The PLACES where people work and study at UNITO play a fundamental role and must be adequately improved. The University of Turin intends to embark on transforming its spaces to enhance the services and quality of community life, working on sustainable building projects in synergy with local stakeholders. With a view to adapting its facilities to the new requirements of learning, work and public use, the University will also pay particular attention to the development of digital spaces, identifying original technological solutions to achieve new goals in teaching innovation, broadening research horizons, sharing ideas and results, and improving decision support tools. In addition to being an essential focus for the city and for Piedmont, in the coming years UniTo intends to strengthen its role internationally, which starts with coordinating the UNITA Universitas Montium project, to make Europe the natural home to the quality and effectiveness of teaching and research.

To enrich society on a cultural and scientific level, students must enjoy freedom of movement to stimulate the exchange of ideas in an open and inclusive environment. Universities have always recognised the value of internationalisation, encouraging the mobility of teaching staff and students abroad. The dynamics of the contemporary world, however, see the horizons of internationalisation opening up to new demands of global sustainable development. This is the context in which the UNITA - Universitas Montium project has been set up: innovative collaboration between universities, aimed at enhancing teaching and research, and local synergies and reinforcing the values of European society. On the basis of this model, the University of Turin intends to foster internationalisation and interact with strategic international partners in order to develop collaboration networks that will make the University’s teaching and research more attractive abroad and strengthen its reputation. The UNITA project offers the University an important opportunity to reflect on and experiment with new solutions for teaching and research, working in synergy with the other international partners belonging to the Consortium. From a teaching point of view, teaching and learning times must be redefined by identifying more flexible forms of international mobility, be they traditional, virtual or mixed, of variable duration and offering the possibility of internships outside the university campuses. It will also be essential to increase the involvement of technical-administrative staff in mobility programmes, since one of the cornerstones of the European university is to offer everyone the chance of mobility. In line with its vocation as an international campus, the University intends to increase the teaching in foreign language by increasing the number of courses and programmes offered in other languages as well as the number of programmes with multidisciplinary degrees (joint, double, multiple). The UNITA project initiatives will strengthen this, developing research on European citizenship to increase awareness of European identity and providing tools to develop competence in the field of language inter-comprehension in order to increase multilingualism. With regard to international students, the University intends to help them settle in better and offer more Italian language courses.