The School

The School on Local Development (SLD) was established by the University of Trento, with D.r. no. 185 dated 30th March 2007

The School on Local Development is a University of Trento's interfaculty structure, jointly set up by the Faculties of Economics, Law and Sociology and later joined by the Faculties of Engineering and Cognitive Sciences, with the aim of carrying out research in local development.

The School has a strong vocation to international relations also founded on the European international partnership with the Corvinus University of Budapest, the University of Ljubljana and the University of Regensburg forming and coordinating the Erasmus Mundus Consortium which organizes the International Master in Comparative Local Development as well as seminars and workshops and promotes the students mobility.

The School is characterised by an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, with the contribution of foreign teaching staff and scholars, institutional and operative coordination with national and foreign partner universities, and the integration of research managed by the university departments.

The School includes the pre-existing university postgraduate programmes:

• Erasmus Mundus CoDe (actions 1,2,3)
• African Master JAMP

The School includes and coordinates the projects presented to the European Union:

• Erasmus Mundus Action 4

The School promotes the international mobility of Professors and Scholars through:

• Erasmus Mundus Action 3
• International Workshops and Conferences
• Courses at International Partner Universities 

Other activities managed by the School are: the Master’s programme for the qualification of teaching staff (at the USTM – Maputo), the Cuenca del Rio Toltén project and the Piano de Ordinamento Teritorial Vila de Caia, with the collaboration of the Faculty of Engineering, as well as the International Master Program in Sustainable Urban Environments Planning (MAPAUS).