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University of Padua
and the Faculty of Agriculture
Galileo Galilei 1592-1610
Univ. Botanical Garden
Agripolis campus
Davide Pettenella and Diego Florian
[email protected] [email protected]
Outline
• Location
• The University and the general QF
• Agripolis and the Faculty of Agriculture
• The Department
• The QF in forestry and LLL
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City of Padua: total population of 205.000 inhabitants
+ 66.000
University
students, many
coming from
outside the town
Multicultural
town, with
acceptable
integration of the
immigrants
150 km
from the Alps
(mountain
forests)
Legnaro
Bus station
Train station
University
Offices
15 min walk
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The University [video]
Faculties (12)
Agriculture (Agricolture, Forestry&Environment, Nutrition)
Political Sciences
Education
Letters and Philosophy
Medicine & surgery
Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences
Engineering
Pharmacy
Psychology
Statistical, Demographic and Actuarial Sc.
Veterinary medicine
Economics
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1 yr (Continuing LLL education)
The qualification framework
180 credits
3 years
120 credits
2 years
1 credit = 25 srudent working hrs
Post-graduate courses
Post-graduate courses
PhD
1st cycle (BSc: “Laurea”)
2nd cycle (Master:“Laurea magistrale”)
“Italian Master” degree programmes (1 yr – 60 ECTS)
Some examples of international courses
Transatlantic studies
Nanotechnologies
Business and management
Rural cooperation in developing countries
Human rights and children protection
Sustainable tropical forestry
Longlife learning opportunities
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University spin-offs (47)
Companies offering training, consultancy,
techn. transf. to professionals or other firms
The University can be a partner (5%)
The University provide start-up assistance
Special agreement with departments are set
New LLL opportunities with spin-offs
Intensive specialization courses (1 week)
Market oriented (technology transfer)
More frequent along the year
Based on modules and field experience
With E-learning opportunity
Less administrative costs
Competition for quality and services
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Internationalization
Institutional agreements with more than 100
Universities world-wide
– Special agreements devoted to development issues
with the universities of Khartoum, Ouagadougou,
Tunis, Baghdad, Kathmandu, Salvador de Bahia.
– Interdept. Center for Human Rights (intnl. MSc
programme with permanent relations with offices and
institutions of the UN, UNESCO, Council of Europe,
OSCE, EU)
International networks: Coimbra Group, T.I.M.E.,
Triangulum, Socrates TNPs, E.MA, …
Internationalization (teaching)
>10 EM Master + 2 PhD programmes
4 EM External Cooperation Windows
Strong commitment in procedures to issue joint
degrees
>2,000 foreign students in the 1st and 2nd cycle
60 doctoral students
Exchange students (mainly Erasmus programme): ~
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Indicators of Quality and
Reputation
Internal QA Committee: 8 members, (coordinated by
an external scientist; including one student): it reviews and
evaluates the administrative management, the teaching and
research activities, the renewals/new proposals of PhD programs
Departments are periodically evaluated by an
external committee
Ministerial evaluation committee
The last CENSIS national surveys ranked Padua
first among the large Italian universities
Padua coordinated one of the 6 “EUA Quality
Culture, I Round” networks
Agripolis
and
the Faculty of Agriculture
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Location
www.agraria.unipd.it
Bus of the SITA
Company from the
Padua Railway&Bus
Station
Agripolis campus
4 main institutions:
• the Faculty of Agriculture (+ exp. Farm)
• the Faculty of Veterinary
• the Agricultural Development Agency
• the Institute for Animal Diseases Prevention
University
Veneto Region
State
3.500 students (900 new enrolled/yr)
+ 130 professors
and researchers
Study Centre for the Alpine
Environment in Dolomites
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Faculty teaching organisation
In 2012 replaced and integrated
by Department “Schools”
• Agricultural biotechnology
• Agricultural science and technologies
• Animals science and technologies
• Food science and technologies
• Enology and viticulture (2 programmes, one with Univ. of
Verona)
• Forest and environmental technologies
• Landscape, Parks and urban forestry
• Soil protection and land management
• Environmental science
and technologies
QF: The first cycle
The Faculty Aula Magna
All in Italian
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QF: the second cycle
• Agricultural science and
technologies
• Food biotechnologies
• Food science and
technologies
• Animal science and
technologies
• Viticulture, enology and wine
market
• Forest and environmental
science
• Science and technologies for
the environment
• Internat. co-operation for
development
8 courses
The annual event “Agri-party” at Agripolis
In English
Services for the students
• Foreign languages centre
• All the campus Wi.Fi
• Students’ tutorial service
• Library: 28,000 books and
6,000 on line journals
• Sport facilities
• Student Associations
• Housing: 1800 places in Colleges (downtown)
managed by a Regional Authority
• Part-time working opportunities at the
University (150 hours/yr)
The Faculty library
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The TeSAF Department (LEAF: Land, Environment, Agricolture and Forestry)
Departments ( research)
• TeSAF
• Environmental Agronomy
and Agricultural Production
• Animal Science
• Agricultural Bio-Technology
Main fields of research: • For. Management, Ecology, Agr. and For.
Economics, Mechanisation, Watershed
management, Fitopathology
• Organic agriculture, range management,
horticulture, biomass production,
entomology, enology
• Management and improvement of animal
resources
• Bio-technologies applied to food and
health studies
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TeSAF (on 2010)
• Permanent academic staff: 34 professors and 17
researchers
• Other personnel: 35 technicians, librarians and
administrative employees.
• 31 PhD students
• Research budget: 5.5 M €
• Five main research areas:
• Economics
• Mechanical technologies
• Ecology and sylviculture
• Water Resources and soil protection
• Plant pathology
TeSAF: international teaching
projects ERASMUS MUNDUS Programme:
• Sustainable Tropical Forest Development MSc – SUTROFOR
• Development and Sustainable Forest and Nature Management
MSc – SUFONAMA
• Local Development MSc
• Forest and Society JPhD- FONASO
Others: • Advancing Mediterranean Forest Research Capacity - AGORA
with some res. organizations in Maroc, Tunisia, Turkey, Portugal
and Spain
• Forest Policy and Economics MSc – FOPER with EFI and some
Balkan Universities
• 4 Tempus projects for the assistance of Ukrainian, Albanian,
Croatian, Serbian forest research institutions
• 2 Tempus projects in Russia (S.Pietersburg and Yoshkar-Ola
Universities).
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Forest high education programs
in Padua
The only school in Italy with 4 Erasmus
Mundus programs. Similar structure:
– 1 year in a partner university (2 semesters)
– 1 year of specialization in another partner
university (1 semester + thesis)
– Joint Summer module
– 1 E-learning subject (in SUTROFOR and MEDfOR)
3 international Masters (MEDfOR, SUTROFOR,
SUFONAMA ) + 1 PhD program (FONASO)
www.sutrofor.ue
(Davide Pettenella and Laura Secco)
www.sufonama.ue
(Vincenzo D’Agostino)
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Other PhD Schools
Land, environment, resources and
health (including forestry issues)
Animal science
Managerial engineering and economic evaluation
Crop production science
Biotechnology and bio-chemestry
Viticulture, enology and marketing in the wine
sector
Trainings offered by 3 forestry related spin-offs:
• GIS and remote land analysis systems
• Wood technology analysis and services
• CSR and ethics applied to the forestry sector
at national and international level ETIFOR
Longlife learning opportunities
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Longlife learning opportunities Example of training course offered by ETIFOR (www.etifor.net)
More information about the University
www.unipd.it
www.agraria.unipd.it