Università degli Studi di Padova

Mission & Goals

The University of Padova is among the most important institutions of higher education in the European Union with 32 departments, 203 degree programs, 42 Phd courses, 68 specializations and 63 masters, 70.000 enrolled students, 2.500 permanent professors, 900 researchers and 2.700 administrative staff. The Strategic Plan 2023-2027 aims to promote and protect a public university that is open, secular, pluralist and free from “any conditioning and discrimination based on ideological, religious, political, economic or physical reasons” (Statute, art. 1). To protect freedom of research and teaching, to enhance all fields of knowledge, promoting interdisciplinarity in research and teaching, to promote the commitment to scientific research, to the generation and transmission of knowledge and to cultural production, which is the basis for the formation of new generations and for economic and social growth, ... (see https://www.unipd.it/piano-strategico-ateneo)