University of Piemonte Orientale

UPO was founded on 31 July 1998, removing structures, assets, equipment, staff, students, and legal entities from the University of Turin according to the decentralisation and university autonomy model created in the 1980s and 1990s. For those years, the idea of creating an autonomous university in the three hub-cities of Alessandria, Novara and Vercelli, where the detached structures of the mother university were already based, was very courageous; at that time almost all Italian and European universities were monocentric, expressions of a city, and not of a territory. Since that time, UPO has become a successful experiment. We have established original teaching and research paths; we have established networks of relationships with local, national and international partners, both public and private. We have become a real driving force in the region, creating a significant impact on the local economy. We are, therefore, a young, enterprising, inclusive and open university, always ready to welcome young people in an exciting and comfortable study environment, where the teaching staff carefully cultivate the path of each fresher, enhancing the person and their talents. It is no coincidence that for some years we have defined ourselves as a glocal open campus: proud of our roots, but also capable of seizing wider opportunities and building networks on a global level. Proof of this can be found in the current 10% of international students who choose to study with us, the hundreds of collaboration agreements with universities on all continents and, equally, with the most appreciated national and international institutions.

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