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International Advisory Board @ SSSA – Pisa, 2011
Maria Chiara Carrozza
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Direttore
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Outline of the Presentation
• What is Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: traditionand innovation
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2010
• Strategic Plan: ideas for future development
• Open issues and critical questions
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Outline of the Presentation
• What is Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: traditionand innovation
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2010
• Strategic Plan: ideas for future development
• Open issues and critical questions
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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: its origin
• The origin of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna was in a numbers of honors colleges covering areas of social and applied sciences that were part of the Scuola Normale Superiore. The model was the Ecole Normale Superiéure de Paris.– The pre-war Mussolini College for Corporative Sciences and the
National Medical College merged to create the Collegio Medico Giuridico
– A. Pacinotti School of Applied Sciences (founded in 1951) and the Collegio Medico Giuridico merged to establish in 1967 the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento
• In 1987 the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna became an independent university with a status similar to Scuola Normale Superiore but focused on social and experimental sciences.
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1987SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT’ANNA DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E D I PERFEZIONAMENTO
With law no. 41 of 14 February 1987, the School becomes an autonomous university.
ScuolaSuperioreSant’Anna: historical perspective
1593FERDINANDO I COLLEGE
1605PUTEANO COLLEGE
1656BOARDING SCHOOL FOR THE
EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMENEstablished by the Orderof the Benedictine Nuns
of the Sant’Anna Convent1931
MUSSOLINI COLLEGEFOR CORPORATIVE SCIENCES
1932NATIONALMEDICAL COLLEGE
Late ‘40sCOLLEGIO MEDICO GIURIDICORun by the Scuola Normale Superiore
1786SANT’ANNA GIRLS’BOARDING SCHOOL
After the abolition of the religiousorders by the grand duke
Pietro Leopoldo I
1951A. PACINOTTI
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES
1967SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E
DI PERFEZIONAMENTO
1908SANT’ANNA GIRLS’ BOARDING SCHOOLUnder the tutelage of the Ministry of Education
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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: mission (legge n. 41/1987)
• Cultural development, scientific and technological research, innovation.
• Higher education and post-secondary education, lifelong learning.
• Research ad development, technology transfer, protection and exploitation of intellectual property, promotion of Start-up and Spin-off companies.
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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna at a glance• EDUCATION: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna is a state university,
offering Masters and PhD courses.
• SELECTION: Candidates for admission at SSSA undergo a rigorous national competitive examination, and only few are selected to integrate their studies at University of Pisa with the extra course and research activities at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, these students are Honors College Students (Allievi Ordinari)
• CAMPUS: Honors College Students live in the campus of the Scuola, they have to get top marks in all their exams, show proficiency in two foreign languages, attend SSSA internal courses and prepare SSSADiploma that requires involvement in research projects and internships in foreign institutions.
• AREAS: Economics and Management, Law and Political Sciences for (School of Social Sciences), and Agricultural Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Industrial, Communication and Information Engineering (School of Experimental Sciences).
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2.100 professors
50.000 students
University of Pisa
Established in 1343
Scuola Normale
Superiore
Established in
1810
100 professors
400 studentsScuola Superiore
Sant’AnnaEstablished in 1987100 professors
300 students
Pisa: a “melting pot” of students, professors and scientists
National Institute of Nuclear Physics
300 researchers
15 Research Institutes
1.500 researchers
National Research Council
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Scientists who studied at ScuolaSuperioreSant’Anna (Ex Alumni)
G. TononiUniversityof Wisconsin
F. Michelassi, Surgeon, CornellUniversity
E. Mugnaini, NorthwestUniversity
G. De Fraja, LeichesterUniversity
E. Schipani,Harvard University
M. Fabbri, Ohio State University
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The SSSA model …
EDUCATION
RESEARCH
EXPLOITATION
� Ability to manage largeinternational projects
� Collaborations with industry� Centers of Excellence� Spin-off companies
� Large number of national/international research projects
� Scientific publications in top international journals
� Specific policy for IP protection
All SSSA students in history graduated with honours
…a smooth and systematic transition from high quality education, to “frontier” research and to the exploitation of educated human resources and research results
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Honors College Pisa(education and dormitories)
UndergraduateCourses and Lauree magistrali
PhD SchoolsGraduate programs
SANT’ANNA RESEARCH PARK(under construction)
San Piero a Grado, Lucca, etc.
