www.sutrofor.net/ Faculty of Education Master of Bioethics • http://med.kuleuven.be/education/Bioethics/ Faculty of Engineering SAMHC - Advanced Master in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions • web sitehttp://www.msc-sahc.org/ Faculty of Humanities TPTI - Techniques. Patrimoines. Territoires de l'Industrie: Histoire. Valorisation. Didactique • http://www.tpti.eu/ Faculty of Natural Sciences ALGANT - Algebra. Geometry and Number Theory • http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ALGANT/

  12. Agripolis andthe Faculty of Agriculture

  13. 131 professors and researchers 2.500 students (530 new enrolled) • 4 main institutions: • the College of Agriculture • the Collegeof Veterinary • the Agricultural Development Agency • the Institute for Animal Diseases Prevention • University • Veneto Region • State

  14. Departments( research) • Land Use and Agro-forestry Systems • Environmental Agronomy and Agricultural Production • Animal Science • Agricultural Bio-Technology

  15. Faculty’s Experimental Farm 69 ha of farmland close to the Faculty with experimental plots, grassland, greehouses, cowshed, forest plantations Study Centre for the Alpine Environment in San Vito di Cadore (Dolomites)

  16. PhD Schools Animal science Territory, environment, resources and health Crop production science Biotechnology and bio-chemestry Viticulture, enology and marketing in the wine sector Managerial engineering and economic evaluation

  17. Padova 2nd year Master specialisation: Ethics in forestry and responsible management, processing and trade of tropical forest products & services

  18. International market (Paola Gatto) Business & ethics (Davide Pettenella) Forest policies & conflicts management (Gerard Buttoud) Social marketing (Laura Secco) Sutrofor Master course Research metho-dology, statistics (Luca Rossetto & Mattia Cai)

  19. If you have any problems or issues to discuss - contact Riccardo first, Enrico Second! … or if you prefer:

  20. Howtofindus?www.agraria.unipd.it

  21. OurContacts enrico.vidale@gmail.com riccardo.dare@unipd.it nico.andrighetto@libero.it lucavolo@msn.com

  22. Final wish to you all coming to Padova See you! Arrivederci! La revedere! Näkemiin! Dasvidania! Zbohom! “I shall come back richer, more mature” motto by G.V. Pinelli, second half of XVI Century

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