Newcastle University

The University of Torino (UNITO) is one of the most ancient and prestigious Italian Universities. Nowadays, UNITO has about 70.000 students, 4.000 academic, administrative and technical staff, 1800 post-graduate and post-doctoral students and 120 buildings in different parts of Torino and in key places in Piemonte. UNITO is today one of the largest Italian Universities, open to an international perspective in the fields of both research and training. It carries out scientific research and organizes courses in all disciplines, except Engineering and Architecture. It is organized in 27 Departments where research is carried out.

UNITO is active at international level through involvement of its researchers in several projects with foreign partners, establishment of joint educational courses, such as bi-national degrees and international PhD programmes, through the subscription of formal cooperation agreements (roughly 450) with institutions around the world and active participation in internationalization projects for Italian universities.

It has a long record in participating in European projects. Currently UNITO is taking part in 91 research projects funded under the FP7, being coordinator in 30 of these. UNITO participates in the project with the Department of Philosophy and Education. The Department of Philosophy and Education is composed of 81 people among educators, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians. The Department is the holder of Unesco Chair in Sustainable Development. It has several foreign collaborations. At present it is collaborating with WZB in Berlin and ESRI in Dublin on a project on the Quality of Living in Europe, for the European Foundation on Living and Working conditions.