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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

davide.pettenella@unipd.it diego.florian@unipd.it

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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Rome

Venice

Location

Treviso

Connection

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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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www.medfor.ue

(Davide Pettenella,

Laura Secco , Paola Gatto)

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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

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Final wish to you all coming

to Padova

“REDIBO PLENIOR”

“I shall come back richer, more mature” motto by G.V. Pinelli, second half of XVI Century