(Finance) – TheLuiss University celebrated today, Wednesday 10 January, in the Aula Magna of the Viale Pola Campus, theinauguration of the 2023-2024 Academic Year in the presence of its leaders and with the intervention of an exceptional guest: Paola Cortellesiactress, screenwriter and director, protagonist of the great success of the film “There’s Still Tomorrow”.
“Rights, inclusion and support to the credit are the values that we try to convey to our students every day and which find, in Paola Cortellesi, an extraordinary ambassador. Stimulating the sensitivity and awareness of young people on crucial issues such as these means enrich their education and strengthen the commitment and responsibility of Luiss as an international University, open to the challenges of the future and connected with the real world”, commented the Luiss President, Luigi Gubitosi.
The University named after Guido Carli has, in the year just concluded, improved its position in the global rankings of Higher Education, starting from first place in Italy, second in Europe and fourteenth in the world for Political and International Studies in the prestigious QS Ranking by subject 2023. Also during 2023, he reached 30th place in the Financial Times Masters in Management ranking, gaining over twenty positions. Also in terms of sustainability, according to the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, Luiss is the 15th greenest university and first for the “Energy and Climate Change” category at a global level.
“The role of our University is to educate future global leaders in diversity who will manage the complexity of the geopolitical, economic, legal and technological challenges that accelerate and transform the world. Students, in fact, will have to acquire new skills, training yourself to ask questions, solve problems and explore innovative solutions. Learning to unlearn: this will be the ability that will allow them to reinvent themselves in the course of careers that are no longer linear and conventional”, declared the Rector Andrea Principe.
The Free International University of Social Studies, with over 50% of the courses delivered in English, including the two new three-year degree courses in “Management and Artificial Intelligence” and “Global Law” starting next September, recorded in 2023 a new record in admission applications, with an increase of 14% compared to the 2021-2022 academic year. An ability to attract talent which is made stronger by the great attention to the valorisation of merit, with over 1,400 scholarships also aimed at foreign candidates and with international calls for academics who wish to teach in Italy.
“If we retrace the path to gender equality, in the inspiration of our Constitution, we note important achievements along the distinct and complementary lines of the public and private spheres. Some, however, have been fully achieved decades after their entry into force of our constitutional charter. There is still a long way to go, an important challenge for young people. Education, training, school, university and the sense of legality and recognition of merit are crucial in achieving the fundamental result of gender equality,” she said Professor Paola Severino, President of the Luiss School of Law.
Precisely on the trajectories of diversity andfemale empowerment, Luiss has organized in recent years, and continues to promote, numerous opportunities for meetings and debates. These platforms for reflection and in-depth analysis on the constructive value of social inclusion represent one of the pillars of the University’s Gender Equality Plan, an analysis and programming tool which, as early as 2022, allows the path towards effective gender equality to be assessed as envisaged by the ‘Objective n. 5 of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Furthermore, the connection with the world of work is increasingly consolidated: there are more than 500 companies and institutions partnering with the University, a strong link that contributes to maintaining a high employment rate for graduates who, one year after obtaining of the title, over 96% is confirmed.
Finally, Luiss Guido Carli continues its growth beyond national borders, a point of reference for a cosmopolitan community that counts 58,000 Alumni in 134 countries and more than 10 thousand students of 102 nationalities. Around 3,000 girls and boys are involved this year in outgoing and incoming mobility initiatives, including 78 double and triple degree programmes, created in partnership with over 310 universities in 65 countries.