MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Open doors at Sacred Heart Catholic University for the “Universities Unveiled” initiative, the title of the new edition of the National Universities Day.
On Thursday, March 20, on the occasion of the initiative promoted by the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI) and the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI), the University is organizing a series of events aimed at citizens at some of its campuses. In Milan, the Bramantesque cloisters will be open to the public until 10 p.m. and it will be possible to participate in guided tours of the diffuse contemporary art exhibition “Esse Potest – Compresenze Impossibili” and some of the most historically and culturally interesting spaces on campus.
In particular, the visits will cover the “Gustavo Bontadini” underground classroom, created inside the icehouse of the former Cistercian monastery on which the Milan branch of the Athenaeum stands, and the “Cinquecentine” room of the library, containing particularly valuable artifacts, such as Sumerian tablets and papyri. The meeting will be in the Cortile d’Onore at the reservation time.
In Brescia, also on March 20, a section of the Esse Potest exhibition will be presented in Via Trieste where at 3:30 p.m. Pietro Corsi, professor at Oxford and internationally renowned scholar of the work of Galileo and Descartes, will speak for the fourth cycle of the Viganò Lectures on “Science and Religion Studies.” On the Mompiano campus, the exhibition “Intrecci musicali: incroci generativi tra StringArt e musica” will be opened.
Half-hour campus tours will be held in Piacenza and Cremona on Thursday 20. Starting from 3 to 6 p.m. in Piacenza (meeting in the Atrium d’Onore of the headquarters), every hour from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Cremona (from the entrance at 74 Via Bissolati, of the former Santa Monica Monastery).
The initiative called “Open Doors to the University” is carried out with the collaboration of both municipalities. The Day aims to emphasize the collaborative relationships between cities and Universities that have not only marked the urban planning of urban centers and become part of a city’s identity, but, as CRUI President Giovanna Iannantuoni recalled, increase “the growth of territories on a cultural and economic level,” and “accompany local administrators to face contemporary challenges,” from sustainability to digitization to welfare, fostering social cohesion.
A CRUI-sponsored survey on collaborations between universities and municipal governments in university towns found that 82 percent of universities have a framework agreement and 85 percent have a specific agreement with local governments. However, only 37 percent of universities have a delegate for relations with the municipality and only 24 percent sit on a joint committee, often because the municipality has never established one.
Faithful to its vocation as a university of Italian Catholics, a place of higher education with a national dimension and for this reason attentive to the needs of the territories in which the country is divided, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart has always cultivated relations with local entities and institutions on all its five campuses, establishing cultural, educational and scientific collaborations with the municipal administrations of the cities in which the campuses are located.
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