The
University of Ferrara ( ) is the main university of the city of Ferrara
in the
Emilia-Romagna region of northern
Italy
. In the years prior to the
First World War the University of Ferrara, with
more than 500 students, was the best attended of the free
universities in Italy. Today there are approximately 12,000
students enrolled at the University of Ferrara with nearly 400
degrees granted each year. The teaching staff number 600, including
223 researchers. It is organized into 8 Faculties.
History
The University of Ferrara was founded on
March
4,
1391 by Marquis
Alberto V D'Este with the permission of
Pope Boniface IX. The Studium
Generale was inaugurated on
St.
Luke's Day (
October 18) of that year
with courses in
law,
arts and
theology.After the
unification of Italy, Ferrara
University became a free
university with
faculties of Law and
Mathematics, a
three-year course in
Medicine (reduced to
two years in
1863-
64), as
well as Schools of
Veterinary
Medicine (abolished in
1876), Pharmacy, and
for public Notaries.
After
World War II, it started to be
state-supported and this allowed the opening of many faculties and
research departments. The most remarkable growth took place between
the '70s and the '80s, when Prof.
Antonio Rossi was
in charge of it as
Rector.
Some notable instructors include:
Research and international collaboration
The CIVR (Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca,
or Directory Committee for the Evaluation of Research), according
to a public report of 2007, has rated the University of Ferrara as
the best Italian university for the applied exploitation of
research. In order to produce these results, the CIVR has taken
into consideration numerous data such as patents registered in
Italy and abroad, the research collaborations between the
university business and academic spin-offs.
Starting in 2000, the University of Ferrara has collaborated across
the faculties of economics, architecture, medicine, jurisprudence
and engineering in the main industrial areas of China, that is,
Guangdong, in research and experimentation with the Chinese
universities and important local businesses. Collaborations have
begun between the Faculty of Economics of Ferrara and the South
China University of Technology, an agreement that has permitted the
faculty in Ferrara to undertake a research project about the
industry of Guangdong and has allowed the Faculty of Medicine to
open in 2006 a permanent office near the Capital University of
Medical Sciences of Beijing. This has allowed the implementation of
a master’s degree of the second level in clinical Neurophysiology,
with consent to the young Chinese neurologists, to expand the
applied techniques and their studies of neuroscience. Institutions
participating in the master’s program include the department of
neurophysiology of the University of Ferraro, the Neurological
institute of Milan and to Beijing.
Another active master’s program with its seat in Ferrara is that of
the aesthetics and cosmetology signed to Canton through the Ferrara
Center of Cosmetology and the Chinese academy Ginzza International
Beauty and Hair Academy.
Organization
These are the 8 faculties which the university is divided
into:
As of 2008, there are 16 PhD courses, organized around a special
Institute for Advanced Studies,
IUSS-Ferrara 1391.
Generally speaking,
research departments do not coincide with
faculties (as is usual in Italy). Specifically, literature,
history, philosophy are independent of one another. Furthermore,
biologists, physicists, and geologists work in different
institutions. Medical research is carried out in cooperation with
the city hospital, which offers some of its buildings for use as a
teaching hospital.
Famous alumni
Points of interest
See also
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