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University of Padua

English Name:University of Padua
Region:Southern Europe
Country:Italy
Found Year:1222
Address:via 8 Febbraio, 2 – 35122
Website:https://www.unipd.it

Along with such universities as Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge, that of Padua was one of the first to exemplify the idea of a Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum – an educational model that can now be seen throughout the world. Though the university’s year of foundation is generally given as 1222, that in fact only marks the date from which there are records of a “fixed and publicly recognised university established within the city” and so the actual foundation can be dated even early, to a period when a number of professors and students had left the University of Bologna as a result of “offences to academic freedom and the failure to observe the privileges that had been guaranteed to teachers and pupils”. Such exchanges of personnel and students – together with the similarities in the Statutes of the two foundations – reveal that Padua placed a certain importance on this link with what was the oldest university in the world, against which it was however very soon setting itself up as a rival (and even centuries later that rivalry has lost none of its edge).University of Padua was not founded as the result of a charter granted by pope of emperor, but as a “response to the specific social and cultural conditions that created a need for it”; and its motto of Universa Universis Patavina Libertas was well-deserved not only under the original Commune of the thirteenth century but also during the fourteenth-century rule of the Carraresi and throughout the period of Venetian rule of the city (from the 15th to the 18th century), all these different authorities guaranteeing full respect for the university’s freedoms. The fifteenth century would see the beginning of more than three hundred years of growth in prestige as the University of Padua benefited from the protection of the Venetian 2

Republic, which was determined that this should be the only Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum within its territories. It was during this period that Padua made its great contribution to the nascent scientific revolution, with developments in philosophical thought, in the study of medicine and anatomy and the great discoveries in astronomy, physics and mathematics that are linked with the eighteen-year period that Galileo Galilei taught at the university (from 1592 to 1610).During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, as universities spread throughout Europe and ideas were exchanged backwards and forwards across the continent, the role of Padua University changed; however, it still maintained its unique position within the Venetian Republic, and the eminence of its professors meant it continued to hold a high place both within and without Italy. Amongst the figures associated with the University at this time, one might mention: Domenico Guglielmi, Bernardino Ramazzini, Gian Battista Morgagni, Gian Battista Poleni, Antonio Vallisneri and Giuseppe Toaldo, with the students including Carlo Goldoni, Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Tartini and Giacomo Casanova.The political role of the university was particularly apparent in the nineteenth century, when its professors and students took part in the local uprising of February 1848 against the Austrian occupation; and again in the First World War, Padua would find itself the centre of the zone of operations bordering on the Austrian Front. Just a few decades later, under its Rector Concetto Marchesi and its Pro-Rector Egidio Meneghetti, Padua University would live up to its motto by taking a leading role in the struggle against the Nazi occupation of 1943-45; and in recognition of the sacrifices made by so many young people who lost their life in that struggle, the university would later receive the Gold Medal for Valour, the only university in Italy to gain such an awardn recent years, the University has been able to meet the problems posed by overcrowded facilities by re-deploying over the Veneto as a whole. In 1990, the Institute of Management Engineering was set up in Vicenza; then the summer courses at Bressanone began once more; and in 1995 the Agripolis centre at Legnaro – for Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine – opened. Other sites of re-deployment are at Rovigo, Treviso, Feltre, Castelfranco Veneto, Conegliano, Chioggia and Asiago.Recent changes in state legislation have also opened the way to greater autonomy for Italian universities, and in 1995 Padua adopted a Statute that gave it greater independence. As the publications of innumerable conferences and congresses show, the modern-day University of Padua plays an important role in scholarly and scientific research at both a European and world level. True to its origins, this is the direction in which the Institution intends to move in the future, establishing closer and closer links of co-operation and exchange with all the world’s major research universities.

