Polytechnic University of Bari is an Italian public university founded in 1990, when the well-established Faculty of Engineering and the newly-founded Faculty of Architecture, which at that time were both part of the University of Bari, were brought together. Later the Second Faculty of Engineering was created in Taranto. The Faculty of Engineering, which dates back to 1943, at that time only offered a Civil Engineering Degree Course. 

Polytechnic University of Bari now offers a wide range of study opportunities, consisting in eight First Level Degree courses, eleven Second Level Degree courses and two Five-Year Second Level Degree courses, along with many Postgraduate courses and Ph.D.’s.

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On 12 January 1806, Ferdinand III of Bourbon, king of Naples and the Two Sicilies, transformed the Panormite Academy of Studies into a University, granting it the power to award degrees in theology, medicine, law and philosophy: a conquest that the city had been waiting for for centuries . In fact, in the 1400s (but perhaps already two centuries earlier) there existed in Palermo the Franciscan Study in which Theology, Sacred Scripture, Canon Law and Philosophy were taught, and the General Study, also open to lay people, whose courses allowed students to obtain graduation from other universities. In 1550, these two realities were overwhelmed by the birth of the Jesuit College, destined to gain a role of absolute protagonism in the reality of the time and, in the imposing Collegio Massimo, today home to the regional library, the religious obtained permission from the Pope to issue degree in Philosophy and Theology.

On December 1, 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from the Bourbon kingdoms of Naples and Sicily and all their assets, including libraries, confiscated by the royal power. On 31 July 1778, the king entrusted a delegation with the task of reorganizing the Studio in Palermo and, alongside the "teachings of words", "the teachings of things" were introduced, namely Geometry, Economics, Agriculture and Commerce. The future University was in embryo.

With the arrival of Garibaldi in 1860 and the annexation of Sicily to the Savoy kingdom, the University became entirely secular, the faculty of Theology was closed and the School for engineers and architects was established. The university becomes a place of lively political debates and intense participation in the life of the city, the region and the country. He is the protagonist, with his teeth, of that fruitful period of artistic, architectural and literary production, which crossed Sicily between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century; it contributed to the urban transformation of the city and, with its graduates, to the training of the island's ruling class and of a significant part of the political class that would govern the country.

After the Second World War which caused huge losses among staff and serious damage to structures, the University managed to recover despite limited economic resources and social disorientation. From there began a phase of profound transformation to respond to the growing need for university education and illustrious personalities from the scientific world carried out their activities within the Palermo university: from Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered the first asteroid in 1801, to the chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro who makes a decisive contribution to the modern atomic system, to Emilio Segrè, Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1959.

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We are the oldest Athenaeum in Sicily and one of the largest in Italy. We are at the center of the Mediterranean, in a welcoming and connected city, a crossroads of art, culture and tourism. We are committed to fostering the cultural, social and economic growth of the territory. We are the University of Catania, since 1434.

The organization of teaching is entrusted to 17 departments, the Faculty of Medicine and the decentralized Teaching Facilities in Ragusa and Syracuse.

Also part of the Athenaeum's teaching facilities is the Catania Graduate School, a center of higher university education that each year selects talented young people, both Italian and foreign, who are regularly enrolled in our university courses but who in parallel follow an integrative and free course of study, of a residential nature, with in-depth study, research and experimentation activities.

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Università degli Studi del Sannio is a city university, nestled in the beautiful city of Benevento whose campuses are distributed in different parts of the city.

Benevento, capital of the province of the same name, is located in the Apennine hinterland of Campania, in the southern part of Sannio.

The University Pole of Benevento, consisting of the Departments of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, Engineering, and Science and Technology, born as a twinned branch of the University of Salerno, acquired full administrative and teaching autonomy as of January 1, 1998 (by Ministerial Decree 29/12/1997), taking the name Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento.

In the framework of national university education, the University of Sannio is distinguished by a complex cultural project, characterized, on the one hand, by highly specialized educational paths, such as to qualify it as a seat of national importance for certain disciplinary areas, and, on the other hand, by the promotional role that the University proposes in the process of development of the economic and social system of Campania, and in particular of its inland areas.

The choice of a hypothesis of settlement of the university structures according to logics of strong integration with the territory becomes, therefore, an indefectible step for the creation of that University-City system that summarizes the best Italian university tradition and expresses, first of all, a specific cultural option of high civil commitment, destined to enhance the set of pre-existing potentialities in the area, urban, building and social.

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