Partners

The programme represents a joint initiative of the University of Trento and of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

University of Trento

The University of Trento is a young, medium sized institution in a human-scale city that offers an excellent quality of life. The University of Trento has always aimed at reaching and keeping high quality standards and over the years has also been able to create a solid policy basis, aimed at delivering high quality services to its students and the territory. The result is a wide range of excellent courses, supported by a high-level scientific research profile, which achieved important confirmations at international level.

Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento is one of the most recent Faculties of the University (funded in 1985), but still it is steadily one of the top ranked Engineering Faculties in Italy. This is due to proper didactic decisions aiming to exploit the specific know-how of its members and to cover the most relevant areas in Engineering – deciding to focus on a relatively small number of focused curricula. This strategy motivated the activation of the curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999.

The Faculty stands out for its didactic internationalization projects, for research excellency and for relations with companies, planning businesses and the public administration, which offer students the chance to always have contacts with the national and international production reality, especially when preparing their theses.

The Faculty of Engineering has around 3300 enrolled students each year and around 130 professors.

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

DISI at University of Trento is one of the leaders of research and development in the Information and Communication Technology sector at the Italian and European level.The Department was founded in January 2002 and represents a world-class aggregation of researchers and institutions. The Department provides a dynamic and qualified response to the ever-increasing, leading-edge competency demands in the field of ICT drawing from a productive fabric at the local, national and international level.

The Department covers three primary areas of the information and communication technology: computer science, telecommunications, and electronics. These disciplines are taught individually, but with a strong focus on interdisciplinarity. This gives DISI the ability to integrate the entire spectrum of competences needed to develop advanced technologies that underpin innovative applications and services.

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa is a public university institute working in the field of applied sciences: Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences and Political Sciences for the Class of Social Sciences, and Agricultural Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Industrial and Information Engineering for the Class of Experimental Sciences.

The aim of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna is to experiment innovative paths in education and research, so as to meet the modernization and innovation expectations of society. This mission is pursued by enhancing the autonomy and flexibility needs, which characterize Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and which derive from its having been acknowledged as an independent university institute with special autonomy working in the field of applied sciences.

Institute of Communication, Information and Perpetion Technologies (TeCIP)

The TeCIP Institute (Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies) was established in 2001 as a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of University and Research, thanks to the joint effort that Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna decided to undertake in the Telecommunications sector in collaboration with Marconi Communications S.p.A. (now Ericsson). These two parties, in partnership with CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications), signed a long-term agreement for the creation of a research centre for photonic networks and technologies, thus realising in Italy a unique example of synergy .

The structure developed firstly as an example of Integrated Research Centre, both public and private, in the field of Photonic Networks and Technologies.

During the years, the Centre attained a prominent position in the national and international scenario, thanks to several agreements with foreign universities, experiences of joint laboratories and European and extra-European partnerships.

With the aim of strengthening the unitary action and representing for the School an even more important centre for Information and Telecommunications Engineering, since 1st January 2007, TeCIP has been merged with the ReTiS (Real-Time Embedded Systems) Laboratory, which works in the field of Information Technology with a specific focus on Real-Time Embedded Systems design and analysis, including telecommunication systems, automotive, multimedia, industrial control.

The activities of the Engineering Labs at the Polo San Cataldo in Pisa - where TeCIP is located - have gradually been increased. In 2009 they were merged with the PERCRO Laboratory (Perceptual Robotics Laboratory), thus including among its subjects the "Perception Engineering" (Perceptual Robotics). The mission of the PERCRO Laboratory is to conceive and develop Advanced Interaction Concepts and Technologies for improving the communication between the humans and the reactive environment, with special attention to Virtual Environments and Tele-Robotic Systems.

The confluence in a single operational structure of sectors which are more and more connected and intertwined (such as Information, Communication and Perception Engineering) is a well-timed choice of sensitivity with regard to the current trend, with a significant added value and with a capacity to respond to the interdisciplinary challenges increasingly coming from sectors other than Engineering.