Guide University Verona - Università degli Studi di Verona

A
Guide
to the
University
of
Verona

A
Guide
to the University of
Verona
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Welcome to Verona
We invite you to visit us at any time—
in person or through this guide—and explore
the life of our campus.
Some people think of Verona primarily
as a territorial University. This is indeed true
as it pertains to the reasons and to the ways
modern Universities have been founded in
north-eastern Italy, in whose ancient history
witnesses the past vivid blooming of cultural
and educational activities, which eventually
reached, in 1339, the official foundation of
a studium in Verona ratified through a papal
bull of Pope Benedetto XII. Later, under the
powerful venetian sovereignty, which had replaced
the brief Visconti family’s dominion, all
the university activities in the territory, with a
resolution of the Senate, were merged into the
old University of Padova.
After centuries of commitments to mili-
tary roles and after the devastating effects of the
Second World War, the city of Verona regained
its original productive and cultural vocation
and - thanks to the strong perseverance of the
local administration - in 1959 the decision
to establish a higher education institute was
made. Thenceforth, the University of Verona
rapidly grew up along with the industrial
development of the territory, catching up with
other long-established and highly reputed Italian
Universities.
Being a relatively young Institution,
the University of Verona is still living a fast
growing phase, centred on two main campuses,
one dedicated to Humanities and Social
Sciences and the other one to Physical and
Natural Sciences and Medicine. Both of them
are located in the charming environment of
one of the most attractive historical cities of
the western world, in which around 23.000
students live and learn not only through strong
academic curricula, but also by taking part in
plenty extracurricular activities.
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Verona is also an active and valued research
university which is carrying out a large
investment in Doctoral Programmes, organized
into seven Graduate Schools strongly committed
to develop international cooperation
projects. It is a University deeply involved in
a compelling change, thanks to the diversity of
its students, its global outlook and its growing
research.
We welcome your interest in the University
and in our community. Please browse the
University of Verona’s web pages for information
on academic programs and on the beautiful
city and its enchanting surroundings.
Alessandro Mazzucco, Rector.
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Preface
Welcome to the University of Verona!
We hope that this guide can offer a valuable
amount of information to everybody
interested in studying in Italy (as an Erasmus
or as a full-time student) and - more particularly
- in our beautiful town, featuring a
young and dynamic university (a university
“on the move”), which is rapidly developing
robust ties with its territory and rapidly
strengthening its relations with an impressive
number of European and extra-European
universities.
The reader will find here short and alive
descriptions of the individual profile of the
different Faculties (Colleges) that contribute
to the teaching offer provided by our university,
of the services that are available to the
students, of different aspects of the campus-
life in Verona, as well as a general introduction
to the Italian academic system, from the
perspective of the European system of higher
education. We are confident that young (and
less young) readers might discover that there
are ways in which our teaching offer or research
profile fit their learning or research aspirations,
and choose for a study or research
period in Verona.
The guide is organized in such a way
to make further (more in-depth) information
easily accessible to the reader, providing him/
her with all useful links to relevant sub-parts
of the university website. We are one of the
few Italian universities to offer both a complete
Catalogue of Formative Activities (including
a course-catalogue) and an up-dated
Catalogue of our Research Products. Taken
together, these catalogues are likely to give
you a concrete idea about who we are and
what we stand for. The guide also provides
the reader with potentially useful additional
information concerning the major research

units within the university (Departments),
our six Doctoral Schools and the PhD programs
they offer, the possibility of running
a stage in the Verona region or of studying
abroad within university-funded international
exchange programs.
In licensing this guide, let me thank
the people who enthusiastically worked at it,
in the awareness that it will help us to improve
our communication potential in the
global academic market in which we live and
within which we are all engaged to create
new wonderful study and job opportunities
for the young generations.
If you find something is missing, please
help us to make this guide better and write to
us (coordinamento.comunicazione@ateneo.
univr.it or relazioni.internazionali@ateneo.
univr.it) with your suggestions!
Denis Delfitto
Rector’s Delegate for International Relations
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Verona is one of the most fascinating European
cities; as a town of art, it welcomes us
with its elegant monuments and the kindness of
the Venetian tradition.
Beloved since antiquity by scholars and
men of letters, the town was a ‘must’ for anybody
involved in top-level learning and used to
attract highly cultured foreigners to Italy thanks
to its artistic and natural beauties. The town enchants
thanks to its geographical position close
to the hills surrounding it along with the medieval
walls, and is crossed by the sinuous course of
the Adige river, which lively flows under ancient
monumental bridges.
The several “Lungadige”, i.e. ways following
the river and offering unforgettable landscapes,
are particularly picturesque in any season. Seat of
the most ancient library in the world, the “Biblioteca
Capitolare”, the town had enjoyed cultural
prestige since the Roman age.
The poet Catullo lived nearby in Sirmione,
on the banks of the Garda Lake. In the medieval
period, the members of the Della Scala
family, powerful lords of the town, adorned it
with marble monuments worthy of a capital and
proved to be enlightened sponsors of a cosmopolitan
court, which welcomed also the supreme
poet Dante Alighieri. It is from those Medieval
times that the cultural phenomena leading to
the 20th-century foundation of the University
of Verona emerged. The present university is a
young institution, whose prestige has been recognised
thanks to its quality of research and
teaching and to its opening to international relationships.
Spending a period of study or work at
the University of Verona is surely a stimulating
experience, able to enrich formation and to offer
precious chances in order to appreciate Italy and
its traditions.
William Shakespeare celebrated this town
as a unique and exclusive place where the poetry
of feeling can be fully expressed – “there’s no
world outside Verona walls…” (Romeo and Juliet,
III, iii) – today this city is lively and modern,
open to the world also thanks to its university.
Maria Fiorenza Coppari
Press Office Chief
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Index

Welcome to Verona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The town of Verona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The University of Verona . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
FACULTIES
– Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
– Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
– Humanities and philosophy . . . . . . . . 26
– Foreign languages and literatures . . . . 28
– Medicine and surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
– Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
– Mathematical, physical
and natural sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
– Motor and sport sciences . . . . . . . . . . 37
TEACHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
– The italian university system . . . . . . . 40
– BA courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
– MA and PHD courses . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
– Teaching in a foreign language . . . . . . 43
– On-line course catalogue . . . . . . . . . . 43
Services for students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
– Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Foreign students: how to enroll . . . . . . . 47
Language centre (CLA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Stage and vocational training . . . . . . . . . 48
Scholarships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Centre for disabled students . . . . . . . . . 52
Other services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Associations and student groups . . . . . . 54
Accommodation and Refectories . . . . . . 54
International relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Departments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
PHD studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
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The town of Verona
Verona is a town of Paleo-Venetian origins
lying on the banks of the river Adige. Its
first inhabitants were the Raethians, followed
by the Etruscans, who lived in the area till 89
BC, when the town started to take on Roman
features. Roman traces are now visible
in the Arena, built in the first century and,
among the many picturesque monuments of
the town, the “Arco dei Gavi”, “Ponte Pietra”,
“Porta dei Borsari”, “Porta dei Leoni”
and the Roman Theatre.
The Ostrogoth king Teodorico chose
Verona as seat of his kingdom and built
his Royal Palace on the surrounding hills.
Later, King Alboino made it the first Longobard
capital in Italy. When Desiderio, the
last Longobard king, was defeated by Charles
the Great, Charles’ son, Pipino, made Verona
his residence. In the Middle Ages, the town
became the seat of the Della Scala family. At
that time, it welcomed important artists such
as Giotto, Dante and Petrarca, thus turning
into a key cultural centre. Throughout the
Renaissance, Verona was part of the Republic
of Venice, thus sharing its artistic and social
magnificence.
The nobles of the Della Scala family
turned the town into an architectural and artistic
gem. Cultural activities – e.g. theatre,
music and literary debates – developed in the
aristocratic palaces, still present in the historic
centre of the town. Famous people, such
as Scipione Maffei, Ippolito Pindemonte,
Abramo Massalongo, along with many other
talented Italians, moved their first steps in
Verona offering their contribution to the cultural
history of the nation. After the falling of
the Republic of Venice and Napoleon’s arrival,
Verona and its territory became strategic
from a military and economic point of view.
In the first half of the 19th century, the town
was a military stronghold of the empire.
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The University of Verona
History in brief
At the beginning of the 1950s, a group of Catholic
intellectuals gave birth to the “Libera
Scuola Superiore di Scienze Storiche Ludovico
Antonio Muratori” in Verona, along with
the “Nova Historia” journal. That very group
suggested the foundation of a university in Verona
and their idea was turned into practice in
February 1959, when Prof. Giorgio Zanotto,
mayor of Verona, added to the agenda of the
Town Council “the institution of a university
school of Economics in Verona”. The Chamber
of Commerce and the Province supported
the project enthusiastically. Thus, the Free Faculty
of Economics was created, along with
a Consortium for the University in charge
of its management. In the summer of 1959,
the seat of the University was established at
Giuliari Palace, given by the countess Giuliari
Tusini and currently seat of the Rectorship.
Enrolments started and the opening ceremony
of the new faculty took place on November
1, 1959. However, the initiative was not
recognised by the government and the expectations
of both the local authorities and the
students were disappointed. The authorities
of the town started making all possible efforts
in order to change the situation and in 1963
the University of Padua acknowledged the faculty
of Economics as its detached branch. In
July 1963 the first graduation took place at
the newly born faculty in Verona. Later, Padua
decided to move to Verona also the detached
branches of Medicine and Education,
the last one developing into the current faculty
of Humanities and Philosophy. The whole
project giving birth to the University of Verona
had its final actualization in 1982, when
the governmental authorities acknowledged
that the University of Verona had its autonomy
under the State control. The University
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of Verona developed more and more, thanks
to the precious support and cooperation
of the representatives of the main public and
private institutions at governmental, regional
and local level, along with the contribution of
valid academics; as a result, it acquired its present
structure with its 8 faculties: Economics;
Law; Humanities and Philosophy; Foreign
Languages and Literatures; Medicine and
Surgery; Mathematical, Physical and Natural
Sciences; Education; Motor and Sport Sciences.
The University of Verona is located in two
important poles: “Veronetta”, with the Human
Sciences faculties, and “Borgo Roma”,
with the faculty of Medicine and Surgery.
Other seats are placed throughout the town,
such as the Faculty of Law and the courses for
the degree in Social Services, the Faculty of
Motor and Sport Sciences and the courses for
the degree in Enology at Villa Lebrecht in S.
Floriano of S. Pietro in Cariano (VR). Finally,
other corse are in Legnago (VR), Vicenza,
Bolzano, Trento, Ala (TN) and Rovereto. The
University of Verona is deeply linked to the
surrounding territory. As a matter of fact, reports
show that it is the first university in Italy
for private funding, a recognition which testifies
to the credibility it arouses among enterprises.
Its excellence is emphasized also by the
rank conquered in the list of the Great Universities,
i.e. those with a number of students
ranging between 20.000 and 40.000, where
Verona has gained the 4th position. Moreover,
it is famous for the quality of the services
for orientation, stages, international relations,
scholarships and taxes exemptions, multimedial
rooms, libraries, and centres of scientific
research etc., located in the several seats. The
University of Verona is therefore a vital centre
of research and culture, which harmonically
interacts with the community of Verona and
the net of Venetian Universities. Moreover, in
cooperation with the Authority for the Right
of Study, it offers services helping students
to live their experience of study fully: accommodation,
refectories, cultural and sport

