About the Program

The programme will form graduate students in four specialization areas of Computer Sciences:

• Embedded Systems
• Data Media and Knowledge
• Systems and Networks
• Software Technologies

These areas have been chosen for their growing impact on the society and for the resulting interest that they arouse in industry and academia.

The programme is reserved for highly talented and motivated students and will offer a balanced blend of classical lectures (to increase the knowledge of foundational topics) and of practical laboratory courses (to improve the skills of the student in tackling real life problems).

At the end of the programme, the student that has complied with all the requirements will be awarded with a Master Level degree by each of the two institutions. The degree issued by University of Trento has legal validity in Italy as "Laurea Magistrale in Informatica" (LM18).

All courses will be taught in English. Non-Italian students will also undertake courses on Italian culture and language. The programme is residential.

The programme will start in September 2010 and the first edition will have a duration of two academic years. Roughly half of the admitted students will spend their first year at the University of Trento, and their second year at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (in Pisa). The other half of the students will spend their first year in Pisa and the second year in Trento. Work towards the thesis will be jointly supervised and evaluated by two professors, one from each partner institution.