University of Pisa, Pisa (UNIPI)

The University of Pisa was officially established in 1343, although a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century.

Today the University of Pisa boasts twenty departments, with high level research centres in the sectors of agriculture, astrophysics, computer science, engineering, medicine and veterinary medicine.

Furthermore the University has close relations with the Pisan Institutes of the National Board of Research, with many cultural institutions of national and international importance, and with industry, especially that of information technology, which went through a phase of rapid expansion in Pisa during the nineteen sixties and seventies.