activities. The main aspects contributing to
qualifying the University of Verona according
to European standards are (i) scientific
research, (ii) internationalization initiatives,
(iii) training courses, (iv) services to students
and (v) the promotion and implementation
of human, financial and structural resources.
Scientific research is developed through more
than 45 doctoral courses and through funding
resources amounting to € 3.052.000
for departments and institutes in 2008, €
2.400.000 for the studies and researches of
the University, and € 60.000 for the protection
of patents. Highly prestigious are “Joint
Projects”, i.e. the research projects developed
in cooperation with firms and organizations
and leading to the improvement of scientific
innovation and technical progress. Finally, the
University of Verona pays special attention to
Europe, particularly with reference to the actuation
of the communitarian policies regarding
technical research and development, for
which it invested € 1.744.548 in 2007.
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Faculties
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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
The faculty of Economics has been taking
part to Erasmus programs for years. We are
one of the main centres of a network of 55 faculties
of economics spread throughout Europe.
Moreover, we joined other programs,
especially in cooperation with universities in
Australia and the USA. As to mobility, we
count around 150 outgoing students with
139 scholarships, covering 409 months, i.e.
the equivalent of about 34 years. Several
professors of the faculty lecture in foreign
universities, mostly in UK and Eastern Europe;
one of them is currently teaching at the
University of Washington (D.C.). Moreover,
many other professors have systematic relationships
with foreign colleagues. Our Ph.D.
students usually spend a few months at foreign
universities, where they often get a second
graduation. Our faculty also welcomes
several foreign teachers, also for the courses
held in Vicenza, a seat where we run two undergraduate
programs and one graduate program,
all with a strong international outlook.
Six courses are offered in English.
Among the peculiarities of the faculty, we
highlight a relatively young but highly qualified
teaching staff and a strict connection
with the territory. The faculty of Economics
has been widely recognized for 50 years,
thanks to specific attention towards students,
along with a special interest in the institutions
and firms of the territory. This vocation
is testified by the running of more than 600
stages each year, carried out by our students
at institutions and firms.
Professors and Students who might be interested
in this faculty should consider the
several teaching options, the quality of our
courses, the attention paid to the evaluation
of results and the great amount of bibliographic
resources. Moreover, the beauty of our
town and its territory cannot be ignored.
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Among the main future initiatives which will
implement the internationalization process,
we would like to mention the enlargement of
the places dedicated to teaching activities (rooms
and locations for students) and research
(libraries and departments). The University is
currently building the Economics Pole in the
former “Caserma Santa Marta”, where new
rooms will be located and all departments
will be gathered in the same structure. Such
measures will improve the teaching quality,
by favouring the development of research as
well, since its effectiveness will improve thanks
to the contiguity of spaces and the sharing
of resources.
In the future we also intend (a) to focus even
further on the teaching offer for undergraduate
courses with a strong cultural and
methodological connotation (Business and
Enterprise Management) and (b) to develop
those graduate courses that can improve the
research activity carried out by the teaching
staff of the faculty. The innovation of the
courses dealing with enterprises and international
markets is part of this project, together
with the establishment of a new course in
Enterprise Direction, both held in Vicenza,
and the activation of courses taught in English.

FACULTY OF LAW
Since its early steps, the Faculty has focussed
on the framing of legal issues and institutes
by locating them within the European and
international dimension of the legal experience
on the one hand and, on the other
hand, by focusing on courses strongly characterised
– contentwise – by the attention
paid to economic and managerial phenomena,
which mostly constitute the object of the
legal regulation. The offer of a specific international
curriculum within the MA course
in Law is therefore in this perspective, along
with the courses linked to the vocation of the
town and the area of Verona towards international
commercial relations with foreign
countries (such as Right of Transport and
Logistics, Right of Tourism, etc…). The connection
with the reality of legal professions
is very close as well, in particular with the
Orders of Lawyers and with the Magistracy,
above all as far as it concerns the School for
Legal Professions, organized in cooperation
with the University of Trento.
As far as internationalization processes are
concerned, the faculty runs courses of English
and German legal lexicon, along with a
joint seminar on European Right, organized
each year in cooperation with the Faculty of
Law of the University of Salisbury. We also
run several exchange programs with 26 European
universities. Moreover, the faculty has
signed international agreements with extra-
European institutions of higher education
(Loma de Zamora, in Argentina, and Porto
Alegre, in Brazil). Forms of improvement of
the teaching offer in a foreign language are
currently in progress, along with new means
of promotion encouraging the participation
to Erasmus exchanges.
A foreign professor or student should choose
this faculty because it aims at becoming
a centre of promotion of authentically Eu-
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opean legal knowledge and competence, by
supporting the international and economic
vocation of the town, which has characterized
the faculty of Law since its foundation.
Indeed, we intend to create a generation of
jurists particularly interested in the dynamics
of the contemporary world, so as to face the
complexity of changes.
The faculty – strategically located in the historical
centre of Verona – has a balanced teaching
staff, as far as age is concerned, and is
characterised by an adequate ratio between
the number of professors and students, who
can take advantage of high level structures
for teaching activities and research.
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND
PHILOSOPHY
The faculty has recently started a scientific
cooperation with a network of French and
German speaking universities on the topic
“Hermeneutics: myth and image”, which
aims at allowing a teaching and research cooperation
for PhD courses. The teaching staff
of the faculty also runs cooperation programs
for PhD studies with Dutch universities
(Utrecht and Leiden) about issues related to
clinical linguistics (dyslexia) and theoretical
linguistics. Such programs have already led to
co-tutorship of doctorates and to the “joint
title” of Doctor of Research.
The Master course in History and Geography
of Europe is part of a network connecting
several universities, so that the title released
by the University of Verona is equivalent to
the one released by partner universities. The
faculty has been offering some courses in
English for some years, mostly attended by
students of Linguistics, Political Philosophy
and History of Philosophy, according to the
inter-subject methodology of the History of
Concepts. Several foreign professors – coming
from Holland, Germany, USA, France
and Norway – are invited to lecture in such
courses. Thanks to bilateral conventions, international
agreements with 36 European seats
are active. The current Erasmus mobility
program has led 63 foreign visiting students
to our faculty and an equal number of Italian
students are studying abroad. We also count
a great amount of exchanges with South
American Universities, such as those in Brazil,
Argentina and Paraguay, thus allowing
exchanges both of students and professors.
Furthermore, the faculty takes active part to
the exchange of students and staff following
the bilateral agreements of cooperation and
exchange with universities of North America.
Among the main features of the faculty, we

highlight the good relationships between professors
and students, allowing a direct, personal
contact. We also emphasize strong links
of professors to research and study teams at
national and international level, with evident
relapses on their teaching activity. The teamwork
is extraordinary: the team of professors
helps everybody to cooperate in a quiet and
positive climate, thanks to the fact that every
single member has scientific relationships
outside the university, thus allowing the implementation
of knowledge exchange in the
research areas.
Among the reasons why a foreign student
or a professor should choose this faculty, we
should not overlook the fact that it offers the
chance to deepen several aspects of the great
humanistic and classic tradition, in close
relationship with the most recent scientific
developments and often with a marked intersubject
perspective.
The faculty of Humanities is particularly proficient
in this area and offers in-depth com-
petence. The beauty of Verona as a city is also
to be taken into consideration.
As far as invited professors are concerned, the
University of Verona has acknowledged the
status of Visiting Scholar since 2007, a title
which can be exploited in their own universities.
Among undergoing projects in the area of internationalization,
there is the will to intensify
the invitations of foreign professors, in
order to lead them to choose the faculty for
a period of lectureship in Italy. We are also
working for the strengthening of the project
regarding the History of Concepts, e.g. the
individuation of a group of classic authors
read in translated version, such as Aristotle,
Euclid and others, through a teaching project
which can stir the interest of several European
countries, in order to build a homogeneous
teaching backdrop for European students
interested in this subject.
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FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
AND LITERATURES
The faculty was the first to present internationalization
activities within the Erasmus
program, by establishing a convention with
a German university. This implies different
kinds of contacts and cooperation activities
with foreign countries, involving particularly
professors and students. This Faculty has signed
agreements with 14 European countries:
Austria, Belgium. Switzerland, Germany,
Spain, Estonia, France, Hungary, Holland,
Portugal, Poland, Czech Republic and Great
Britain, totalling 72 partners. Students have
responded in a very positive way, in the aca-
demic year 2007/2008 we registered 247 outgoing
students and 82 visiting students.
In 2008/2009 there have been 163 outgoing
students, while 114 foreign students have
joined our faculty, thus showing high appreciation
by foreign students. The mobility of
professors is very frequent as well.
The good points of the faculty are linked to
the curricula offered, mostly the BA courses
in “Languages and Cultures of Tourism and
for International Trade”, and the MA in
“Languages for Commercial Communication
and Promotion of International Tourism”.
Such courses include also legal and
economic subjects, along with two foreign
languages and are completely or partially
offered in a foreign language, favouring the
improvement of linguistic competence in
specific subjects.

Among the reasons leading foreign students
and professors to join our university, we
count the seat itself and the town, but also
courses combining humanistic and legal-economic
subjects. Moreover, foreign students
are helped a lot by the delegate to internationalization,
the area coordinator, the seat
coordinator, all present in the faculty. A tradition
of closeness and attention to foreign
students is also widely recognized.
Our future projects involve the cooperation
with seats in English-speaking countries; indeed,
the faculty has already started exchanges
with Oxford, Cambridge and other English
universities, particularly with reference
to the mobility of students of MA courses.
Moreover, nine students of the PhD course
in Foreign Literatures and Science of Literatures
benefit of the co-tutorship. Such initiatives
improve the scientific cooperation and
are particularly important for the organization
of conferences and exchanges among the
teaching staff.
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FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY
As far as internationalization is concerned,
the faculty has 25 agreements active with European
Universities (Erasmus) and nine with
Extra-European institutes of higher education
(five in the USA, two in Australia and
two in Brazil).
In 2008 the faculty received 28 foreign students,
activating clinical tutorials in English
for the following courses: Surgery, Internal
Medicine, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Gynaecology.
This efforts are intended to assure
the welcoming of foreign English-speaking
students. Tutorials allow access to Clinics,
participation to meetings to discuss clinical
cases and the release of certifications attesting
the activities carried out. Besides, the access
to research labs is guaranteed both for basic
subjects (Physiology, Anatomy, Pathologic
Anatomy, General Pathology) and for Cli-
nics. We also promote formative activities in
English (workshops, stages, foreign lectures)
for the PhD courses organized by the faculty.
The faculty can boast an excellent student-tutor
relationship (1/1, maximum 1/2). The access
to the hospital departments, the research
laboratories, the library, the internet points
and the refectory contribute to making the
faculty even more appreciated and characterized
by high quality services.
A foreign student or lecturer might also choose
the faculty due to the accessibility to tutorials
and research laboratory activities held
in English.
Among the future projects of internationalization,
we can mention an area devoted to
seminaries or courses in English through the
portal of the faculty. We are also planning to
implement measures for outgoing students,
together with several learning agreements
with foreign faculties.
Over the last few years, evaluation agencies,
including the Directive Committee for the

