At the start of the tests to enter the Superiore Sant’Anna with ‘Pisa welcomes the talent’
The written tests for the admission competition to enter the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies begin, second step after admission test. The first are those for admission to the Engineering area scheduled for Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 July at 2.30 pm at the Porta Nuova educational center, followed on 28 and 29 July by those for the Social Sciences class (Economics, Policies and Law). The written tests for Agricultural Sciences and Plant Biotechnologies and Medicine will take place on 5-6 and 8-9 September respectively.
With the competition, ‘Pisa welcomes the talent’, the program of welcome to candidates and candidates at their first meeting with the city. For those who participate in the admission tests, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna offers reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses, as well as a series of initiatives to make their stay in Pisa, the university city par excellence, a unique experience for candidates and also for those accompanying them, with discounts for staying in affiliated facilities or at the colleges of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and other opportunities to learn more about the artistic, cultural and environmental treasures of Pisa.
‘Pisa welcomes talent’: museums and walls
The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna has activated collaborations with the Opera della Primaziale Pisana, to visit the architectural and museum complex of the Duomo; with Palazzo Blu, a center for temporary exhibitions and cultural activities managed by the Pisa Foundation, to visit the current exhibitions; with the municipality of Pisa and the CoopCulture cooperative to walk on the medieval city walls that surround the city center. Through the vouchers that will be delivered before the competition tests, candidates and their companions will thus be able to take advantage of discounts to visit the places of Pisan beauty.
The initiative, now in its fourth edition, aims to enhance the ability of a city like Pisa, where the quality of life and the cultural breath are combined with a high level of training. The have been designed to make every incoming candidate feel like an expected and welcome guest. The opportunities and concessions provided for in the program continue for the entire duration of the admission competition.
“I would like to welcome the candidates who will participate in the competition – comments Sabina Nuti, director of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – and thank the institutions that collaborate with us every year in the good of this initiative. ‘Pisa welcomes talent’ wants convey the awareness that this city can represent aunique occasion of growth and learning. Pisa is the city of science and research with the highest concentration of female researchers, male and female students and students in Italy. Three universities, together with the largest research area of the CNRR, the University Hospital, the Monasterio and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, create a stimulating environment where talents, scholars and scholars meet, work and work for scientific growth and to the development of our country “.