Mission and vision

I am proud to introduce the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan to the Alma Mater community and to our whole society, which we are committed to.

This Strategic Plan will be our compass that will guide our actions over the next six years. It has been drafted as a result of a participatory discussion within the Academic Bodies and all the University departments. 

It is the sixth Strategic Plan of our Alma Mater since 2007. It is the first and last of my term of office as Rector, as it will cover its entire duration.

We intend to use strategic planning also as a tool to deliver the goals aimed at seizing the opportunities provided by the national Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

But this is not the only novelty. The 2022-2027 Strategic Plan envisages an annual monitoring and a three-year review, in order to progressively focus on our development goals. In addition to the traditional areas – education, research and third mission – the Strategic Plan is centred on people, since we acknowledge that our community is a founding pillar of all our future actions, as well as a key factor that requires our utmost attention.

It relies on the tenets underlying our Statute, which translate into tangible goals and new rights.

Its goals also cover relations with the Italian National Health Service.

Hence, given these key features, amongst others, the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan fully reflects the acknowledgement that we can indeed provide a substantial contribution to the creation of public value.

The Strategic Plan draws inspiration from its deeply-rooted values, clear and ambitious political goals and guidelines, which are worthy of our longstanding history and ideals.

 
Giovanni Molari

Rector

Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

Its longstanding history, daily efforts and constant forward-looking perspective enable the University of Bologna to be a community of people, thus allowing seemingly incompatible values and goals to coexist, to be harmoniously integrated and mutually strengthened.

• A University with a Multicampus that constantly grows in numbers and size and aims at attaining the best education and scientific quality.
• A University that boasts an over nine-century-old history and is committed to constantly innovating and reinventing itself.
• A University that is deeply rooted in its local community, which is increasingly more open to the rest of the world.
• A University that has always been a place of general studies and strives to excel in each field of knowledge.
• A University that is able to be competitive and successful, but most of all that is able to cooperate for the benefit of its entire community.
• A University that pursues pure and free research and constantly cares for the social and educational impact of its research.
• A University that strives towards inclusion and is able to enhance the talents and merits of each and every individual person.

All these ingredients make up the Alma Mater Studiorum - in the light of the new opportunities that the future stores, as well as the new challenges to be addressed due to the increasingly complex economic and social context.

Our mission is to reiterate and strengthen our multifaceted identity and values, which we are proud of and which we are all committed to nurture every day.