Evaluation of Research of the MIUR, have
placed our faculty among the top five positions
of the list of Italian faculties according
to scientific production. This result is testified
to by the several publications on journals
with international prestige, dealing mainly
with meaningful aspects concerning neurophysiologic
and anatomic matters, along
with biochemistry and molecular biology,
the genetic basis of diseases, cellular and molecular
mechanisms of the biologic defences
and of the neoplastic transformation, pathogenesis
of infective diseases and other innovative
aspects of research in different fields of
clinical and experimental medicine and surgery
(vascular damage, thrombus-embolisms,
haematology diseases, endocrinology and
metabolism maladies, neurological diseases,
biological, clinical and social aspects of mental
disorders, general and clinical psychology,
gastroenterology-surgery, cardio-surgery and
surgery of the hearing and the maxillo-facial
apparatus).
The Research Catalogue of the University
shows that in the years 2004-2006 professors
of the faculty (in the 3–year-long period respectively
272, 279 and 306) published on
international journals (respectively 457, 443
and 556 articles). 302 permanent members
of the teaching staff are currently part of
the faculty of Medicine (78 full professors,
75 associate professors and 149 researchers),
along with an equal number of freelance researchers.
We obtained funding for our scientific research
from the MIUR and the European
Union, for a total sum of about € 1.5 millions,
and other funding from different Organizations
and from the Venetian Regional
Administration and the Ministry of Health
(including € 2.85 millions for a strategic program).
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
The faculty has been working for the development
of Erasmus exchanges for years, receiving
also students from foreign universities.
The formative activities have been diversified
in order to offer courses in a foreign language.
Several conventions involve foreign universities
with exchanging lecturers and students,
which is particularly important, considering
the internationalization of research.
One of the main features of the faculty is the
chance students are given to take active part
in their learning process through projects of
stage directly on the territory, so as to link
theory to practice. These programs are led by
a member of the teaching staff who works
as a tutor. Erasmus students can be followed
in their mother tongue as well, in order to
be helped and have the chance to meet directly
the formative culture developed in the
different territorial institutions. In so doing,
they can see how the theories of education
sciences are implemented here. They are finally
allowed to take part also in workgroups.
It is extremely important to emphasize that,
thanks to a specific faculty decision, formative
training can be carried out also abroad. A
foreign student or lecturer should be attracted
by this faculty first of all due to its welcoming
peculiarity, and also due to the possibility
to access programs of education sciences
that have not been rigidly pre-structured.
Indeed, students can choose a program of
study where they can negotiate the structure
of the training received in the country of origin
with the one of the hosting country, and
take advantage of the possibility to gain “experiential
learning”, as it is generally called.
Several institutions on the territory allow foreign
students to come into contact not only
with the formal but also with the informal
culture through projects of training, by offering
to students to get rooted to experience,

instead of approaching only the theoretical
dimension of knowledge. Among the future
projects of internationalization, we recall the
development of the School of Doctoral Studies
in Philosophy and Humanities, which
largely depends on our faculty. We welcome
and favour links to scholars coming from
all over the world and involved in different
subjects, with a particular interest not only
for European and North-American countries
but also for Africa, Asia and South-America.
We also welcome lecturers coming from
North-America and are about to sign a convention
with some French universities, which
will involve the presence of French scholars
in our degree programs. In particular, we are
organizing lessons for the MA courses, with
the hope that this will encourage also French
students to join our university.
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FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL,
PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES
Several activities of internationalization,
mainly pertaining to the Erasmus-Socrates
program, are currently run by the faculty in
cooperation with European universities in
England, France, Holland, Spain and Germany,
above all in the field of biotechnology.
Such activities include the possibility to
attend courses in English, mainly for MA
courses, but also the chance to enter an international
network of Schools of Doctoral Studies,
where the level of internationalization is
ensured by research projects at national and
European level.
The faculty of natural sciences has focused
its attention on computer sciences, biotechnologies
and applied maths. An MA course
in Viticulture and Oenology, typical activities
of the territory of Verona, was activated
around three years ago. The interest is mainly
devoted to MA courses, since we tried to link
the MA training to research projects related
to the computer sciences and in the fields of
viticulture, mathematics and bio-technology.
The students interested in the development
of projects in computer security, analysis of
proteins, oenology and advanced viticulture,
in maths and in the creation of mathematic
models of phenomena will find the best
courses in Verona.
Foreign students and lecturers can choose
this faculty because it is young: the average
age of the teaching staff is 42, i.e. lower than
the average of the faculties of Natural Sciences
in Italy and, in general, of all the Italian
faculties. Less than 20% of the teaching staff
comes from Verona, which means that many
contacts are in act with Italian and foreign
universities, thanks
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to the former history of teachers. The atmosphere
is very welcoming and open-minded,
the relationship with professors is excellent.
At present the teaching staff totals about 100
people between researchers and professors.
We aim at accepting a limited number of talented
students, mostly for the MA courses.
Laboratories are particularly rich, large and
of high quality, so that students can practice
more than in other similar faculties.
Among future projects of internationaliza-
tion, we intend to recruit foreign teaching
staff through direct appointment. Moreover,
we are trying to obtain the joint recognition
of degrees for both MA and BA courses, above
all involving Bordeaux with reference to
viticulture and oenology. As for biotechnologies,
we are trying to set up links to German
and English universities, and we are looking
for cooperation agreements with English and
French universities for the computer area.

FACULTY OF MOTOR AND SPORT
SCIENCES
The faculty has activated traditional activities
for the internationalization process, mainly
linked to Erasmus exchanges, which are demonstrated
by the current presence of many
students in several European seats, from Portugal
to Germany, England, France, Spain
and Hungary, generally with a good level
of students’ satisfaction. Among the good
points of the faculty, we consider its “young
age”, not only with reference to the year of
its foundation, but also to the average age of
the teaching staff, which is absolutely lower
than the national average. Professors are trained
in other faculties, such as Medicine and
Surgery or Education, only few come directly
from the faculty of Sport Sciences. The faculty
is extremely pragmatic, able to solve
problems and recognised as one of the best
among the 30 of this kind in Italy. As far as
research initiatives are concerned, the faculty
is leading for adapted motor activities, the research
in the field of sport and on the motor
control. Its teaching staff is usually linked to
sport national teams, thanks also to past activities,
while others come from foreign universities.
Foreign lecturers have contributed
to widen not only students’ knowledge but
also the one of teachers already present in the
faculty. The teaching structures are well coordinated:
rooms, sports ground, a track for
athletics with 8 lanes, a sport palace, small
gyms for martial arts, apparatus rooms. Students
find themselves in an ideal setting. The
faculty is adequately internationalized since
many professors spent some years abroad;
indeed, sport faculties were founded abroad
much earlier than in Italy. Within the staff
we count some English native speakers, while
some of the students are foreigners. Among
our future projects, we highlight the improvement
of the activities connected to the doctoral
courses, so as to create the ideal condi-
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tions for the development of research in the
motor field. The professors who have worked
abroad still have good relationships and keep
on cooperating with foreign universities.
Many researches focus on sport physiology,
sport activities and motor control. Among
the partners, we count the University of
Manchester and the Department of Neurosciences
of the University of Geneva. Moreover,
important cooperation agreements have
been started with universities in Australia,
New Zealand and in the United States. We
particularly highlight an interesting project
regarding sport training, in cooperation with
the University of Hamilton (Canada). The faculty
nourishes a special interest for matters
connected to the third age, with projects shared
at European level, and courses to train
instructors for the physical activity of the elderly.
Some activities have already started,
while others are about to be set up, in direct
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TEACHING OFFER
The Italian university system
Since 1999, university studies have been reorganized
in Italy, so as to respond to the targets
of the “Bologna process”. The university
system is now articulated into 3 cycles: the
Bachelor level degree, i.e. the academic title
of 1st cycle, allows access to the MA; the Master
level degree, i.e. the main title of the 2nd
cycle, is necessary in order to be admitted to
PhD courses, giving the title of Doctor of
Research. The system also offers other academic
courses with their corresponding titles.
BA courses. They are Degree Courses, aiming
at assuring students adequate skills in general
scientific methods and contents, together
with the acquisition of specific professional
competences. The necessary requirement is
the final high school certificate, released af-
ter 13 years of education and after the corresponding
state exams, or a comparable foreign
title. Courses last 3 years. In order to
get the degree, students have to acquire 180
credits and discuss a thesis; they can also be
required to spend a training period. The degree
offers the access to competitions for public
employment, to work and to regulated
professions, along with MA courses.
MA courses. The studies include:
A) Courses of Master degree: they offer advanced
training for the practice of high
qualified activities in specific sectors.
Only students with a BA graduation
or a foreign comparable title are admitted
to most courses; admission is accepted
only according to the specific requirements
decided by each university;
courses last two years; students acquire
120 credits and discuss a final thesis.
In 2004 the name of the final title changed
from Specialised Degree to Master degree.

Some courses (such as Medicine and Surgery,
Dentistry and Dental prosthesis, and
Law) have been called “Courses of Master
level at unique cycle”: access requirement
is the high school certificate or a foreign
comparable title; admission is subordinated
to a test; studies last 5 years and 300
credits are required (6 years and 360 credits
for Medicine and Surgery). All master
level degrees offer the access to competitions
for public employment, PhD, work
and regulated professions.
B) First level University Master courses. They are
specializing scientific courses or course of
continuous high training; access is possible
only for graduated people or foreigners
with equivalent titles; admission
might however be subordinated to other
requirements too. Such courses last at least
one year (60 credits). These courses do
not give access to PhD studies.
Third level courses
They include:
A) PhD courses: they aim at the acquisition
of a correct methodology for advanced
scientific research, by adopting innovative
methodologies and new technologies.
They can require periods of research abroad
and attendance to research laboratories.
Admission is subordinated to the MA
Degree (or an equivalent foreign title) and
to a competition; courses last 3 years. The
PhD student has to write an original thesis
and discuss it during the final exam.
B) Specialization Courses: they aim at providing
knowledge and abilities for the practice
of high level professional activities,
especially in the fields of medical, clinical
and surgical specialisations. A Master level
Degree (or an equivalent foreign title) is
required for the admission, along with the
success in the competition. Courses last
according to the disciplinary field. The
Certificate of Specialisation gives the title
of “Specialist”.
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C) Second level University Masters: They are
scientific further trainings or courses of
permanent and recurrent high training;
access is possible only for people with a
Master level Degree or equivalent titles
for foreigners. Such courses last at least
one year (60 credits).
University Formative Credits: all courses are
structured in credits. Each university formative
credit corresponds to 25 hours of students’
work, including individual study. The
average quantity of academic work carried on
by a full time student is conventionally established
in 60 credits.
Academic titles: the 1st cycle degree awards
the title of “Bachelor level Doctor”; the 2nd
cycle degree awards the title of “Master level
doctor”; doctoral courses lead to the title of
“Doctor of Research”.
The Italian University System
Mast er 1st level
Mast er
2nd lev el
1st cycle (3 ye ars )
2nd cycle (2 ye ars )
pre -univ ersity training (1 3 ye ars)
(3 ye ars)

