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International Advisory Board @ SSSA – Pisa, 2011

Maria Chiara Carrozza

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Direttore

International Advisory Board @ SSSA – Pisa, 2011 2

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


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.


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


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


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


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




Qualityoffice

Centres&Laboratories


Honors College Students


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)


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


Microengineering

Communication and Informatics

Virtual Reality

Biotechnology

BioRobotics Agricultural Science

Research: ExperimentalSciences


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





• Strategic Plan: ideasfor future development



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


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


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


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


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


0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Allievi Perfezionandi

M

F


0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

Ricercatori TD

M

F


30

32

34

36

38

40

Età media Ricercatori TDAssistant professors (DT) Average age of assistant professors (DT)

PhD students Average age of PhDstudents


Research fellowships


0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Assegnisti

M

F


30

31

32

33

34

35

Età media AssegnistiResearch fellowships Average age of research fellowships


� 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


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


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


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


Research Exploitation (some examples)


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


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


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


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


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


Questions ?

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