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Bruxelles – 11 settembre 2006Parlamento Europeo

Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO)

“Amedeo Avogadro”Paolo Garbarino

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Main centres of study: Novara Vercelli Alessandria

Other branches: Alba-Bra Asti Biella Casale Monferrato Verbania

The UPO spreads out over theEastern Piedmont

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Main building

Rectorate(Former church of S. Maria Maggiore and later Jesuits’ Collegium – 4th c. AD – 16th c. – 18th c.)

VERCELLI

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Centres of studyVERCELLIFaculty of Humanities

Former monastic spaces of St. Andrew’s Abbey (1219-27)

Department of Humanities, 2001

Department of Humanities

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Centres of studyNOVARA

Department of Chemistry, Food, Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences

Former “Istituto Sperimentale Metalli Leggeri” (Research Centre) projected by Renzo Piano, 1986

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Centres of study

NOVARA

Faculty of Pharmacy

How it was. Former cotton mill (“Wild”), 1913

How it is. Faculty of Pharmacy, 2004

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Centres of studyNOVARA

Faculty of Economics

Department of Business Management and Territory Planning

Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods

How it was. Former barracks (“Caserma Perrone”),1915

How it is. Faculty of Economics, 2001

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Centres of studyNOVARA

Faculty of Medicine and Surgery

Department of Medical Sciences

How it was. Former school (“Istituto Bellini”), 1913

How it is. Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, 2001

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Centres of studyALESSANDRIA

Faculties of Political Sciences and LawDepartment of Public Policy and Public Choice

Department of Social Research

Department of Law and Economics

How it was. Former hat factory (“Borsalino”), 1888

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Centres of studyALESSANDRIA

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences

How it was.

It has been built up from nothing from 2001 to 2004

Department of Bio- and Environmental Sciences

Department of Sciences and Advanced

Technologies

Department of Information Technology

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12 Departments

Vercelli: Humanities

Novara: Medical Sciences, Pharmacy (pharmaceutics, food), Economics (economics, business, territory)

Alessandria: Law, Politics, Sociology, Life and Environment, Information Sciences, Science and Technology

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Professors 330

Staff 300

Students 10.500

PhD students 80

Reasearch lectureship 100

Reasearch budget (mln €) 28

Building Spaces (s.m.) 90.000

Figures

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…figures

about 100 research contracts with enterprises funding: local, regional, national, international 5 european projects (VI FP) 5 patent applications 4 spin-off companies

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VI Framework ProgrammeFunded projects /1

“Nanofire” (Environmentally friendly multifunctional fire retardant polymer hybrids and nanocomposites)

Programme: Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences

13 european partners. UPO share: € 261.600

“Stabilight” (Novel Inorganic Nanostructured Materials and Devices with Enhanced Photoemission Activity and Thermal Stability)

Programme: IST

7 european partners. UPO share: € 480.000

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VI Framework ProgrammeFunded projects /2

“Nomiracle” (Novel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment of Cumulative Stressors in Europe)Programme: Sustainable Development38 partners. UPO share € 200.000

“Cannabis” (Standardised extracts of Cannabis for use in the treatment of migraine and rheumatoid arthritis)

Programme: Lifesciences, genomics Biotechnology 8 partners: UPO share € 99.600 Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant «Non-

commutative Geometry, Gauge Theories and Higher Yang-Mills Theories with Nonabelian 2-Form Gauge Potential » € 40.000