1st cycle courses
Each faculty offers courses of 1st cycle, or
“Bachelor level courses”. The list is published
on the university website: http://www.univr.it/ma
in?ent=offerta&tcs=N&lang=en. For further information,
please check the section “Services for
Students”.
2nd and 3rd cycle courses. Graduate
studies
Each faculty offers courses of 2nd cycle, or
“Master level courses”. The list is published
on the university website: http://www.univr.it/
main?ent=offerta&tcs=S&lang=en. The list of courses
of “Master level degree at unique cycle” is
available at http://www.univr.it/main?ent=offerta&tcs=
SU&lang=en. The list of courses of ”University
Masters of 1st and 2nd level” is available at
http://www.univr.it/main?ent=offerta&tcs=M&lang=en
The list of the Schools of Specialization”
is available at http://www.univr.it/
main?ent=offerta&tcs=SS&lang=en . For further information
on access modalities and enrol-
ment, please check the section “Post-Lauream
Area”, Office of Schools of Specialization
and State Exams. As far as Doctoral courses
are concerned, please visit the “RESEARCH”
section.
Formative offer in a foreign language
Each year some courses are taught in English,
French, Spanish or German, as part of specific
projects of the university. In the years
2007-2008, 34 courses were run in a foreign
language. The list of courses is available on
the university website at http://www.univr.it/main
?ent=catdoc&id=767&idDest=1&sServ=142&serv=29&ssS
erv=26&lang=en.
On-line course catalogue
The on-line catalogue with all the courses
activated by the University of Verona is available
at http://www.univr.it/main?ent=catalogoofferta&
page=catalogoOfferta&lang=en. Thanks to a search
engine, courses of interest can be found by
selecting them according to faculty, time of
activation, lecturer or through keywords.
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Services for students
Study help
Study Help Area
Tel. +39 045 8028588
e-mail: servizio.orientamento@ateneo.univr.it
The Study Help area is the first point of reference
for students requiring information
about the formative offer of the university,
along with procedures of pre-enrolment and
enrolment and services activated by the university.
The presence on the territory is commonly
carried out through several initiatives,
such as:
Open days, devoted to the orientation, in order
to let high school students visit the different
faculties, attend the introduction offered
by professors and visit the university premises
with a guide.
The Cicero Project, carried out in cooperation
with the Regional Administration, turns the
teaching offer of the Venetian universities
into a telematic project, available on line at
www.regione.veneto.it/cicerone. Morevoer,
the section “Univenetorienta” aims at providing
students with orientation tests, offering
advice about post-diploma study programs
responding to students’ needs, so as to lead
to a more conscious choice in case of matriculation.
Welcoming students Service: the service is activated
in Summer during pre-enrolment and
enrolment time, in order to offer support to
the students who enter university, also thanks
to senior students trained for the purpose, by
informing them on the new formative offer,
the enrolment procedures and the services
activated by the university and the ESU-
ARDSU in Verona.

OrientaNews Project: the project aims at offering
information on dates, administrative
deadlines, announcements of competitions,
scholarships, tax exemptions, loans, students’
mobility, trainings, stages and seminars, initiatives
of orientation and other information
useful to the university life by sending two
monthly newsletters, the former devoted to
the students enrolled at the University of Verona,
the latter for high school students.
Seminars concerning the methods of study: they
are organized at the beginning of the first
academic term, in order to provide students,
in particular first-year ones, with the necessary
strategies to acquire an adequate methodology
for the university study and the preparation
of exams.
Orientation events: each year the university is
present with a stand at some of the most representative
orientation events at national level.
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Graduate studies (Post-lauream)
Graduate Studies Area
Tel. +39 045 842 5216 / 5215
e-mail: segreteria.master@ateneo.univr.it
segreteria.scuolespec@ateneo.univr.it
The area is responsible for: (a) the Schools
of Specialisation, (b) the organization of sessions
of State Exams for the qualification to
the different professions; (c) the administrative
part of Masters, (d) Further Training and
professional refresher courses, and (e) the coordination
and the administrative-financial
management of formative activities funded
by the European Social Fund, the Venetian
Regional Administration and other organizations.
Foreign students: how to enroll
Students’ Secretary – Service for foreign students
Tel. +39 045 802 8167 / 8680
e-mail / web site
Students coming from non-EU countries
and living abroad are required to show the
pre-enrolment request to the Italian Diplomatic
Office abroad by the deadlines set by
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs each year.
Students coming from EU or from non-EU
countries but living in Italy, are supposed to
pre-enrol via the web site www.univr.it. They
also have to fill in the first-year students questionnaire
(which is not requested for non-
EU students living abroad). In order to enrol
to the University of Verona, the following
documents are needed:
- high school diploma in original version (at
least 12 years of school)
- declaration released by the Italian Embassy
of the country where students got the high
school diploma, with corresponding legalization
and translation of document into
Italian.
Such documents have to be presented to the
Foreign Office.
Enrolment has to be concluded by 31/10
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each year; alternatively, students can complete
their enrolment by 15/12, paying a fine of
€ 50.
Web site: http://www.univr.it/main?ent=catdoc
&id=1041&idDest=1&sServ=168&serv=47
Language centre
Language Centre (CLA)
Tel. +39 045 8028704
e-mail: segreteria.cla @ateneo.univr.it
web site http://fermi.univr.it/cla
It is an inter-faculty centre, offering support
activities for the teaching and learning
of modern languages, including Italian for
Foreigners. It organizes cycles of tutorials
with the purpose of favouring the acquisition
of the skills required for each level of
competence, according to the framework of
the Council of Europe (Common European
framework of reference for Languages). It releases
the certifications of linguistic competence;
it promotes the production of original
didactic material and innovative procedures
of assessment; it promotes and organizes training
courses and linguistic/didactic refresher
courses (teacher training).
Stage and vocational training
Stage and Vocational training Office
Tel. +39 045 802 8287 / 8787 / 8184
e-mail: ufficio.stage@ateneo.univr.it
The University of Verona offers its undergraduates
and newly-graduates the chance to experience
a stage at firms, organizations and
professional offices, with which the university
has stable cooperative relationships. The
office is responsible for the search of stage
offers by firms and for the activation and management
of curricular and extra-curricular
stages: the former aiming at the fulfilment of
university training, the latter devoted to the
acquisition of specific professional skills and
favouring the placement of post-graduates in
the working field.

The university also offers the chance to train
with several organizations of national level,
thanks to the Training Programs agreements
promoted by the CRUI Foundation (the
Conference of Deans of Italian Universities).
Stage Area (“Spazio Stage”)
In order to favour the spreading of formative
and orienting training, along with the
need to meet the request and offer of stage
opportunities, the University of Verona adds
an area of virtual communication to the daily
front office activity. “Stage Area” is a computer
system for the management of the stage
offers coming from firms, organizations and
professional offices and from the requests
expressed by undergraduates and newlygraduates.
This helps the management of the
service offered by the office to get easier and
simpler, by favouring a more effective and
quicker “matching” of requests and stage offers.
Hence, more and more requests are met.
Stages abroad
The chance to carry out a stage abroad is offered
mainly through the programs promoted
by the CRUI Foundation, in cooperation
with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
Italian Commerce Chamber abroad, and also
through the Erasmus Placement and the Leonardo
program, aimed to undergraduates
and newly graduates.
Vocational training
Together with ESU Ardsu, the University of
Verona runs initiatives to favour the access
of undergraduates and graduates to work, by
promoting their knowledge of the structures
and logic of the work market, and by favouring
chances of direct meeting with representatives
of the productive realities, such as: (a)
Vocational training seminars, aiming to support
the participants in the discovery of the
work realities; (b) Professional Workshops,
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allowing students to learn the features, skills
and career paths of specific professions; (c)
Career Days, favouring meetings with firm
representatives to provide students with a
direct contact with the work realities and to
create relationships for the development of
cooperation agreements with the working
field.
Fixo project - Training and innovation
for the Employment
Being part of the Fixo project – Training and
innovation for the Employment, organized
by the Ministry of Work and Social Security
– the University of Verona promotes 180
stages, called “trainings of work access”, aimed
exclusively to students who are about to
graduate and to graduates. Such courses are
characterized by a particular focus on “hitting
the target”, with reference to the needs
of candidates, to increase the chances of employment.
Scholarships
Area of Right to Study and Vocational Training
Tel. +39 045 802 8711
e-mail: ufficio.dirittostudio@ateneo.univr.it
Economic facilities and other services
The Area deals with academic policies supporting
students during their whole formative
path. It promotes merit through specific
economic and financial support, and establishes
a link with firms, organizations and external
institutions, in order to offer students
who are about to graduate and to graduates
chances of professional access through tools
of vocational training.
In order to access facilities, foreign students
coming from non-EU countries are considered
“non-residential”, notwithstanding their
place of residence in Italy, except when their
family lives in Italy.
Up to 3% of the regional resources addres-

sed to the scholarships for first-year students
(Italian, EU and non-EU students) is generally
reserved to the non-EU students who
enrol to the first year of any course. In the
case of students coming from particularly
poor countries, the evaluation of the economic
condition is made on the basis of a
certification of the Italian Diplomatic Representation
in the country of origin, attesting
that the student does not belong to a family
of high income or high social level (see table
at http://www.univr.it/benefici (LIST OF DE-
VELOPPING COUNTRIES).
Incentives for praiseworthy students
Praiseworthy students, including those with
foreign citizenship, are helped thanks to the
exemption of the first instalment of fees.
Full-time students enrolled at the first year
of undergraduate and graduate courses who
have totalled at least 50 credits by the 30/09
of each year will get a reduction on the se-
cond instalment of the taxes for the second
year. The benefit will be given through reimbursement
or through reduction till the expiration
of the total amount of the due charges.
The University can awards benefits to those
students who graduate within the terms of
normal duration of undergraduate and graduate
courses and who will later enrol to a
Master course, to Schools of Specialisation for
legal Professions or to Schools of Specialisation
of the Health Area. Benefits are awarded
through reimbursement or through reduction
till the expiration of the total amount of
the charges due for the first academic year of
the course following the graduation.
“Give them credit!”
The University promotes (a) financial loans
for up to € 6.000 to students enrolled in university
courses of all levels, without further
guarantees for the payment of fees or university
charges, (b) Erasmus programs, (c) the
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purchase of notebooks, and (d) the payment
of costs linked to the “non-residential” location,
such as safety and/or estate agency costs.
Psychological help
Palazzo Giuliari
Via dell’Artigliere, 8
The service, offered in cooperation with the
Don Mazza Institute, is free of charge and
allows students to test their method of study,
to understand and remove possible stumbling
blocks and anxiety, and to be helped in
the planning of their future career.
Centre for people with disability
Centre for people with disability
Tel. +39 045 802 8786 / 8593
e-mail: centro.disabili@univr.it
The Centre offers several services and aims at
favouring the integration of the disabled within
the university context, by helping him/
her with the attendance of lectures. Among
the several services, it offers escorting, specialized
tutorship, administrative and bureaucratic
support, transport, alternative didactic
material, personalized exams and other services
to help such students throughout their
study path.
The Centre also operates in order to help
the disabled to sit the entry test, thanks to
experts of Braille transcription, interpreters
of the Sign Language, and special computer
tools. The Centre cooperates with all the
university structures in order to simplify the
student’s obligations.
Other services
Sustainable mobility
Thanks to “Sustainable Mobility”, the University
of Verona favours means of lower
impact on the environment and on man
and promotes the use of public or private
collective transport, in order to help reduce

