University of Padova Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture Galileo Galilei

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

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

Structure 65 Departments organised in 13 Faculties A unified system of 54 University libraries with volumes, 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

Faculties (13) Agriculture Law Political Sciences EducationHumanities Medicine & surgery Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences EngineeringPharmacyPsychologyStatistics Veterinary medicine Economics

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

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”)

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

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

6 Erasmus Mundus Int Master courses Faculty of Agriculture Faculty of Agriculture SUFONAMA - Master in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management web site SUTROFOR - Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Masters Course web site Faculty of Education Faculty of Education Master of Bioethics Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering SAMHC - Advanced Master in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions web sitehttp:// Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities TPTI - Techniques. Patrimoines. Territoires de l'Industrie: Histoire. Valorisation. Didactique Faculty of Natural Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences ALGANT - Algebra. Geometry and Number Theory

Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture

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 students (530 new enrolled) 131 professors and researchers

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

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)

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

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

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

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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