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Undergraduate Programs
           Agricultural Science and Technology
           Animal Science and Technology
           Archaeology
           Arts and Humanities
           Astronomy
           Audioprothesic Techniques
           Biology
           Biomedical Laboratory Techniques
           Biotechnology
           Chemistry
           Childhood and Pre-Adolescence Teacher Training Science
           Childhood Neuro and Psycomotricity
           Cognitive Psychology
           Communication
           Computer Science
           Cultural Tourism Planning and Management
           Dental Hygiene Castelfranco Veneto
           Developmental and Educational
           Dietistic
           Economic Law
           Educational Sciences
           Employment Consultancy
           Environment and Workplace
           Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques
           Environmental Sciences and Technology
           Food Science and Technology
           Forestry and Environmental and Technology
           Geological Science
           Health Assistance
           History and Conservation of The Artistic and Musical Heritage
           History
           Human Movement Sciences
           Imaging and Radiotherapy
           Industrial Chemistry
           International Economics
           Land and Landscape Restoration and Nhancement
           Linguistic and Cultural Mediation
           Materials Science
           Mathematics
           Modern Languages and Literatures
           Molecular Biology
           Natural Science
           Neurophysiopathology Techniques
           Nursing
           Occupational Therapy
           Optics and Optometry
           Orthoptic and Ophthalmologic
           Pediatric Nursing
           Philosophy
           Physics
           Physiotherapy
           Political Sciences, International Relations, Human Rights
           Political Sciences, International Studies, Public Administration
           Prevention Techniques
           Professional Education
           Psychobiology
           Psychological Sciences Andtechniques
           Psychology
           Psychology of Personality Andnterpersonal Relationships
           Safety and Hygiene of Food Products
           Science and Culture of Gastronomy And Catering
           Social and Work Psychology
           Social Work
           Sociological Sciences
           Speech and Language Therapy
           Statistics and Informationtechnologies
           Statistics and Management
           Statistics, Economics and Finance
           Techniques
           Visual and Performing Arts
           Viticulture and Enology Science and Technology
Graduate Programs
           Activity
           Aerospace Engineering
           Agricultural Science and Technology
           Animal Science and Technology
           Archaeological Sciences
           Architecture
           Astronomy
           Automation Engineering
           Bioengineering
           Biotechnology Applied To Food Security and Nutrition
           Building Engineering
           Business Administration
           Chemical and Process Engineering
           Chemistry and Pharmaceutical
           Chemistry
           Civil Engineering
           Classical Languages and Literatures and Ancient History
           Clinical Dynamic Psychology
           Clinical Engineering
           Community Psychology
           Computer Engineering
           Computer Science
           Developmental and Educational
           Economics and Finance
           Electrical Engineering
           Energy Engineering
           Engineering and Management
           Environmental Engineering(Lessons In English Language)
           European and American Languages and Literatures
           European Studies
           Evolutionary Biology
           Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
           Food Science and Technology
           Forestry and Environmental Sciences
           Geology and Technical Geology
           Government Sciences and Public
           Health Professions Of Rehabilitation
           Health Professions Of Technical Sciences (Diagnostic)
           Historical Sciences
           History Of Art
           Industrial Biotechnology
           Industrial Chemistry
           Institutions and Politics of Human
           International Economics
           International Politics and Diplomacy
           Land and Environment Science and Technology
           Law and Economics
           Law and Jurisprudence
           Life-Long Education Sciences
           Linguistics
           Local Development(Lessons In English Language)
           Local Development (Erasmus Munds Master Degree In Sustainable Territorial Development)(Lessons In English and French Languages)
           Management Of Educational Services
           Materials Engineering
           Materials Science
           Mathematics
           Mechanical Engineering
           Mechatronic Engineering
           Media Education and E-Learning
           Medical Biotechnologies
           Medicine and Surgery
           Modern Languages For The International Communication and Cooperation
           Modern Philology
           Molecular Biology
           Music and Performing Arts
           Natural Science
           Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
           Nursing and Midwifery Sciences
           Nursing and Midwifery Sciences Castelfranco
           Pedagogical Sciences
           Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies
           Pharmacy
           Philosophical Sciences
           Physics
           Policies
           Preventive and Adapted Physical
           Primary Teacher Education
           Product Innovation Engineering
           Psychology
           Rehabilitation Health Professional Science
           Rights and Peace
           Sanitary Biology
           Sciences
           Sciences Of Social Work
           Social, Work and Communication
           Sociology
           Statistical Sciences
           Strategies In Communication
           Studies
           Technical Diagnostics For Health Professions
           Techniques
           Telecommunication Engineering
           Theatre, Film, Television and Media
           Theory and Methodology(Distance Learning)
           Veterinary Medicine

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