The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (

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: ''Libera Università di Bolzano'',

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: ''Freie Universität Bozen'',

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: ''Università Liedia de Bulsan'') is a university primarily located in

Bolzano Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third la ...

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. It was founded on 31 October 1997 and is organized into five Faculties. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) aims to offer students a multilingual, practice-oriented education that meets the demands of the local and the European labor market. Lectures and seminars are held in

and

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

. The only exception is the Faculty of Education, which offers Italian, German and

speaking students separate training sections. The university offers study programmes ranging from bachelor's degrees to doctorates. The emphasis of teaching is to provide theoretically sound and practice-orientated training. A large proportion of educational activities take place as seminars, lectures given by guest speakers, practical training and workshops. Within the framework of the academic exchange program students are encouraged to spend one or more semesters at universities abroad.

Campus

The university has three campuses: at

Brixen Brixen (, ; it, Bressanone ; lld, Porsenù or ) is a town in South Tyrol, northern Italy, located about north of Bolzano. Geography First mentioned in 901, Brixen is the third largest city and oldest town in the province, and the artistic and ...

and

Bruneck Bruneck (; it, Brunico or Ladin: ''Bornech'' or ''Burnech''; la, Branecium or ''Brunopolis'' is the largest town in the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol. Geography Bruneck rises up in the middle of a wide valley (perhaps a ...

. The buildings in Bolzano were designed by the architects Matthias Bischoff and Roberto Azzola of

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and those at Brixen by Regina Kohlmeyer and Jens Oberst from

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. The latter won in 2005 the 9th architecture prize of the city of

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Rectors

The rectors of the university have been Alfred Steinherr, an

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from

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, from 1998 to 2003, the Swiss

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Rita Franceschini, from 2004 to 2008, and the German sociologist Walter Lorenz, from 2008 to 2016. The Italian

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Paolo Lugli is the actual rector since 2017.

Faculty of Economics and Management

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Faculty of Economics and Management
is based at

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. It offers three bachelor's and three master's degree programs.
Bachelor in Economics and ManagementBachelor in Economics and Social Sciences PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)Bachelor in Tourism, Sport and Event Management
(in Bruneck)
Master in Entrepreneurship and InnovationMaster in Economics and Management of the Public SectorMaster in Accounting and FinancePhD in Management and Economics
The research clusters of the faculty are: *

Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (disambiguation), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (disambiguation), tours. Th ...

Marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

and

Regional Development Regional development is a broad term but can be seen as a general effort to reduce regional disparities by supporting (employ) economin regions. In the past, regional development policy tended to try to achieve these objectives by means developmen ...

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

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and

Regulations Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. For ...

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

and

Innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity ...

Quantitative Methods Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data. It is formed from a deductive approach where emphasis is placed on the testing of theory, shaped by empiricist and positivist philosop ...

and

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Faculty of Education

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Faculty of Education
is in

and the following courses are active:
Bachelor in Social WorkBachelor for Social EducationBachelor in Communication Sciences and CultureMaster in Primary Education
(5 years)
Master in Innovation and Research for Social Work and Social Education (IRIS)Master in MusicologyPhD in General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy and General Education
Main research areas at the faculty are: * Educational and development projects and processes for different age groups and contexts * Social dynamics, social cohesion, citizenship and solidarity systems * Languages and communication for a multicultural and multilingual society

Faculty of Computer Science

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Faculty of Computer Science
is based in Bolzano and has the following courses:
Bachelor in Computer ScienceBachelor in Informatics and Management of Digital BusinessMaster in Software Engineering for Information SystemsMaster in Computational Data SciencePhD in Computer Science
The faculty's research centres are:
Research Centre for Information and Database Systems Engineering (IDSE)

Research Centre for Knowledge and Data (KRDB)

Research Centre for Software and Systems Engineering (SwSE)

Faculty of Science and Technology

Th
Faculty of Science and Technology
has the following active courses:
Bachelor in Agricultural and Agro-Environmental SciencesBachelor in Industrial and Mechanical EngineeringBachelor in Wood Engineering

Master in Industrial Mechanical EngineeringMaster in Energy EngineeringMaster in Environmental Management of Mountain AreasInternational Master in Horticulture ScienceMaster in Viticulture, Enology and Wine MarketingPhD in Mountain Environment and AgriculturePhD in Sustainable Energy and TechnologiesFood Engineering and Biotechnology
The main research areas of the faculty are:
Agricultural Sciences

Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency

Food Sciences

Fundamental Sciences for Innovative Applications

Management and Technologies for Mountain Environments

Industrial Engineering and Automation

Faculty of Design and Art

Th
Faculty of Design and Art
offers the following courses:
Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in DesignBachelor in Design and Art - Major in ArtMaster in Eco-Social Design1st Level Master in Design for Children
The main research areas of the faculty are: * Visual culture and its impact on society * Phenomena, processes and results of three-dimensional projects * Theories, forms and languages of design, art and visual culture The faculty also operates a

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name
Bitz
which is also open to users not affiliated with unibz.