pollution causes and accidents, as required
in several agreements and protocols at international
level. Moreover, it aims at reducing
the space used by transport means. Among
the measures for students, we highlight two
covered parks for bicycles, free of charges and
protected by controlled access with dedicated
badges.
European Computer Drivers Licence
The University of Verona offers all students
the chance to get the European Licence for
Computers (Ecdl - European Computer Drivers
Licence). This opportunity is part of a
wider project permitting students to attend
computer courses for beginners; the syllabus
of such courses focuses also on cultural
aspects of computer sciences and on practical
aspects, necessary for the use of modern computers.
Each student can sit the seven tests
and get the ECDL by paying a fixed charge
to the University. They can sit for the ECDL
exams at the test centre of their faculty or at
the centre of the Department of Computer
Sciences. For further information about the
test centre of the university and about programs
and exams, please check the website
www.ecdl.univr.it
Service of e-learning of the University
The e-learning service of the University, active
since 01/10/2008, promotes cooperative
learning, which has several integrated components.
Its target is to allow students to attend
the virtual community of the University
and access the contents made available
by the professors of the different courses. The
service fulfils also the expectations of the teaching
staff, since it allows them to enrich
their teaching offer by means of multi-media
tools, forums, chats, quizzes, and questionnaires
and by providing a variety of cooperative
activities, helping students in their ideal
formative path. The service, intended for the
integrations of the systems of the University,
is available at http://elearning.univr.it.
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Associations and Student groups
At the University of Verona there are several
associations and student groups, providing
conferences, parties, support measures
for freshers, foreign student welcoming, radio,
TV, cinema and much more. Gathered
around the Table of Associations, these activities
enliven the experiences of the students
of the University of Verona. Web site: www.
univr.it. Section Radio&Community.
The service of ESU (Regional organization
for the right to study)
ESU A.R.D.S.U - Services to the Student Area
Via dell’Artigliere, 9 Verona
Tel. 045 8052861
e-mail: servizi@esu.vr.it – www.esu.vr.it
Courses of italian organized by ESU A.R.D.S.U
Courses of Italian language and culture at
different levels are organized each year in Au-
gust in order to help foreign students enter
the university of Verona and to favour exchange
programs with foreign Universities.
Loans to Students
The fiduciary loan, called ““Unicredit ad Honorem”,
in cooperation with Unicredit Bank-
ESU A.R.D.S.U. of Verona, ensures students
higher professional, scientific and cultural
training, by giving back the obtained sum
thanks to the professional and social position
offered by studies. Students will be able to
receive a loan, awarded each year, for all the
duration of the course of study (maximum 3
years). For further information: ufficio.prestiti@ateneo.univr.it
Accommodation
ESU A.R.D.S.U – office of Administration of accommodation
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The ESU A.R.D.S.U – i.e. the regional organization
for the right to study – offers 350
places of accommodation in modern structures
located close to the different University
premises. The service is awarded from October
to July and the place is allotted through
competition to all “non-residential” students
enrolled at the University of Verona, the
Academy of Arts and the Music school “E.
F. Dall’Abaco”, depending on merit and income.
The competition is held in July and
August each year. Both freshers and non-freshers
can take part in the competition.
Summer residences
Students who already have an accommodation
can extend their permanence for the
period August-September, by presenting a
written request each year by 15/03.
Service of accommodation search/offer
The ESU A.R.D.S.U has entrusted ISU s.r.l
(International Students Union) with selec-
ting requests, providing information on availability
and accommodation offers:
ISU Verona
Via Campofiore, 17 – Verona
Tel +39 045 8034563
e-mail: accomodation@isuverona.it
web site: www.isuverona.it
Refectories
The restaurant services of the ESU
A.R.D.S.U. offer a great variety of choices
and quality of meals, also with special menus
to satisfy the different cultural and religious
needs, with specific attention to those who
suffer from alimentary intolerances.
Entrance to refectories is permitted only if in
possess of the “ESU card”, the new rechargeable
card, which can be used also as VISA
Electron credit card and which allows access
to all ESU A.R.D.S.U. facilities and services.
Restaurant rates. They are usually fixed ac-

cording to requirements of income and merit
and depending on the typology of the meal
chosen. They vary from a minimum of €
1.40 to a maximum of € 5.20.
“S. Francesco” – Cultural Pole of Veronetta.
It has over 400 seats, provides services of pizzeria
with wood-burning oven and bar service.
Address: Viale dell’Università, 4 Tel. 045
8026084.
“Le Grazie” – Scientific Pole of Borgo Roma.
It has over 500 seats, provides services of traditional
restaurant and offers grill service.
The Bar service with more than 20 seats inside
and ca.120 outside is about to be activated.
Address: Strada Le Grazie, 8; Tel. 045
583324.
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
International Relations Office
tel. +39 045 8028591
e-mail:relazioni.internazionali@ateneo.univr.it
The University of Verona has started a process
of internationalization which involves
all activities, from teaching to research, and
which is considered one of the key aspects
of its strategic plan and mission. The development
policy of the University of Verona
is implemented through the training of students
and the competence of professors and
researchers, structuring their activities in a
ever more complex context.
The University of Verona has signed several
bilateral agreements of international cooperation
at scientific and teaching level, with
universities not only in Europe but also in
Africa, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Brazil,
Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador,
India, Mexico, and in United States.
Among the internationalization projects, the
International Relations Office aims at the
publication, promotion and management of
programs of internationalization and support
of the teaching offer in a foreign language, in
order to provide students with a higher number
of courses taught in English, French, Spanish
and German in the different faculties.
COOPERINT PROGRAM
The Cooperint program (INTernational CO-
OPERation) offers financial resources for international
cooperation programs, in order
to encourage the mobility of professors, researchers,
PhD students and undergraduates of
the University of Verona and to increase the
presence of Visiting Professors and Scholars
in our university.
ERASMUS
Among the European initiatives, the University
of Verona takes part in the Erasmus program,
which offers the chance to all European
undergraduates to spend a period of study
in a foreign university legally recognized by
his/her own institution of higher education.
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The program is the most established and financed
European activity; it allows the University
of Verona to offer 700 places each
year for Universities located in 23 different
countries. Each student receives a contribution
of € 200 per month from the European
Community during his/her stay abroad, depending
on the months spent in the foreign
institution; in addition, a monthly contribution
is provided also by the University of
Verona itself.
ERASMUS PLACEMENT
The new Erasmus Placement program aims
at favouring the mobility of young workers
throughout Europe, thanks to stages at firms
or training / research centres in one of the
European Countries taking part in the program.
Hence, students can obtain specific
competences and better understanding of
the socio-economic culture of the welcoming
country. The European Community funds
the formative training through mobility
scholarships.
WORLDWIDE STUDY PROGRAM
The Worldwide Study program sustains the
students’ mobility in extra-European countries
and allows selected students to spend a
period of study at universities of the United
States, Australia, Brazil and Mexico, since we
have signed agreements of cooperation with
them. The exams passed at the foreign seat
will be recognized al the end of the period of
study abroad. The university funds mobility
scholarships for this program; the amount of
money awarded to each student varies according
to the university of destination and the
months the student spends abroad.
TOEFL
The Universities of the United States and Australia
require international students to demonstrate
their linguistic competence through
the TOEFL certification - Test of English
as Foreign Language. In order to promote
and encourage students to sit for such exam,
the International Relation Office contributes
economically to the total or partial coverage

of the fees for the TOEFL exam at the Language
Centre of the University (CLA).
MARCO POLO PROGRAM
The University of Verona took part in the
CRUI “Marco Polo” Program for the first
time in 2005; the program aims at attracting
Chinese students to Italian Universities according
to an agreement of inter-governmental
cooperation Italy-China.
EURAXESS
Researcher in Motion is the solution for the
researchers who are planning a period of rese-
arch abroad and require information on how
to carry out their project. The University
took part in the project in 2005 and became
Mobility Centre, which constitutes a point
of reference for the researchers and aims at
offering support and practical information
and at keeping or creating contacts with the
European seats members of the consortium.
It also offers information concerning: visa,
residence and work permits, tax duties, health
assurances, daily and cultural life of the
country. All the required information on the
European Euraxess project is available online
as well.
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RESEARCH
The Unit for the Planning and Financial Management
of Research Projects provides information
about programs and competition
announcements for the funding of research
projects and assures the necessary assistance
by supporting professors in the development
of projects and proposals. Moreover, it spreads
information concerning the main national
programs of support to scientific research.
It develops and implements the service about
the funds for research of the European Union
and other international funding organizations.
Moreover, the University of Verona has
enacted a contact centre between firms and
organizations called Liaison Office, in order
to manage the relations with non-academic
productive entities.
The main functions of the office are: (a)
the promotion and spreading of the results
of the university research and their use for
firms and organizations; (b) the exploitation
of the opportunities for research in technology,
which will generate and sustain new industrial
units; (c) the strengthening of links
with industry and the chance to develop new
technologies, research personnel and structures
available to firms; (d) support to researchers
in recognizing the commercial implications
of their discoveries; (e) the creation of
enterprises within the University (Spin off);
and finally (f) development of procedures of
patenting of products/services deriving from
research. Moreover, in order to promote the
scientific competence of the academic staff,
a Research Catalogue of the University of
Verona has been created, by collecting and
regularly updating the data related to the
products, projects, laboratories, equipments,
groups and topics of research.
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DEPARTMENTS
Department of Enterprise Studies
The Department of Enterprise Studies was
activated in 2006, in Vicenza. It is an interdisciplinary
department which studies economic
and legal topics, along with those connected
to political economy and business. Its
targets are the research concerning the issues
of development and affirmation of enterprises
in the global market. In particular, there
is an observatory on the economy of Vicenza,
focusing on the study of the changes occurred
over the last 8 years among the enterprises of
Vicenza and on how they have invested in
research and development. The Department
runs cooperation agreements with international
universities for the exchange of students
and professors, such as The University
of Tennessee (Kroxville), North Florida Uni-
versity, and also several European universities
in Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland,
Spain, France, Finland, Poland, and Turkey.
Department of Education
The research topics of the pedagogic area are:
educative and formative role of books for
children; listening to children and young people;
education and politics; linguistic education;
gender differences; the body in the
intercultural communication; pedagogy of
sport and motor activities; identity and tasks
of general pedagogy and of philosophy of
education; theoretical education, ethics and
aesthetics; adults education, work and professional
ethics; political and religious education;
pedagogy of ecology; caring; education
to citizenship of involvement; training
through reflexive practices; epistemology and
didactics of intercultural pedagogy; interreligious
dialogue; intercultural education
in the family; intercultural communication;

