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

2. Rome VeniceLocation

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

4. Founded in 1222 Organised not ex privilegio, 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” Elena Lucrezia Piscopia 1678

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 EducationHumanities Medicine & surgery Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences EngineeringPharmacyPsychologyStatistics 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. Italian Master 1 yr (Continuing education ) The educational structure 180 credits 3 years 120 credits 2 years 1 credit = 25 hrs Post-graduate courses PhD 1° cycle (BS: “Laurea”) 2° cycle (Master: “Laurea specialistica”)

9. Italian Master 1 yr (Continuing education ) Degree programmes ( Degree programmes (2005-06) Post-graduate courses PhD 1° cycle (BS: “Laurea”) 2° cycle (Master: “Laurea specialistica”) 104 programmes 79 programmes 71 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 Faculty of Agriculture SUFONAMA - Master in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management web site http://www.sufonama.net/ http://www.sufonama.net/ SUTROFOR - Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Masters Course web site http://www.sutrofor.net/ http://www.sutrofor.net/ Faculty of Education Faculty of Education Master of Bioethics http://med.kuleuven.be/education/Bioethics/ Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering SAMHC - Advanced Master in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions web sitehttp://www.msc-sahc.org/ http://www.msc-sahc.org/ Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities TPTI - Techniques. Patrimoines. Territoires de l'Industrie: Histoire. Valorisation. Didactique http://www.tpti.eu/ Faculty of Natural Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences ALGANT - Algebra. Geometry and Number Theory http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ALGANT/

12. Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture

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

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

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

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

20. How to find us? www.agraria.unipd.it www.agraria.unipd.it

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

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