Università di Bologna

  

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The origins of the University of Bologna go way back. The Bologna Studium was founded by students and for students in 1088. It is thus considered to be the oldest university in the Western world. The university was granted a charter (Authentica habita) by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158.

The history of the University of Bologna is intertwined with that of the great names of science and literature, and it is a keystone and a point of reference for European culture. The list of famous alumni is endless. Let us mention here

Thomas Becket (1118-1170) Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) Raymond of Penyafort (1175-1275) Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988) Thomas (Nicholay) de Dundee (ca. 1240-1325)       Bruno Rossi (1905-1993) Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) Robert Henryson (1425-1500) Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Liliana Cavani (1933) Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Giorgio Armani (1934) Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Mazen Asfour (1953) Paracelsus (1493-1541) Juan Fernando López Aguilar (1961) Thomas (Lüber) Erastus (1524-1583) Hamida Barmaki (1970-2011) Laura Bassi (1711-1778) Alec Ross (1971) Carlo Matteucci (1811-1868) Rula Jebreal (1973)

In 1989, the Alma Mater Studiorum initiated a programme of decentralization throughout the region of Romagna, becoming the most extensive of all Italian universities. With campuses in Bologna, Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini, today it has more than 87,000 enrolled students.

The first dawning of the Forlì Campus was in 1989 when two novelties were set up in the town: a Degree Programme in Political Science with an International Political bias, and the then Scuola Superiore of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT).

Out of the SSLMIT, the Department of Interpretation and Translation (DIT) was established in October 2012, following an important reform of the Alma Mater Studiorum. For 30 years, we have trained highly skilled professional specialists in the fields of translation and interpreting.

Today, the Department offers a 3-Year B.A. in Intercultural and Linguistic mediation, a 2-year Master of Arts in Specialized Translation, a 2-year M.A. in Interpreting, and a 3-year PhD program in Translation, Interpreting and Multiculturality. Download a map of the campus.

A member of CIUTI, the DIT graduate programs belong to the EU Networks of European Masters in Translation and European Masters in Conference Interpreting, and to the EST worldwide network International Doctorate in Translation Studies.