globalization and identity; education to the
resolution of conflicts; experience, memory
and oral tradition; education and model of
traditional care; religious language and didactic-pedagogic
communicability; relationship
between pedagogy-theology; educative
religious communication and kindergartens;
the pedagogic thought of R. Guardini; cooperation
to development and self-activation
of local communities; history of schools and
educative institutions in the 19th and 20th
centuries; peace and education to peace; educative
institutions in the 20th century Verona;
youth associations; catholic women and
educative involvement; the condition of old
people in history; the education of deaf and
dumb people; cinema for education; young
people and doping; training for experts of
sport and motor activities; multi-medial languages
for the adults’ education; music-therapy;
art-therapy; special pedagogy in Europe:
the state of the art; mental disability and
reading competence; educative planning in
contexts outside school; human education wi-
thin religious communities; religion teaching;
didactic technologies for education; methods
and techniques of evaluation in the formative
field; e-learning for adult learning and support
to university teaching; relationship between
school and territory; relationship between
school-family: problems and perspectives; the
process of pedagogic consultancy to educative
institutions according modalities of researchaction;
the evaluation of the quality of the
educative institutions.
The research topics of the sociological area
are the following: the quality of social and
health services; models of research with mixed
qualitative and quantitative techniques;
Delphi technique and derived; Application of
advanced statistical techniques; communities
and the community work (spaces of shared
good); associative movement of self-reciprocal
help and reciprocal care; family and social
private associations; participation in associative
structures and social capital; family
and welfare policies; primary social networks
and community care; promotion of the social
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capital and connectivity of social networks;
identity construction in the complex society;
structures and tasks of the family in a historical
perspective; relationship among social
policies, systems of services and family; social
consequences, actors and cultures of ICT;
internet and webmaster; mobile communication;
News on the European TLC; cultural
associationism; theatre and culture participation;
the Italian TV system; neo-functionalist
analysis of culture and of the services for didactic.
The Masters offered by the department are:
Master in intercultural competence and management;
Master in cultural mediation.
Department of English, German and Slavic
Studies
The English section of the Department of
English, German and Slavic Studies organizes
the research activities of professors and
researchers in the field of (a) English Lan-
guage and Linguistics, (b) English literature
(c) English-speaking countries, (d) American
language and literature.
The research activity of the department is
developed both at national and international
level as testified to by several conferences,
seminars and publications. As far as the
research project on Right and Literature is
concerned, the journal, “Polemos, Right and
Culture” has been set up. The department
also organized an International Conference
on Global English and is part of a project
titled “Dictionaries, Handbooks and Words
among languages, cultures and ideologies”,
in cooperation with the universities of Turin,
Milan (State university), Catania and Bologna,
our research unit being the unit “The
English Lexicon across cultural identities and
textual genres”. We ran also (a) the seminar
“The concept of power in the Renaissance”,
in cooperation with the Literary Society of
Verona and Verona Poetry 2009; (b) the International
Conference on Bioethics, bio-

ight and literature. We published the volume
“Practising Equity, Addressing Law: equity in
law and literature”, Winter, Heidelberg, and
a monographic number of the journal Textus
concerning “Literature and Law”. Finally we
ran a conference “Dickens and the voices of
Victorian culture” and published a volume
“Festschrift for M.T. Bindella”.
As far as the section of German and Slavic
Studies is concerned, research is developed
in the following fields: (a) German languages
and literatures, (b) Russian language and
literature, with the corresponding philology,
(German and Slavic Philology). The metalinguistic
and applied research is documented
in the fields of Glottology and General
Linguistics and of the Teaching of modern
foreign languages. Modern Greek language
and literature is present as well and studies
the relationships between the Greek world
and other cultural domains, including Russia.
Moreover, the PhD in Linguistics is part of
the School of Doctorate in Humanistic Studies.
Research activity is developed in the following
fields:
- antiquity, philologic-literary and historicalartistic
sciences;
- German literature: 20th century literature;
law and literature; Austrian literature; literature
and figurative arts; cooperation with the
Handbuch des Katholizismus zur Literatur
des 20 Jahrhunderts and researches on the
Weimar classicism in Italy;
- German linguistics: phonology, morphology,
lexicology, syntax, phraseology, dialectology/geo-linguistics;
- Slavic studies: 20th century Russian literature;
Russian-Ukraine literary relationships
in the 19th century; Russian linguistics, with
special attention to lexicography; pre-modern
Ukraine literature. Studies of the links
between the Slavic and German world, Italy-
Serbia relations, history of the 19th century
European Slavistics;
- Glottology and General Linguistics: Histo-
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rical linguistics (linguistic interference, lexicology
and lexicography, variational linguistics,
dialectology and linguistic geography,
literary multilingualism and onomatology);
participation in the LINCI project at the
University of Siena, linguistic observatory on
Italian spoken in Verona. Research themes of
the Verona unit Interface between morphology
and lexicon: the case of affixes;
- Germanic philology: philology of German
and northern medieval literatures; ecdotics;
current projects: a) digital edition and bibliographic
database of the Edda by Snorri
Sturluson (13th century); opening of a dynamic
site where the digital editions of the four
Edda codeces will be placed and web publication
of an on-line bibliography permitting
consultation, simple research, field/keyword
research, compilation of lists of results etc..
b) editing of the Code of Vienna of Friedrich
von Schwaben (15th century), accompanied
by translation and comment
- Modern Greek language and Literature.
Department of Economies, Societies and
Institutions
The department has four different sections:
(a) statistics, economic and social history; (b)
history, geography and languages; (d) agricultural,
economic politics and (d) management
of natural resources. It owns a well-furnished
bibliographic patrimony, totalling around
26.000 books, along with several journals.
The PhD in Economic History, part of the
School of Doctorate in Economy, is located
within the department. The Centre of
Environment Documentation is present as
well, gathering documented local and national
material of Italian and foreign legislative
texts, books, journals and iconographic and
photographic material concerning environmental
problems. The department has signed
agreements with 16 European universities,
referring to the Erasmus-Socrates program.
As for the statistics area, the analysis dealing
with interpretative models of the dynamics
of prices, in cooperation with the Depart-

ment of Economics of the University of Warwick,
results particularly relevant, along with
those concerning the evolution of productivity
and the influence of the sector turnover
on it. Other significant studies concern (a)
the problems of the aging of population and
other aspects of the inter-generational relationships,
and (b) stochastic models for spatial
data. In the field of history we highlight
the researches on the financial papers of mercantile
and noble families of the 17th and
18th centuries, those about the European dimension
of two German aristocrats Matthias
and Werner von der Schulenburg, as well as
those about the economic development of
Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia and about
the experience of the sharing worker. As for
geography, interest is particularly devoted to
the problems of the territory and to tourism.
Department of Legal Studies
The Department of legal studies, set up in
1999, aims at developing research in the following
scientific fields: (a) History; (b) Philosophy
and Romance Studies; (c) Enterprise
Right; (d) International Right; (e) Penal
Right; (f) Private Right; (f) Public Right.
The initiatives connected to research and teaching
are: Doctorates of Research; international
projects, the project with OLAF - EU-
ROPEAN COMMISSION - EUROPEAN
ANTI-FRAUD OFFICE - Legislation and
Legal Affaire; Competition Announcement
of the University; formative offer in a foreign
language; national projects in cooperation
with Agrileasing Bank SpA, with Srl initiatives
for the funding of research grants, with
the Counsellor of the Province for Equity.
Other centres have been activated, i.e. the
inter-departmental Centre TRANS.MIT.
for the research applied to transport – Centre
for the Study of Innovation in the P. A.;
O.T.L.A. – Observatory on the Changes of
Work.
Two libraries are present. The “G. Zanotto”
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library owns a bibliographic patrimony currently
counting around 30.000 volumes and
200 journals. The Centre of European Documentation
is at the same time a library specialised
in communitarian matters, open to
every citizen, and a laboratory of support to
research. Important activities of research in
the specific scientific and institutional fields
are also developed for a third party.
Department of Vine and Wine Sciences,
Technologies and Markets
The department of vine and wine sciences,
technologies and markets (DiSTeMeV) aims
at: promoting research in the fields of viticulture
and oenology through the development
of basic knowledge concerning biologic,
chemical and physical mechanism for
the vine-wine process; identifying and developing
technologies to meet the needs of
the vine-wine productive realities; facing and
analysing the problems and interactions with
the sector, in connection with the duties and
chances generated by the socio-economic system
of reference.
About 30 people currently work at the Di-
STeMeV, among whom professors, researchers,
PhD and post-doc students, administrative
and technical staff. The main research
projects deal with the following subjects:
construction and use of platforms of genomics
functional to the study of vine; study
and identification of the potentialities and
answers of varieties, in reference to cultural
practices environmental factors and biotic
and abiotic stress; technology of the conventional
and innovative processes of wine
production, stabilization, improvement and
conservation in order to enhance the features
of the wine qualities; studying the physiology,
metabolism and genetics of the oenology
micro-organisms, in order to improve the
control of fermentative processes and to exalt
the quality and healthiness of wines; analysis
of the relationships among origin, territorial
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differentiation and product, policies of mark
and strategic and operational marketing,
of the impact of the vine-wine policies and
norms and of the dynamics of the international
market regarding the sector competitiveness;
study of the consumers’ behaviours and
of the connections with the innovations of
process and product.
Department of Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy, with its 18
full and associated professors and about ten
researchers, develops a variety of research
topics, from ancient to contemporary philosophy,
from aesthetics and philosophy of
science to moral and political philosophy.
The different researches are collected in the
four curricula of the Doctorate of Research,
within the School of Doctorate in Humanities
and Philosophy: “Philosophy of Religion
and Phenomenology”; “Epistemology, Ontology
and Metaphysics”; “Moral and Political
Philosophy”; “History of Philosophy”. In
particular, we highlight the studies on “history
of concepts”, “Intellectual political history
in modern and contemporary contexts”, the
participation in the international programs
“Hermeneutique, mythe et image”, “EUniCult,
Cultural Competencies Network”.
Among the most recent conferences, we highlight
in 2007 “Philosophy of Medicine.
Ontology, Models, Clinical Method, methodologies
and mistakes”, “The problem of
ethic valence of the cosmos”, along with the
XXXVI National Conference of Philosophy
“Philosophers and Europe”. As far as doctoral
studies are concerned, some opportunities
of co-tutored thesis are currently in act with
the University of Freiburg in Germany, Paris
8 and the École Pratique des Hautes Études
en France. Other contacts will be added,
such as those related to the Erasmus program
for the 1st cycle course in Philosophy and
the 2nd cycle program in Philosophic Sciences
with the Universities of Aix-en-Provence.

