Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento
Motto L'eccellenza come disciplina
Motto in English
Committed to excellence
Type State-supported
Established 1987 from previously existing institutions
President Prof. Yves Mény
Rector Prof. Pierdomenico Perata
Administrative staff
82
Students 1,652 (including people attending masters)
Undergraduates 232
163
Location Pisa, Italy
Colours Blue and Red         
Website www.sssup.it

The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa is a special-statute public university located in Pisa, Italy, operating in the field of applied sciences.

The rector is Pierdomenico Perata, elected on 8 May 2013 after the resignation of Maria Chiara Carrozza, when she became Member of Parliament and Minister of Education, Universities and Research. Since January 2014 the School has been presided over by Yves Mény. The former president was Giuliano Amato.[1][2] The Sant'Anna is part of the Pisa University System, together with the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa.

It is one of the three officially sanctioned special-statute universities in Italy i.e. it has 'university status', being part of the process of Superior Graduate Schools in Italy (Grandes écoles)[3] or Scuola Superiore Universitaria.[4]

History

The present-day Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is the descendant of several institutions modelled on the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, also known in Italian as Scuola Normale (English: Normal School), is a higher learning institution in Pisa, Italy. It was founded in 1810, by Napoleonic decree, as a branch of the École Normale Supérieure of Paris.

Preamble of the Statute of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

The school, whose origins, in the context of the Pisa university reality, are rooted in the Collegio Medico-Giuridico already attached to the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Collegio ‘Antonio Pacinotti, and was formally established by the Law of 14 February 1987, No. 41, which marked the unification of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Law (7 March 1967), No. 117, and the Conservatorio di Sant’Anna, the Royal Decree of 13 February 1908 No. LXXVIII.[5]

Origins of Sant'Anna

View of Sant'Anna Church within the courtyard of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

The present-day site is acquired from a very ancient religious educational establishment. The Sant'Anna Church and Convent was established in 1406, while the church was finished in 1426, by the Order of the Benedictine Nuns (OSB).

In 1785, the Conservatorio di Sant'Anna was initiated by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor as a consequence of abolition of the religious orders due to Leopold's reforms; the convent was suppressed in 1786.

The present-day Structure

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the University of Pisa create the Pisa University System. The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has been given separate university status by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy) and together with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa is leading the model of Scuole di Eccellenza, i.e. Superior Graduate School in Italy (Grandes écoles)[3][17]

Organization

View of the courtyard of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies: main gate

Students are admitted after passing a public national and international competitions. Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies offers to those who decide to take excellence, a multi-disciplinary approach to learning, research and internationalization.

As for its statute, the aims of Sant'Anna school of advanced studies are:[18]

The mission of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is to pave innovative pathways in education and research, responding to the modernization and innovation of society itself. This mission is pursued through the valorization of the autonomy and flexibility that characterize the Sant'Anna School and that derive from its status as an autonomous university by special statute.[19]

Academics and research

Students are admitted after passing a public national and international competitions. The fields of study and research are:

Social Sciences Class
Experimental Sciences Class

Undergraduate Programs

Potential under graduates undergo a rigorous public examination, and only the very best are creamed off to combine their Pisa University studies with the extra options available at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, thus these students are called Honors College Students. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna is also integrated with the Scuola Normale Superiore and Honors College Students are free to attend courses provided by departments other than their own, as well as those provided by the Scuola Normale Superiore.[11]

As of 2014, 50 freshmen are admitted per year, equally divided between the Class of Social Sciences and the Class of Experimental Sciences. The School offers all of its services free of charge; students also receive a small monthly income. While attending the Pisa University courses, the Honors College Students (allievi) live in the school's college. Students have to achieve a high average grade in university exams (at least 27/30) and attend internal courses (including 2 foreign language classes) taught by professors and researchers working at the School, both as an integration and as an extension to the regular academic schedule.[11]

Graduate Programs

The School also offers graduate courses such as master and doctoral programmes, provided by its research laboratories and joint ventures with foreign universities, leading enterprises and international organizations.

