The Forlì branch campus is located in

Forlì Forlì ( ; ; ; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is, together with Cesena, the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena.The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the east of the Montone river, ...

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and is one of the five separate multicampuses of the

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History

Legislative decree n° 662/1996 addresses a key problem of so-called "mega-universities": students struggling to enroll and successfully attend them. The need to split universities with more than 40.000 enrolled students was thus seen as urgent to guarantee potential students' right to education. While some large universities gave life to minor independent campuses (such as the

University of Eastern Piedmont The University of Eastern Piedmont "Amedeo Avogadro" (; shortened to UNIPMN or UPO) is a university located in Alessandria, Novara and Vercelli, in the region of Piedmont, Italy. It was founded in 1998 and is organized in seven faculties, which ...

or the University of Rome Three), the

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of Bologna opted for a Multicampus structure by activating decentralized campuses in the

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area. The Forlì Branch of the University of Bologna began operating on October 1st, 2001. Before then, Forlì had been the seat of the second School of

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of the University of Bologna, dedicated to the memory of Roberto Ruffilli, and of the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT). After 2001, its academic options broadened but kept their highly internationalized and professionalized character: the Schools of

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and

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were added to existing schools. The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages, and Cultures (SITLeC) and the Language Centre for the Scientific and Teaching Divisions of Romagna (CLIRO) are located at the Forlì branch. Further, in 2006

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labs were activated. They are part of the wider of the University of Bologna e-Learning Development Center (CELAB).

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A working day at the Forlì Branch of the University of Bologna in a video shot by Forlì TV
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