Collaboration agreement between the University of San Marino and the Salesian Pontifical University
The formal signing of the Framework Agreement between the University of the Republic of San Marino took place this morning in the press conference, in the presence of the Secretary of State for Education and Culture, Luigi War for the rector Corrado Petrocelli, and the Salesian Pontifical University, in the person of the rector Don Andrea Bozzolo.
At the signing ceremonyexplains in a note the state secretariat for education and culturefollowed at Palazzo Pubblico theAudience with the excellent Captains Regent, Oscar Mina and Paolo Rondelliwhich solemnly sanctioned the start of the collaboration.
L’Salesian Pontifical University it is one of the seven Pontifical Universities present in Rome. It is an Athenaeum dependent on the Holy See established in 1940 and started by the Congregation of Don Giovanni Bosco. It has 33 branches connected in different continents, teachers and students from almost one hundred nations, the areas of Theology, Philosophy, Educational Sciences, Christian and Classical Letters and Communication Sciences are cultivated.
The agreement, signed remotely and digitally in recent months, was formally sealed today in attendance on the occasion of the visit to San Marino by the Rector Magnificus and the representatives of the Salesian Pontifical University. The agreement establishes mutual cooperation in the field of university teaching, research and innovation and initiatives of mutual interest in the scientific, artistic and cultural fields. The memorandum of understanding provides for the activation of forms of collaboration in ambitions such as: there didacticthrough the implementation of common projects, the implementation of training courses designed jointly with the master’s degree, professional master’s degree, advanced training courses; job orientationalso through the creation of curricular or training and orientation internships; researchthrough the identification and development of research projects of mutual interest, the mutual mobility of PhD students and researchers, mutual access to research infrastructures, the promotion of joint publication and the dissemination and / or exploitation of research results; sharing of personnel for teaching, research and institutional activities; the realization of innovative and experimental projects on topics of mutual interest; the organization of seminars, symposia and talks on topics of common interest.
“Ours are two similar realities, both look with interest at the path of European integration, both train students from other countries and support them in their educational path, with the aim of offering them connections and exchanges. Don Bosco’s activity, which is so important to you, represents a precious point of reference also for the San Marino Youth Community, the Salesians have collaborated in the education and growth of ours. I am sure that through your academic activity you will continue St. John Bosco’s dream of making the talents handed out to every young person grow in a virtuous way “said the Secretary of State for Education and Culture, Andrea Belluzzi.
‘We do not only see the student, we see the person in his fullness and the development of his abilities and talents. We work with great commitment on interdisciplinarity, reconsidering university thinking so that specializations are not fragmented and fragmented but so that there is complementarity of knowledge. There is mutual esteem between our institutions, this framework agreement strengthens our academic relations and will quickly translate into projects of the pedagogical dimension “said the rector of the Salesian Pontifical University, Fr Andrea Bozzolo.