Building on its multicultural and multilingual heritage, the University of Trento, located between Central Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, is home to people of 80 different nationalities and aims to maintain and strengthen relations with other countries and cultures to give an opportunity for growth and training both to those who are already part of its community and to those who are disadvantaged because of wars, poverty, personal situations.

This vision is the reason behind a variety of policies and strategies ranging from attention to the use of language to the importance given to internationalization, openness to migrants and the reception of scholars living in situations of risk.