A departmental library is also present, with
more than 15.000 volumes, supporting an
important editorial activity with Italian and
foreign publishers (FrancoAngeli, Il Poligrafo,
Marietti, Mimesis, Morcelliana, Columbia
University Press, Frommann Holzboog,
Olms).
Department of Economic Sciences
The Department of Economic Sciences was
set up as a research and specialised training
centre in Economy and Finance. The area
of economic subjects is very rich and covers
different scientific topics, including the
following: macro-economy and micro-economy;
econometrics; applied economy for
the environment, transports and local development;
health economy; political economy;
political economy for development; economy
of the family, education and non-profit organizations;
industrial economy; economy of
innovation; economy of well-being and so-
cial choices; economic geography; monetary
economy; rural and environmental policies.
Moreover, the area of mathematical and financial
subjects covers: financial mathematics;
mathematics of assurance companies;
models for the management of money; quantitative
models for the risk management;
econometrics of financial markets; theory of
options. The department runs cooperation
agreements for the exchange of professors
and students with other universities, both at
national and international level. The network
of exchanges initially activated by the International
Doctorate has now been extended
to didactic and research initiatives and allows
welcoming famous international lecturers as
“Visiting Professors”. Several initiatives depend
on the department: Doctorate of Research,
courses of specialization, laboratory of
“virtual” research, seminars and conferences,
allowing the participation of researchers and
scholars of international reputation. The research
activity is intense as well and favou-
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red by prestigious assignments for some of
its professors at national and international
institutions, thanks to its national and international
projects related to current economic
and financial problems.
Department of Business Economics
The Department of Business Economy is a
research and specialised training centre business
economy subjects. The main themes of
research are: management of services, logistics,
relational marketing, risk management,
economy of public administrations and nonprofit
business, systems of managerial control
and internal auditing, economy of groups of
enterprises, management accounting, performances
measurement, social reporting,
organizational innovation and information
system, strategic networks, financial innovation,
analysis of the structure of credit
systems, asset management, assurance economy.
The Department is responsible for the
following scientific subjects: Business Economics,
Business Economics and Management,
Business finance, Business organization, economics
of financial intermediaries. The teaching
staff of the department totals 15 full
professors, 6 associate professors, 16 researchers.
All professors and researchers teach in
the 1st and 2nd cycle courses of the faculties
of Economics and Foreign Languages and Literatures.
PhD students and doctors of research
work at the department as well, together
with owners of grants, didactic collaborators
and visiting professors coming from several
foreign universities. The main foreign universities
of origin of our visiting professors,
with which we have cooperation agreements,
are: London School of Economics and Political
Science, Aarus School of Business –
University of Aarus, Uman Boston College
of Management – Boston Pubblic Business
School, University of Ballarat (Australia) ,
IESEG Ecolé de Commerce management et
Gestion ( Lille), Austalian National Universi-

ty, University of Tennessee, Division of Quality
Techology and Management (Linkoping
- Swedwn), Institute of Service Management
(Lund University – Sweden), Universidad de
Oviedo, University of Voronez - Tate University
of Tecnologie, University of Toulon-Var,
University of Paisley, University of Dublin,
University of Linkopings, University of Salford.
The department is active also in the field of
specialised training at post-graduate level, in
cooperation with the faculty of Economics.
It takes part in the activities of the School of
Doctorate in Economics, is seat of the Research
Doctorate in Economics and Business
Management and is part of a consortium together
with the Universities of Naples, Venice,
Parma and Bergamo.
The department also takes part in national
and international projects and study activities
commissioned by a third party, such as:
financial institutions, territorial organizations,
private and public enterprises. It orga-
nizes conferences of national and international
relevance. A library too is present at the
department, gathering an amount of about
13.000 volumes and 107 Italian and foreign
journals.
Department of Pathology
The Department of Pathology includes 5
different Sections: General Pathology, Infectious
Diseases, Immunology, Microbiology
and Pathology (Pathological Anatomy in the
Italian definition). The Department totals
35 staff members, including full, associate
and aggregate professors and researchers, 23
technicians and 6 administrative officers. The
major scientific topics addressed by investigators
working in the Department include molecular
and cellular basis of innate immunity
responses, basic and clinical immunology,
basic and clinical aspects of host-pathogen
interaction and molecular and cellular biology
of neoplasy. More specific projects, which
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also imply collaborations with Italian and
foreign scholars, include: i) adhesive interactions
and mechanisms of signal transduction
regulating leukocyte migration and recruitment
into inflammatory sites; ii) molecular
basis of regulation of cytokine secretion and
anti-microbial functions in cells of innate
immunity; iii) immunotherapy of neoplasy
and anti-tumour vaccines; iv) mechanisms
of antibiotic resistance and new strategies of
antimicrobial therapy; v) molecular basis of
haematopoietic and solid tumour development
and identification of new markers for
the diagnosis and staging of neoplastic diseases.
Staff members of the Department are
involved in the organization of three distinct
PhD programs belonging to the Graduate
School in Translational Biomedicine: i) Molecular
and Cellular Biology and Pathology;
ii) Translational Biomedicine; iii) Human
Oncologic Pathology and Stem Cell Biology
and Clinical Application.
Department Maternal Infantile and Of
Biology-Genetics
The Department Maternal Infantile and of
Biology-Genetics has four sections: Biology
and Genetics; Gynaecology and Obstetrics,
Children Neuropsychiatry and Paediatrics.
The main areas of research are:
- patho-genetic processes of onco-proteins in
human cells;
- induction of HIV antibodies for the development
of a vaccine;
- post transcriptional regulation of the genetic
expression in vitro;
- genetics of cystic fibrosis and diseases related
to the CFTR gene;
- genetic analysis of complex diseases: coronary
arteriosclerosis, asthma, autism;
- pharmaco-genetics of the anti-platelets and
anti-asthmatic therapy;
- transcriptomic analysis of aorta aneurysm;
- treatment of gynaecologic cancers;
- infection from papilloma virus in teenager
girls;
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- eco-guided transvaginal sample of ovocytes
- children epilepsy
- GH hormone, metabolism and growth
- breath allegro-pathologies in paediatric age
- obesity and inflammation
- paediatric diabetology
At European level, the department takes
part in the following projects of the 6th Framework
Program of the European Union:
EUROPRISE European Vaccines and Microbicides
Enterprise, GABRIEL - A Multidisciplinary
Study to identify the genetic and
environmental causes of asthma in the European
Community, EuroCareCF – European
Coordination Action for Research in Cystic
Fibrosis and will take part in the project of
the 7th Framework Program MACPRO-
GEN, National reference Centre for Genomics
and Proteomics.
Department of Computer Sciences
The department of Computer Sciences (ID)
was created in 2001. Researches cover computer,
mathematical and physic fields.
Computer Sciences are a well-defined subject
and involve several similar cultural and methodological
areas. The mathematical areas,
with logics, algebra, numeric calculation;
probability and statistics are strongly involved
in computer sciences, in the same way
as engineering, i.e. elaborator architectures,
multimediality, parallel and distributes calculation.
Physics too plays a very important
role in the field of signals and images elaboration
and robotics, thanks to optics, acoustics
and rational mechanics. All these competences
are embodied by the teaching staff,
whose specificity is leading to the training of
personnel with strong theoretical bases and
wide capability in facing computer applications.
The department of computer sciences
considers itself a point of reference of research
and training in the computer field, since
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Analysis and synthesis of sound;
Analysis and test of hardware systems;
Analysis and test of programs;
Architectures and Systems for automatic
projecting;
Database and Territorial Informative Systems;
Bioinformatics;
Elaboration of Signals and Images;
Artificial Intelligence;
Man-Machine Interaction;
Programming language;
Non-conventional calculation models;
Multimediality;
Robotics;
Semantics and Computer Science Bases;
Security;
Computational vision and pattern recognition
Among these areas, some subjects have been
developed in a special way in the different
branches of the Doctorate of Research in
Computer Science activated in 1999. Several
projects have been funded by the European
Union, three of which concerning the 7th
Framework Program.
Department of Historical, Artistic, Archaeological
ond Geographical Studies
The department of Historical, artistic, archaeological
and geographical studies is a complex
research structure. The research activities
of the archaeological area are developed
through archaeological digging in Italy (Veneto
and Basilicata) and abroad (Turkey).
The historical-artistic area is involved in researches
focusing on themes related to figurative
arts, history of architecture, town planning
and landscape, along with the history of critics
and iconography; attention is also given
to the links between the specificities of the
Venetian art and the European, particularly
northern, culture. The historic area develops
diversified researches. In the field of medieval
studies, it favours the political and institu-

tional history of the Middle Ages (Northern
Italy), hagiography, history of local churches;
the modernistic area is interested in the history
of medical culture, cultural history, history
of historiography; the contemporary studies
are devoted to Italian emigration to America
and the history of élites in the liberal period
(also in comparative perspective). The area of
bibliography and biblioteconomy deals with
research on 20th century periodicals in Verona
and inventories of the Italian editions
in Malta. The geographic area is interested in
research concerning economy, environment,
landscape and cartography. The department
is responsible for several laboratories equipped
with scientific apparatuses and specific
materials (1. Laboratory of non-invasive
analysis of art works, 2. Laboratory of historical-artistic
documentation, 3. cartographic
lab, 4. laboratory of didactic of history and
geography, 5. laboratory for the analysis and
the study of archaeological finds).
Department of Romance Studies
The department of Romance studies gathers
around 30 professors of the faculty of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, organized in four
scientific areas: French studies; Iberian studies;
Italian studies; Philology. The department
is responsible also for about 10 PhD
students of the course in Foreign Literatures
and Literature Sciences, along with about 10
owners of grants for research projects. The
department manages the interdepartmental
centre of research on Romantic Europe
(CRIER). Traditionally individualists, the
professors of the Department of Romance
Studies have made great efforts in the last years
in order to direct their researches towards
more and more shared lines both within the
areas in which the department is divided, and
among the different areas and even among
professors of different departments. The professors
of Spanish and French Language are
involved in the research “At the roots of Europe:
Mores, Jews, Gipsies”, which has alre-
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ady produced two international conferences;
the section of Italian studies is working on
a project concerning “The 18th century collections
of epistles in Verona”, whereas the
section of French Studies is involved in researches
regarding the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Department of Romance Studies has stable
relationships of cooperation with many
foreign universities, both for the Doctorate
of Foreign Literatures and Literature Sciences
(several theses are developed in co-tutorship)
and for the individual or group research
projects. The strictest ties are with the
universities of Paris III, Paris VIII, Poitiers,
Nantes e Avignon (France), Barcellona, Alcalà
de Henares. Saragoza e Madrid (Spain),
Arizona (USA), Szeged (Hungary), Vilnius
(Lithuania).
Several professors of the Department are also
part of scientific committees of conferences,
journals or foreign editorial series.
Department of Neurological and Visual
Sciences
The Department of Neurological and Visual
Sciences was created in 1994 after the unification
of three Institutes of the Faculty of
Medicine and Surgery, and currently covers
six sections: physiology, clinical neurology,
neurosurgery, ophthalmology, rehabilitative
neurology and motor sciences. They are located
in three separated seats: Biological institutes
– Policlinic of Borgo Roma, “Ospedale
Maggiore” of Borgo Trento, Faculty of Motor
Sciences in Borgo Venezia. The teaching and
research activity of the department is developed
by about 196 people among professors,
PhD students, owners of grants and scholarships,
specializing students, administrativetechnical
personnel, along with the hospital
personnel employed at the clinical sections.
The teaching activity is developed for the degree
in Medicine and Surgery and in Dentistry
and Dental prostheses, of the 1st cycle
degrees in Health, nursery and obstetrical

