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.
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Strategy
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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, …)
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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)
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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
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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
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Where are we?
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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
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Where are we?
Europe
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Erasmus program
Double degrees
Leonardo Program
Partecipation to Sixth Framework
Masters and Doctorates in English
…
The Italian German University
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25
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Number of students
30
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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)
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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
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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
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Where are we?
The US, Canada, ... world
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Bilateral agreements
American University
University of California
Fullbright program
Multicultural University
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World
Geography of bilateral agreements
41%
18%
6%
6%
29%
Europe
South America
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North America
Asia
Africa
World
Number of students
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
in entrata
in uscita
2001-2002
American University
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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Where are we?
First year undergraduate students
3500
3000
Numero Immatricolati
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
1
2
3
4
5
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42
OTTOBRE
NOVEMBR
DICEMBRE
01 GEN-31
0
Giorno di Immatricolazione
2000/2001
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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
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% italiani
2.8%
% non
trentini
%%italiani
italiani
% non trentini
% estero su totale
% italiani