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- Name
- University of Pavia (U.Pavia)
- Native name
- Università di Pavia
- Address
- Strada Nuova, 65
- Zipcode
- 27100
- City
- Pavia
- Country
- Italy
- Phone
- +39 0382 989898
- Email
- urp@unipv.it
- Centre Website
- https://web.unipv.it/
organisation profile
- The University of Pavia is one of the
oldest universities in Europe. An edict issued by King Lotharius quotes
a higher education institution in Pavia as already established in 825.
This institution, mainly devoted to law studies, was then chosen as the
main education centre for northern Italy. Enlarged and renovated by the
Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, it became the University of the
Duchy, officially established as a Studium Generale by Emperor Charles
IV in 1361.
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is only one of a large
group of famous professors who taught at the University of Pavia. To
mention just a few, let us recall Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), Antonio
Scarpa (1752-1832) and Camillo Golgi (1843-1926). The “cardanic joint”, a
widely used mechanical device, takes its name from the first. Scarpa
was professor of anatomy and medicine. Many parts of human anatomy are
today named after him, e.g. “Scarpa’s triangle” and “Scarpa’s fascia”.
Golgi invented the so called “black reaction”, which, for the first
time, displayed the ramified structure of nerve cells. This was the key
to open the chapter of neuroscience nowadays advancing so quickly. For
this discovery, Golgi was given the Nobel prize in 1906, together with
the Spanish Santiago Ramon y Cajal. The “Golgi complex” is only one of
the many microstructures which are today named after him. Today the
University boasts 24,000 students,both from Italy and from overseas. In
2013, 4,408 students graduated and 639 obtained a post-graduate
qualification.
Today Pavia is a Research University, offering a
wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching organized in
18 Departments and has study programmes at all levels: Bachelor’s
degrees, single-cycle Masters degrees, research degrees, speciality
schools and level I and II Masters degrees.
Research is carried out
in departments, institutes, clinics, centres, and laboratories in close
association with public and private institutions, enterprises and
companies.
The University of Pavia enjoys a strong tradition of
international student and teacher exchanges: bilateral agreements
involve, among others, the historical universities of Coimbra, and many
universities in Europe, the Middle East, the Mediterranean area, the
United States of America, China, Japan and many other countries.
The
University of Pavia is in a way unique not only because of its
prestigious historical origins and top quality achievements, but also
due to its leading and promoting role in the so-called “Pavia System”,
characterized by 20 colleges and residences where thousands of students
can live, study and play sports. The oldest residences, named Collegio
Borromeo and Collegio Ghislieri, were built in the 16th century; more
recently other colleges for male and female students were founded
through both public and private initiatives.
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- EDMO record id
- 3890
- Collating centre
- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography (OGS)
- Latest update
- 17 December 2014 4:39:15 PM