Pontedera
Pisa
Livorno
SSSA Governance
Life-longLearning
CAMPUS ResearchInstitutes
Masters and Training Division(Pisa)
SIAF (Volterra)
+
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President
UniversitySenate
Governing Body
Director
Admin. Management
ResearchDiv.
FURPoloS.A.
ValderaCEIICPDAF
Personnel, organization and
general services
Staff
General and LegalAffairs
OperationalCoordinator
Staff
Management Control
Technicaland building
office
Servizi Informatici
Financial Statements
and Planning
OperationalCoordinator
OperationalCoordinator
OperationalCoordinator
Qualityoffice
Centres&Laboratories
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Honors College Students
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EducationProgrammes at SSSA
(age of the student)
18-19
(age of the student)
Laurea
Masters and Life-long training (1990)
Undergraduate Courses: honorscollege
Master Programmes(Laurea Magistrale)(2009)
PhD Programmes(1987)
Graduate programs (2010)
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Geographical mobility of our students
Candidates for admission to the Honors College (extra Tuscany about 69/100).
PhD Candidates
34,8% of PhD students is foreigner (non EU). In Italian Universities the average is 7,3% (CNVSU)
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The development of Scuola Sant’Anna (from 1993 to 2010)
Honors college PhD Master Total0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
83 68
18
169
266283
155
704
19932010
Source: SSSA
� In 17 years (since 1993), the increase of students was about 325%, from 169 a 704;
Students
Number
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Microengineering
Communication and Informatics
Virtual Reality
Biotechnology
BioRobotics Agricultural Science
Research: ExperimentalSciences
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IICP IICP -- Institute of Information, Institute of Information, Communication, and Perception EngineeringCommunication, and Perception Engineering
BioroboticsBiorobotics InstituteInstitutePolo Sant'Anna Polo Sant'Anna ValderaValdera
Research Institutes
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Outline of the Presentation
• What is Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: traditionand innovation
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2010
• Strategic Plan: ideasfor future development
• Open issues and critical questions
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SSSA numbers...
• More than 700 under graduate and post-graduate and PhD students
• More than 1.134participants to post-graduate courses and life-long education programmes
• 1:20 student/professor
• 30% of foreigners students in PhD Programmes
• More than 12 M Euro of research founds expected in 2010
• 660research collaborations in 2009, of which 517(78%) with foreign institutions
• 30Spin-off companies incubated e 50 international patents
• 103 Faculty (Professors and Assistant Professors)
• 151 administrative staff
• 28.000 m²total surface
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0
0,2
0,4
0,6
0,8
1
1,2
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Fund Raising capability
Source: SSSA
LINK Legge 488/1992
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Faculty34 (29 from December 2010) professors and 28 associate professors
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Professori Ordinari
M
F
GIU ECO SCP AGR ING MED50
55
60
65
70
75
Età me dia Profe ssori Ordinari
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Professori Associati
M
F
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED30
35
40
45
50
55
Età me dia Profe ssori Associat i
Full professors Average age of full professors
Associate professors Average age of associate professors
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Assistant professors and PhD students
GIU ECO SCP AGR ING MED25
27
29
31
33
35
Età me dia a llie vi Pe rfe zionandi
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Allievi Perfezionandi
M
F
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Ricercatori TD
M
F
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
30
32
34
36
38
40
Età media Ricercatori TDAssistant professors (DT) Average age of assistant professors (DT)
PhD students Average age of PhDstudents
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Research fellowships
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Assegnisti
M
F
GIU ECO S CP AGR ING MED
30
31
32
33
34
35
Età media AssegnistiResearch fellowships Average age of research fellowships
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� At the moment, the SSSA Faculty is composed of 34 Full Professors, 28 Associate Professors and 5 (confirmed) Assistant Professor
� 31 of the current Faculty did NOT hold any position at the SSSA before� Only in one case, a full professor has completed his academic career at the SSSA:
Honors college student -> PhD student -> Assistant professor -> Associate professor
0
5
10
15
20
25
Associate professor
Assistant professor
Assistant professor (DT)
Research fellowship
Honors College Student
PhD student
10
16
54
8
22NOTE: the same person could have held more positions in the SSSA during his/her career; in this case, the graph on the left counts him/her in more than one column
The positions that have most contributed to the current Faculty
Faculty36 out of 67 Faculty held a position in SSSA before obtaining the current
position
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Placement (336 alumni – 1997-2008)
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ISI Papers/Faculty