professions, of Motor and Sport Science,
and in several Schools of Specialization; in
the Doctorate of Research in Neurosciences,
in Psychological and Psychiatric Sciences, in
Sciences of Physical Exercise and Human
Movement, and in Cardiovascular Physiology
(in consortium with Turin). The research
of the department is carried out in several
sectors of physiology and neurosciences, by
exploring different levels of complexity –
molecular, cellular, systemic – functions and
disorders of the central and periphery nervous
system, of sensorial organs, of muscular
effectors and the cardiovascular system.
Department of Psychology and Cultural
Anthropology
The Department of Psychology and Cultural
Anthropology was set up in 1999 as the
natural follow-up of the former Institute of
Psychology. Its staff is made up of professors
and researchers belonging to the following
fields: a) Psychology, (b) Anthropology, (c)
Sociology, and (d) Linguistics. Within the
psychological area, Work and Organizational
Psychology and Learning Theory Psychology
have a key role for (a) the PhD course in
Work and Organizational Psychology and
(b) the Centre for Youth Enterprising, both
having their seat in the Department. These
scientific fields are currently involved, among
others, in researches on mobbing, customer
satisfaction and professional competence.
Other well-developed fields of psychological
study are (a) General Psychology, focussing
mostly on perception (of space, body and relation),
(b) Psychometrics, and (c) Psychology
of Education and Development (focussing
on inter-subjectivity; research on on-line teaching;
acquisition of writing skills). We also
run research projects on Social Psychology
(trans-cultural psychology and psychology
of care relations), on Neurosciences (neural
bases of body actions) and on Dynamic Psychology
(empathy and motivation).
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With reference to anthropological studies,
they focus largely on the relationships among
genders, on cultural minorities and intercultural
connections.
As for Sociology, its main interests are the statistical
analysis of social facts and the study of
social changes, of work realities, of education
and communication.
Finally, with reference to linguistic studies,
the Department covers transversal research
topics on Psycholinguistics and Pragmatics
of discourse, with special reference to Mass
Media communicative strategies, newspaper
discourse and political language.
The Department promotes the integration
of studies, so that scholars studying different
scientific fields share knowledge, competence,
tools, ideas and methodology for the development
of projects.
We have an active research lab, where professors,
researchers, PhD students and post-graduates
with research grants carry out specific
projects within the following macro-research
fields:
Psychology
Neurosciences & Behavior
Sociology & Anthropology
Education
Library & Information Sciences
Information Technology & Communications
Systems
Finally, the Department regularly hosts conferences
at local, national and international
level; it has set up conventions with a number
of firms and social entities and runs research
projects funded by public and private
organizations and by the EU.
Department of Morphological-Biomedical
Sciences
The Department has the following sections:
- Anatomy and Histology, operating in the
research fields of Neurosciences, morphofunctional
Imaging and regenerative Medicine;
it runs 15 projects funded by the Eu-
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opean Union, Joint Projects, Cariverona,
Venetonanotech, Venetian Regional Administration,
BIO-PRE, Levoni, BIOS in cooperation
with Italian and foreign researchers.
- Biologic Chemistry, which develops its activity
in the areas of Enzymology, Protein Chemistry
and Biochemistry of cellular processes
and has 6 projects, including PRIN, Joint
Projects and The Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria
Foundation, in cooperation with Italian and
foreign researchers.
- Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy, which
is active in the fields of Clinical Biochemistry
and Laboratory Medicine. The main projects
concern Biochemistry of Sport, the main factors
of cardiovascular risk, the influence of
the pre-analytical variables on the reliability
of the laboratory data, the physiopathology
of coagulation, the appropriateness of the request
of exams in laboratory medicine, the
evaluation of the haplotypes in the study of
the hemoglobinopathies and of new tumour
markers in gynaecological pathologies.
- Radiology, focussing on modern imaging
diagnostics, with special reference to scan,
multislice computed tomography and magnetic
resonance. The projects currently in
act deal with pancreatic and hepatic pathologies.
Other researches have been developed
on the contrast means in scan and magnetic
resonance and of the applications of vascular
and interventionist radiology.
- Dental Clinics, focussing on Microsurgery,
Traumatology, Dentistry and orthognostic,
pre-prosthesis, of paediatric malformations,
rhinological and oral surgeries. The main research
lines deal with osteonecrosis of the jaw
in treatment with biphosphonates, tissues
bioengineering, homologous bone, biomaterials
in orthognatic surgery, Cone beam-CT,
microsurgery orthodontics through piezosurgery
and scan with contrast in lateralcervical
oncological diagnostics. A service of
Radio-protection is active in the department.
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Department of Medicine and Public Health
The department of Medicine and Public Health
has several sections, i.e. Epidemiology
and Medical Statistics, Pharmacology, Hygiene
and Preventive Medicine of Environment
and Employment, Legal medicine and
Medicine of Work, Psychiatry and Clinical
Psychology. It promotes the integration of
subjects, so that scholars related to different
areas share data, knowledge, techniques, tools,
ideas and skills for the development of
projects. Other targets of the department are
the collection of funds for research, the organization
of seminars and conferences, the involvement
of young scholars, by encouraging
them to start undertaking research in the
fields of Medicine and Public Health. Its activity
is developed through institutional research
and projects funded by both public and
private organizations, along with consultancy
and training services for third parties. It also
runs projects funded by the European Union
and through international agreements.
It owns autonomous spaces for didactic activity
and, for each section, highly specialised
laboratories and libraries rich in journal and
bibliographic material. As far as it concerns
post-graduate activities, the department offers:
2nd level masters in “Risk Management
and Patient Safety”; 1st level master
in “Management of Quality, Clinical Risk
and Safety of the Patient”; 1st level master in
“Management for the coordination tasks of
sanitarian professions”; “European Master in
sustainable Regional Health System”, ERA-
SMUS MUNDUS; Specialisation course in
“Organization, Management and Quality
of integrated Assistance Paths”. Doctorates
of Research: Doctorate in Psychological and
Psychiatric Sciences; Doctorate in Biosciences,
specialization in Genomics; Doctorate in
Medicine and Forensic Sciences; Doctorate
in Molecular, Industrial and Environmental
Biotechnologies; Doctorate in Traslational
Biomedicine; Doctorate in Clinical and

Experimental Medical Sciences; Doctorate
in Sociology and Social Research. Schools
of Specialization in: Hygiene; Medicine of
Work; Legal Medicine; Psychiatry.
The Department is responsible for 14 full
professors, 10 associate professors, 19 researchers,
1 university assistant and 27 technicaladministrative
collaborators. Professors are in
charge of the courses of: Pharmacology, Applied
Physics, Medical Statistics, Psychiatry,
General and Applied Hygiene, Legal Medicine
and Medicine of Assurances, Medicine
of work, General Nursery, Clinical and paediatric
Sciences and Clinical Psychology.
Researches are devoted not only to the academic
world but also to the National Health
System, as scientific-methodological support
to assistance activities. The different sections
help guaranteeing the services of assistance in
convention with the Hospital Trust of Verona.
Department of Economic Law
The scientific activity of the members of the
Department of Economic Law is testified to
by the amount of publications in the several
related scientific sectors concerning relevant
topics, the organization of conferences and
refresh courses, along with the participation
of some members of the teaching staff to research
projects of relevant national interest.
Several members of the Department often
take part in conferences as speakers and write
in top level scientific journals; some of them
are also members of scientific Committees of
such journals.
Research is developed in the juridical-publicistic,
juridical-privatistic and Financial
Science areas.
Research projects of the juridical-publicistic
area:
“International norms and national judges”
“Elusion and abuse of tributary right in the
internal and communitarian law”
“The local-regional perspective in the nor-
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mative definition of the integrated system of
intervention and social services”
“Regions, rights and constitutional jurisprudence”
“Judiciary putting into effect constitutional
rights between Constitutional Court and
common judges”
“Administrative right and administration in
objective sense”
“The sources of right of the new regional statutes”
“Protection of the national minorities in Slovenia
and Croatia”
“Resolutions of mayors and constitutional
guarantees”
Research projects of the juridical-privatistic
area:
“The non-validity of the Administrative Bo-
ard deliberations in the join stock company”
“Consortia of protection in the agro-alimentary
and wine production sectors, privatistic
profiles, exercise, delegates of public supervision
functions, problematic subjecting of
antitrust regulation”
“Recent jurisprudential guidelines as concerning
agrarian contracts”
“Financial markets and unification of the Supervision
Authority”
Research projects in the area of Financial
Sciences:
“Public Finance and immigration in the new
European context”
“Evasion of the personal income tax and net
fiscal exchange: are they connected?”
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
DOCTORATES OF RESEARCH
The Doctorate of Research is the third and
highest level of education within the Italian
academic structure and is equivalent to the
PhD. (Doctor of Philosophy) title of Anglo-
Saxon countries. The doctoral courses last 3
years in Italy and aim at providing the necessary
competence for practicing research activities
of high qualification at universities, public
organizations and private subjects. The
Unit for National and International Doctorates
of Research is responsible for the competition
announcements and all the connected
procedures. Moreover, it writes agreements
of scientific cooperation with Italian and foreign
Organizations and Institutions aiming
to support the doctoral courses financially; it
signs bilateral agreements with universities
and European and non-European research
centres for the internationalization of the
doctoral programs through the co-tutorship
of theses. The mobility of Ph.D. students is
fundamental for the doctoral training. Hence,
the University of Verona promotes the
development of research activities at foreign
institutions in European and non-European
countries. Moreover, it financially supports
PhD students with scholarships, by funding
50% of their expenses, depending on the period
of mobility spent abroad. All courses of
doctorate start each year on 01/01 (the academic
year coincides with the solar year).
The six Schools of Doctorate are:
Humanistic Studies
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Human Sciences and Philosophy
Economy
Life and Health Sciences
Biomedical Traslational Sciences.
Along with the doctorates linked to the Schools,
students can choose one of the following
PhD Courses:

Italian and European Constitutional Right
Right and Economy of Enterprise: Internal
and International matters
European Private Right and Patrimonial Relations
Multimedial Imaging and biomedicine
Sciences of Surgery and Hepatic-biliary and
Pancreatic Diseases
Nanotechnologies and nano-materials for
the applications in the biomedical field
Students who might be interested in taking
part in the selection for the access to the
Doctoral courses offered by the University
of Verona are required to follow all the procedures
mentioned in “Announcement for
the admission to the Schools and Courses of
Doctorate of Research”, published every year
– usually in July – on the “Official Competitions
Journal” and on the Official Notice
Board of the University (www.univr.it).
Research grants
The unit supports the development of research
activities by managing Research grants
and is in charge, in particular, of the different
steps of the research contract, including the
arrangement of the competition announcement,
dealing with the examining commission,
the selection (evaluation of titles and
discussion), and the final stages.
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Pietro Pigozzi
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Translation
Cristiana Chiarini
Special thanks to
Prof. Denis Delfitto for his contribution and supervision
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