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European Programmes and Networks office University of Trento
The Trentino Experience Towards the European Research Area in the Knowledge Society Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento Building the future in an enlarged and more integrated Europe – The Trentino foresight exercise as a contribution to the European research area. ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Strategy ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Strategy – A new strategy (!) • Be a relevant player (!) • Two keywords: – Excellence – International dimension • However: To be structural, excellence and international dimension must (!) be a property of the system as a whole (university, research centers, secondary school, local government, industry, …) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Strategy -- Guidelines (1 out of 3) Excellence and international dimension • Excellence within the International arena (for a small University, only alternative to a “local teaching University”) • Need of critical mass: excellence possible only within a (carefully selected) limited number of areas • Building excellence incrementally as a starting point of a long term process (change “dominating culture” -- key mechanism: hire top researchers – need right mix of seniors and juniors) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Strategy -- Guidelines (2 out of 3) The core business Universities have three (!) areas of core business: • Teaching (bachelor level – Laurea triennale) • Research (including also: Masters level – laurea Specialistica and Masters, Doctorate level, Postdoc.) • Teaming up with society (technology transfer, brain transfer, startups, joint investments, …) For each of them, implement a different strategy ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Strategy -- Guidelines (3 out of 3) The geographic dimension Five geographic areas: • Trentino (and surrounding regions) – Our reference system. Need excellence and internationality as structural properties • Europe (Italy as part of Europe) – The arena where we play • US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, …. – Our colleagues/ competitors • East Europe -- Our future • Rest of the world (India, China, Vietnam, Corea, …) – The enlarged arena ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Where are we? ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Where are we? Trentino • Teaching: tighter and tighter collaborations with local entities (Internships, Apprenticeships, new degrees of local interest, …), Trento School of Management, … • Research and Technology Transfer: Joint projects among University, (local) research institutes, and (local) companies (regional Law 3, regional Law 6), Agenzia per lo Sviluppo (Agency for the Development of Trentino) • … still a long way to go. We have just started ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Where are we? Europe • • • • • • • Erasmus program Double degrees Leonardo Program Partecipation to Sixth Framework Masters and Doctorates in English … The Italian German University ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 19 88 -8 9 19 89 -9 0 19 90 -9 1 19 91 -9 2 19 92 -9 3 19 93 -9 4 19 94 -9 5 19 95 -9 6 19 96 -9 7 19 97 -9 8 19 98 -9 9 19 99 -0 0 20 00 -0 1 20 01 -0 2 20 02 -0 3 Number of students 19 0 88 -8 9 19 89 -9 0 19 90 -9 1 19 91 -9 2 19 92 -9 3 19 93 -9 4 19 94 -9 5 19 95 -9 6 19 96 -9 7 19 97 -9 8 19 98 -9 9 19 99 -0 0 20 00 -0 1 20 01 -0 2 20 02 -0 3 50 10 0 15 0 20 0 25 0 Number of students 30 0 35 0 Europe ERASMUS student mobility- outgoing ERASMUS student mobility - incoming 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Europe Double Degrees: Ongoing projects Economics Engineering Universität Bremen (D) TU Bergakademie Freiberg (D) Technische Universität Dresden (D) LeopoldFranzensUniversität Innsbruck (A) TU Bergakademie Freiberg (D) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (E) Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (F) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Humanities Technische Universität Dresden (D) Law Hamburger Universität für Wirtschaft und Politik (D) Natural Sciences Eberhard-KarlsUniversität Tübingen (Physics and Mathematics) (D) Sociology Technische Universität Dresden (D) KU EichstättIngolstadt (D) Universidad Granada (E) de Europe Double degrees: student mobility Numero studenti 20 16 12 20 19 17 8 12 12 12 9 4 3 8 6 4 3 4 2 0 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 Studenti in entrata ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Studenti italiani in uscita Europe Leonardo da Vinci: Mobility (only outgoing) 100 Numero studenti 90 80 70 60 97 50 30 20 82 81 40 71 50 75 54 44 10 0 1995-1997 1996-1998 1997-2000 1999-2001 2000-2002 2001-2003 2002-2004 2003-2005 ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Where are we? The US, Canada, ... world • • • • • Bilateral agreements American University University of