General Information
The Sino-Italian
Campus was born in 2005, supported by the MIUR (Ministero dell’Università e della
Ricerca/ Ministry of Education, University and Research of Italy). Financially
supported by the Ministry and sponsored by Compagnia di San Paolo, the Campus
is the starting point of a collaboration between the two countries on the
higher education field.
The application
criteria are extremely selective. The main goal of the project is to help
creating a new Chinese managerial group open towards Italy and, at the same
time, to create a new Italian managerial group with knowledge of the Chinese
system.
Effective from September
2006, the Campus provides joint careers, coordinated by a mixed board of
Chinese and Italian teachers. For the Engineering area, the partners of the
project, called Politong, are Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano and
Tongji of Shanghai which is also the place where lessons are held.
A characteristic of
the Campus is the link and the integration between students from both
countries. From Politecnico di Torino side 136 Chinese students and 82 Italian
students have taken part into the project so far.