Master Courses

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies offers the fallowing Master's degrees :[20] - Master's Degrees and Post-Graduate Courses (Laurea Magistrale)

1. Master's Degrees (Laurea Magistrale):

2. Joint Master’s Programmes i.e. Joint Double Degree Post-Graduate Courses University of Trento(UniTN) - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna:

Levels

Level I Master's degrees:

Level II Master's degrees:

International Masters

Doctoral Programs (PhD)

The first institution in Italy to create a doctoral program (PhD) was Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1927 under the historic name "Diploma di Perfezionamento".[13][39] Research doctorates or PhD (Italian: Dottorato di ricerca) in Italy were introduced with law and Presidential Decree in 1980 (Law of February 21, 1980, No. 28 and the Presidential Decree No. 382 of 11 July 1980), referring to the reform of academic teaching, training and experimentation in organisation and teaching methods.[40][41]

Hence, the Superior Graduate Schools in Italy (Grandes écoles)[3] (Italian: Scuola Superiore Universitaria),[4] also called Schools of Excellence (Italian: Scuole di Eccellenza)[3][42] such as Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies still keep their reputed historical "Diploma di Perfezionamento" PhD title by law[39][43] and MIUR Decree.[44][45]

The Doctoral Programmes[43][44] at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies grant Diploma di Perfezionamento, a degree fully equivalent to a PhD and are recognized International Doctoral Programmes involving various forms of collaboration and joint ventures with foreign universities.[43]

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies offer the following doctoral programs:

  1. DBA EU (Pisa/Grenoble) - with courses at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Grenoble Ecole de Management(GEM)
  2. DBA China (Pisa/Grenoble/Chongqing) - with courses at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Grenoble Ecole de Management(GEM) and Chongqing University. The DBA is a four-years course, specifically designed for managers and executives, with a strong emphasis on management disciplines, during which participants acquire research skills and develop a rigorous research project regarding topics of interest. As a professional practice doctorate the DBA is equivalent to a PhD, but the emphasis is on applied rather than theoretical research.[47][48]

Post-Doctoral Education and Research

Partnerships exist with many foreign universities, such as University of California, Berkeley, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Max Planck Society, ETH Zurich, University College London, Imperial College London, University of Sussex, Waseda University, Osaka University, Chongqing University, University of Strasbourg, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, University of Toronto, Utrecht University, Berlin Institute of Technology, National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies of Japan, etc.

There are also worldwide important international corporations and industrial partners that are closely linked to Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, such as: the nearby Piaggio where there are special Sant'Anna Laboratories at the Polo Sant'Anna Valdera (PSAV),[56][57] which contributes to the industrial process, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Fiat (Centro Ricerche Fiat), Telecom Italia, Marconi Communications, Ericsson Research, Deutsche Telekom, Mistubishi Electric Corporation, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, etc.

Polo Sant'Anna Valdera (PSAV)[58] is a research centre of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies based in Pontedera (Pisa). It was inaugurated in 2002 thanks to the interest of the then president of Piaggio, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli. The property is housed in converted sheds donated by Piaggio.[59] The main research is in the fields of robotics, bioengineering, biotechnology, precision engineering, computing and virtual environments. Polo Sant'Anna Valdera (PSAV) has 25 offices, 4 classrooms for teaching, 7 laboratories, 20 rooms, all six thousand square meters. There currently employs about hundred people. The most important project in these laboratories is a bionic hand for people to have an upper limb amputee.[60] The ARTS Lab - Advanced Robotics Technology and System, created the famous breakthrough in the field of bio-robotics with the so-called CYBER HAND, shown on CNN International's Vital Signs Life Hand report. Sant'Anna also undertakes many international projects which are tied to the European Commission, the Government of Italy and its ministries, as well as regional projects of the Region of Tuscany and the Province of Pisa. The school maintains a number of research laboratories, some of which are located at the National Research Council (CNR) whose largest research center is in Pisa.

In the framework of the bilateral cooperation between Italy and China i.e. the Office of Chinese Language Council International (HanBan), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna hosts the third Italian Istituto Confucio i.e. Confucius Institute.

Research Institutes:[61]

Laboratories and research centers

Management

Economics

Laws

Political Science

Engineering

Agrobiosciences

Medicine

Partner universities and International Agreements

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has signed international agreements with respected partner universities around the globe.[64][65]

Europe

The Americas

Asia

Middle East

Africa

World rankings

Rankings
ARWU[67]
(2015, national)
1-3
ARWU[67]
(2015, world)
151-200
QS[68]
(2014/15, national)
1
QS[68]
(2014/15, world)
201-300
THE[69]
(2014/15, national)
2
THE[70]
(2014/15, world)
180
CENSIS-La Repubblica (state small-sized universities)[71]
(2014, national)
1
Il Sole 24 Ore (state universities)[72]
(2015, national)
24

As part of the Pisa University System, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is small and elite, specialised only in applied sciences.

1. Academic Ranking of World Universities

2. Times Higher Education World University Rankings

3. QS World University Rankings

4. SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR)

The Scimago Institution Ranking are based on the SCOPUS bibliometric database, featuring thirteen performance indicators of, innovation and web visibility. The following are some of Sant'Anna Schools best results at the world and national level:[85][86]

World

National

5. Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca

6. European Research Ranking

7. La Voce (newspaper)

Notable Alumni and Faculty

Faculty and Alumni of note include:

See also

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