Special Projects

The University of Padua is committed to ensuring an open and inclusive educational environment for all students. To achieve this, the University develops and promotes projects that favour the right to study and the right to education for people in vulnerable situations by offering resources, skill assessment and activities both in and outside its classrooms.

The University Rehabilitation Project for Prisoners

With the support of the Department of Penitentiary Administration of the Italian Ministry of Justice, the university carries out a training activity project for inmates of the Triveneto Penitentiary Institute. To foster the re-education and social reintegration process, as foreseen in the Constitution of the Italian Republic, the project offers seminars to student inmates, judicial collaborators, correctional officers and all those involved in the re-education process. More information: www.unipd.it/polo-universitario-carcere

Engeneering for Africa

Developed between the University of Padua School of Engineering and the African National School of Public Works in Yaoundé, the Engineering for Africa Project is a teaching programme that offers courses in civil and environmental engineering. The project was activated in Camerun and has succeeded to build new professional skills that can be made available to the local community. The University of Padua also offers five Master Degrees programmes in Camerun on subjects ranging from sustainable-environmental friendly green building to water resource management. More information: www.dicea.unipd.it/corsi/engineering-for-africa