The University of Udine (

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''Università degli Studi di Udine'') is a university in the city of

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

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. It was founded in 1978 as part of the reconstruction plan of

Friuli Friuli ( fur, Friûl, sl, Furlanija, german: Friaul) is an area of Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity containing 1,000,000 Friulians. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli Venezia Giuli ...

after the earthquake in 1976. Its aim was to provide the Friulian community with an independent centre for advanced training in cultural and scientific studies and it is an important centre for the studies of Friulian language. The University is actively involved in student and staff exchange projects with universities within the

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, Australia and

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, and is currently engaged in close collaboration with several universities from Eastern Europe and other non-EU countries. Moreover, the University participates in many research projects at national and international level. The present number of students enrolled at the University for the academic year 2020/2021 is 14,986.

Organization

These are the 8 Departments (from the January 1st 2017) in which the university is divided into: * Department of Economics and Statistics (DIES) * Department of Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences - (DI4A) * Department of Languages and Literature, Communication, Education and Society - (DILL) * Department of Law Sciences (DISG) * Department of Humanistic Studies and Cultural Heritage - (DIUM) * Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (DMIF) * Department of Medical Sciences and Biology (DSMB) * Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture - (DPIA) Udine, palazzo florio 01

Rectors

* 1978-1979: Antonio Servadei * 1979-1981: Mario Bonsembiante * 1981-1983: Roberto Gusmani * 1983-1992: Franco Frilli * 1992-2001: Marzio Strassoldo * 2001-2008: Furio Honsell * 2008-2013: Cristiana Compagno * 2013-2019: Alberto Felice De Toni * 2019-current: Roberto Pinton

Notes and references

External links

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University of Udine International Students Services

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