California Fullbright program Multicultural University ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 World Geography of bilateral agreements 41% 18% 6% 6% 29% Europe South America ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 North America Asia Africa World Number of students 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 in entrata in uscita 2001-2002 American University ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 in entrata in uscita 2002-2003 University of California in entrata in uscita 2003-2004 Università a colori A New Initiative: Information and communication Technology (from around 1999) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Trentino – Build critical mass Set of top international research institutes • University of Trento (Computer Science, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Micro-Electronics, Net Economy) • ITC-Irst (Artificial Intelligence, User Oriented Informatics, MicroElectronics, Materials Science) • GraphiTech (Computer Graphics and related areas) -- Joint venture of Ini-Graphics foundation (Fraunhofer IGD Darmstadt), UniTN, ITC-Irst • CreateNet (Telecommunications and Security) – Joint Venture of UniTN, ITC-Irst, Technion Haifa, Politecnico di Torino, CNR Pisa, TU Berlin, TU BudaPest • Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF) (Mobility and related areas) • CNR Laboratory for applied Ontology (Knowledge engineering, knowledge management, knowledge representation, …) • … The BIT School (Bolzano Innsbruck Trento) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Trentino – build the system • Bachelor in Italian – most (all) students are local • Within Bachelor: Internship mandatory, possibility of joining apprenticeship program • Doctorate as the focal point of the Trentino research system: 3040 students per year from ALL research institutions (100-150 doctorate students at any time). Doctorate as one of the main sources of innovation (we hope) • Joint projects among research centers (FIRB, Law 3 projects, EEC projects… when possible) • Joint projects with local companies (Law 6 projects) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 International dimension • All our research centers have an international dimension • Lauree specialistiche (masters) and doctorate in English • Doctorate program: focus on students from East Europe and (second priority) Asia (India, Cina, Vietnam) • During ’02-’03, 16 out of 40 doctorate courses were from foreign professors • Post- doctoral students mainly from West Europe/ US/ Canada (mainly, but not only, using Law 3 post-doctoral program) • In the last two years 12 UniTN Faculty in ICT (2 part time) from abroad have been offered positions (5 are non-Italians) • The Indo Italian research center • The ITC-Irst center at Haifa • … and many of “usual” 6th framework research projects NOTE: PostDocs are the key for the creation of the European Research Area ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 ICT (from approx. 1999) PhD at DIT 100 18 Numero studenti 80 6 9 60 40 43 20 4 9 4 26 35 19 16 38 16 17 39 7 6 19 11 0 domande vincitori domande vincitori domande vincitori pervenuti pervenuti pervenuti 17 ciclo Italia ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 18 ciclo Est Europa 19 ciclo Asia Altro Conclusion • Excellence in selected areas and Internationality are our main focus • Our effort is relatively recent … and we still have a long way to go • Our next focus of interest: – Build stronger connections with industry – Increase dimension of international faculty (using also, but not only, “Rientro dei Cervelli” and Marie Curie programs) – Increase international network (strong interest on Erasmus Mundus program) ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 Where are we? First year undergraduate students 3500 3000 Numero Immatricolati 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 OTTOBRE NOVEMBR DICEMBRE 01 GEN-31 0 Giorno di Immatricolazione 2000/2001 ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004 Where are we – first year undergraduate? Provenienze: distribuzione percentuale studenti trentini e non a/a 2002/2003 Provenienze: distribuzione percentuale studenti trentini e non a/a 2003/2004 Provenienze: distribuzione percentuale studenti Provenienze: distribuzione percentuale Provenienze: Distribuzione percentuale studenti Provenienze: Distribuzione percentuale studenti 42,2% 46.1% trentini a/a 2002/2003 trentini non 2003/2004 esteri eeenon A/A 2003/2004 esteri enon non A/A 2002/2003 97.2% 98.4% 46.1% 42.2% 57,8% % tn su totale % non trentini Provenienze: Distribuzione percentuale studenti esteri e non A/A 2002/2003 53.9% % tn su totale % non trentini Provenienze: Distribuzione percentuale studenti esteri e non A/A 2003/2004 97.2% 98.4% 53.9% 57.8% 2.8% 1.6% 1.6% %%tn su totale susu totale %esteri estero totale % tn su totale % esteri su totale ITC-Irst, October 6, 2003 % italiani 2.8% % non trentini %%italiani italiani % non trentini % estero su totale % italiani