The University of Trento strives to continuously improve itself, both to maintain the excellent positions it has already reached and to innovate in a sustainable and balanced way. The guidelines adopted therefore aim to maintain a constant and high level of focus on priority matters.

A Multidisciplinary Approach 

Developing maximum knowledge within each disciplinary field is a founding principle for every university.
This must however stimulate the capacity to connect different disciplinary fields, including within a given course of study, in order to provide students with the capability to find innovative ways to tackle the challenges posed by our times.
The ability to bring together skills from different disciplinary fields, creating shared working environments and collaborations among students and researchers with different skills to solve common research problems, must become a natural part of the everyday life of the University, both in teaching and in research.
A multidisciplinary university is also a place that stimulates people to be more open, curious, creative and open to new experiences.

Pursuing quality

The University is committed to respecting the principles and implementation criteria of its quality policies, described in the document “Politiche di Ateneo per la Qualità”.
The University will pursue quality in four directions: quality of education - by maintaining the quality of study programs; satisfying students’ expectations as regards equality, length of studies, and results achieved; experimenting with teaching methodologies that better facilitate learning; and offering cross-sector competencies, in an environment open to curiosity and discussion in which the culture of innovation and the sense of belonging to a scientific community play an important role; quality and visibility of research – by achieving remarkable results that are recognized by the scientific community, offering an environment in which researchers can perform their work independently and with freedom, and facilitating access to funding and participation in competitive open calls; quality in the third mission – by offering opportunities for discussion, information exchange, and sharing of knowledge and technological innovation with local organizations and citizens; quality of organization – by simplifying and optimizing processes and procedures to allow all University members to focus on their core activity, taking full advantage of competencies and merit.

Attractiveness

The people who work and study at our University are the main driver for its development and success. A community of people grows through experiences outside of its usual context and renews itself by attracting and integrating new and talented individuals, with different areas of expertise and capabilities. Fundamental aspects that increase the attractiveness of the University include a favourable working and studying environment, efficient research support services, the perception of equality of treatment, opportunities for individual growth (and thus individual responsibility and independence), the ability to receive training to face future challenges, and the opportunity to exercise in quality sports facilities. 

Reputation

A good reputation gives the University’s research outputs a wider dissemination at the international level; encourages the sharing of data and research results; attracts researchers, academics and students from other national and international institutions; places the University in a good position to compete for funding in Europe and worldwide; creates professional development opportunities for all (academic staff, young researchers, graduates and students) in a global setting and brings research results into the arena of global systems.
A university with a good reputation is without any doubt an attractive university which, in a virtuous circle, attracts and re-attracts quality elements.

Partnership