European Master Programmes

Th
Faculty of Computer Science
at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is very active in this way and is amongst the research centers recognized by the

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as a leader in this program. There are two European Master Programmes in the area of

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running in this university, under

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Programme:
European Master Program in Computational LogicEuropean Master on Software Engineering

Studium Generale

Since 2011, there has been a multidisciplinar
''Studium Generale''
course, which offers a wide range of

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s in fields of general interest.

Research

A total of 917 projects of

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and

applied research Applied science is the use of the scientific method and knowledge obtained via conclusions from the method to attain practical goals. It includes a broad range of disciplines such as engineering and medicine. Applied science is often contrasted ...

have been conducted within the university since 1998.Facts & Figures
/ref> The university has scientific and technological laboratories at each of its sites, at the

NOI Techpark NOI Techpark is the science and technology park of South Tyrol that hosts 4 research institutes ( Fraunhofer Italia, Eurac Research, ClimateHouse and Research Centre Laimburg), 4 Faculties of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 40 scientific la ...

, a local technological and innovation hub, and at the Versuchszentrum Laimburg, an

agronomy Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...

research institute.

Library

According to library ranking system issued by German library networks (BIX project) in 2009, this university has the second best

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amongst German-speaking states (

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

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and

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Students activities

*The members of th
student advisory board
are elected every two years, however, between two elections a petition for the representative could be announced. Student representative are members of the University Council, the Academic Senate, the Faculty Council, the Course Council, the Equal Opportunities Committee and the Didactic Joint Committee. *The

South Tyrolean Student association The South Tyrolean student association (german: Südtiroler HochschülerInnenschaft, it, associazione universitaria sudtirolese, Ladin: ''lia di studenc dl’universitè de südtirol'') is the most important South Tyrolean association for students. ...

is the most important South Tyrolean association for students. Beside the head office in Bolzano there are seven branch offices in Austria and Italy. The sh.asus was founded in 1955 as a non-profit association. It represents South Tyrolean students studying abroad and students in South Tyrol. *The M.U.A., ''Movimento Universitario Altoatesino'', is an association which has been recognize by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano and has been founded in the 1993. Its principal purposes are "to defend and ease the right to study of the students and the working students of the university" and "to organize conferences, debatings, conventions, cultural, social and university seminar". The association operates in Bolzano and promotes the project WEBZ, "the first web-tv of South-Tyrol made by youngs for youngs."
''Kikero''
is a cultural association, which has been founded in 2000 and organizes activities such as the debating club and the movie nights. Furthermore, Kikero is also responsible for the university magazine "Kflyer".
SCUB''Sports Club University Bozen-Bolzano''
is the students' association that mainly deals with sports activities and that organizes every year the SNOWDAYS, Europe's biggest wintersport event for students from all over Italy and the EU. SCUB comprises also the UniParty team, which is in charge of throwing university parties for unibz students. *A furthe
student association
is the Bozen – Bolzano local committe

which organizes international exchange programmes to permit university students to get in touch with the working world.
PRO – Students for Business
also encourages students to connect with the working environment through the enhancement of economic and business activities. *The university also has a choir calle
UnibzVoices
conducted by Prof. Johann Van der Sandt who teaches "Music and Communication" at the Brixen College of Education. *The most recent student association is th
Alumni Club
that comprises graduates of the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano.

Bibliography

Hans Karl Peterlini Hans Karl Peterlini (born 12 March 1961) is an author, journalist, Austrian university professor and educational researcher originally from South Tyrol (Südtirol/Alto Adige), an autonomous, mostly German speaking province in Northern Italy. Like ...

& Hannes Obermair (eds), ''Universitas Est. Essays and documents on the history of education in Tyrol/South-Tyrol'', 2 Vol. (Bozen-Bolzano University Press, Raetia Verlag, Bozen/Bolzano 2008), * Klaus Kempf, Franz Berger, ''The Library as a Service Point. The Case of the Bozen University Library: Planning, Building, Financing'', in "Liber Quarterly", 10, 2000, pp. 108–116.Open Access ''Digizeitschriften''
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* ''Universitätsreden an der Freien Universität Bozen / Discorsi d'ateneo alla Libera Università di Bolzano / Public Talks at the Free University of Bozen'', 6 voll., Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano University Press, 2005-ss. ISBN (ISSN) 2494716-7 *

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References

External links

The official website of the unibzThe faculty of design's student blogThe library of the Free University of Bozen-BolzanoPagina dello Sports Club Universitario
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