(science and technology areas)
Source: ISI WoS and MIUR, 2009
Scuola Normale Superiore
SISSA Scuola Sant'Anna
Media Università italiane
0,00
1,00
2,00
3,00
4,00
5,00
6,00
7,00
6,22
4,93
3,82
2,25
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Scuola Sant’Anna is the leader in Italy for research funding available/researcher
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
Source: MIUR 2008 (latest year available)
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
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Patents and Spin-off companies
(29)
Source: SSSA
57patents applications (10 licensed (7 to SSSA spin-off companies, 3 to industrial
partners), 2 sold, 5 in negotiation) + 2Designs + 3Copyrights + 2Trademarks
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Research Exploitation (some examples)
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Spin-off Companies at SSSA
Number of Companies: 27 (1991-2009)Product versus Services: 25/2Employers: 154
AreasICT 6
Electronics (Elettronics/Sensors) 5
Biomedical Instruments 4
Mechatronics 3
Environment/Energy 2
Robotics 2
Optoelectronics 2
Domotics 2
Consultancy- Due Diligence 1
5
Pisa:181
1
1
1
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Outline of the Presentation
• What is Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: traditionand innovation
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2010
• Strategic Plan: ideas for future development
• Open issues and critical questions
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Sant’Anna 2020
• Key Issues:
1) Financial support from Italian Ministry of University is used mostly for faculty and for the Honors College and it is decreasing: strategies?
2) Financial support from private and public bodies: which kind of partnerships and projects?
3) How to attract the best professors/researchers?
4) How to attract and select the gifted students?
5) What can we offer more in future to our potential students?
6) How to became a scientific and cultural leading institution in Italy and in Europe?
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Ongoing development: research Institutes
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SANT’ANNA RESEARCH PARK (under construction)
San Piero a Grado, Lucca, etc.
Pontedera
Pisa
Livorno
+
Biorobotics Institute
Institute of Information, Communication, and Perception Engineering
Institute of Economics
Institute DirpolisLaw, Policy and
Development
Institute of Management
Life Sciences Institute
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The “Sant’Anna Model”
• Campus: residential students, rigorous selection with competitive examination, interdisciplinarity, development of transversal skills, international community
• Long Education Programs: laurea, laureamagistrale(master), PhD, Master and Training, Post-doc, Research associate
• Combination and integration of research and education: courses and programs, identification of strategic research area, integration and mobility between industry and research
• Transfer people not technology, invest on people
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Strong points• The human and scientific qualities of people
• To attract, discover, and include gifted students with competitive examination
• The small dimensions and the strong interaction among its components that stimulate “team behavior” and the sense of belonging
• The ability to provide fast reaction to the national and international context changing
• The ability to pursue interdisciplinary educational and research initiatives
• The raise funding capabilities for research activities
• Its characteristics of “Campus” and of educational community residential
• The close relationship between professors and students
• The commitment to achieve better performance at any level
• The localization in an area characterized by a high density of universities, research centers, and high-tech start-up companies
• The attention to the internationalization, the capability to attract students and professors from abroad, to promote the creation of joint laboratories with industrial and academic partners, and manage large international research and training projects with several partners
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Weakpoints• The springing up of potential "competitors" in Italy
• The progressive decrease of funding from Ministry of University and Research because of the plan of national cuts in 2009-2011
• The absence from the international rankings of universities
• The general public has not a clear idea of the real nature of the SSSA (what is a University with a special statute? Is it a foundation? Is it private? Is it a college? Is it a school of economy?)
• The current collegial structures are hosting the maximum number of students; to grow up, the SSSA should invest in new infrastructures
• The structure should be reorganized: development of the research Institutes, improvement of the digital procedures, rationalization of the relationships with the multi campus structure (SIAF, CRIBE, Lucca, Livorno, ...)
• The breaking up in laboratories that are distributed in the local area limits the synergies and the development of interdisciplinary activities
• The absence of a strong policy and strategy to attract talented people (students, researchers, professors)
• The SSSA is too small to play an important role in the international scene
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Questions ?
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