Academic Year 2021-2022
On Friday 6 May 2022, the traditional and solemn ceremony took place in the lecture hall of the Belgrano palace: at the end, Rector Francesco Mola gave the traditional opening formula. Institutional greetings of the President of the Region of Sardinia Christian Solinas, opening speech by Pietro Corsi, professor emeritus of History of Science at the University of Oxford (title: Liaisons dangereuses: the science between war and peace), conclusions of the work entrusted to the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa. Orsola Macis was the technical, administrative and librarian staff representant, while Francesco Stochino was student representative.
SPEECHES
- Address by the Rector, Francesco Mola
- Prolusion by Professor Pietro Corsi
- TAL Staff Representative, Orsola Macis
- Student Representative Francesco Stochino, from Cagliari’s Ersu Board
NEWS
MEDIA
The inauguration of the academic year 2020-2021, Thursday 4 March 2021, was streamed live from the lecture hall of the Rectorate of the University of Cagliari; at the end of the ceremony, on the anniversary of the four centuries of activity of the university, a marble plaque, with a celebratory epigraph of the important milestone, was discovered. On the occasion, greetings were also sent by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the Minister for University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, and, in video, by Crui President, Ferruccio Resta, and the Sardinian President, Christian Solinas. The solemn ceremony was enriched by the prolusion Immunity, from cancer to Covid-19: dreams and challenges of the well-known immunologist and oncologist Alberto Mantovani, followed by the speeches of Piera Caocci, who represented students, by Marta Costa, who represented the university staff, and then the reports of the prorectors Micaela Morelli (Research), Alessandra Carucci (Internationalisation) and Ignazio Putzu (Teaching). Finally, the speeches and institutional relations of Aldo Urru, Director General, and Maria Del Zompo, Rector, who in her final report also retraced the main stages and the most qualifying points of the work carried out during her mandate at the head of the university.
DOCUMENTS
- Inauguration ceremony program
- Rector, Maria Del Zompo
- Report of the General Director, Aldo Urru
- Prorector Micaela Morelli (Research) speech
- Prorector Alessandra Carucci (Internationalisation) speech
- Prorector Ignazio Putzu (Teaching) speech
- Student representative Piera Caocci speech
- TAL staff representative Marta Costa speech
- Presentation of the epigraph curated by Antonio Piras
VIDEO
On Friday 8 November 8, 2019, the solemn ceremony for the official inauguration of the 2019/20 academic year took place in Palazzo Belgrano’s lecture hall, seat of the Rectorate of Cagliari.
The speech of the Rector Maria Del Zompo was followed by the speeches of the staff representative Stefania Lecca, the student representative Francesco Aracu and, finally, the speech of the distinguished Governor of the Bank of Italy, Professor Ignazio Visco, on the theme "Innovation, knowledge, finance", who was introduced by Professor Maria Chiara Di Guardo, prorector of Innovation.
SPEECHES
- Rector, Maria Del Zompo
- President of the Student Council, Francesco Aracu
- TAL staff representative, Stefania Lecca
- Governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco: "Innovation, knowledge, finance"
VIDEOS
On Friday 12 October 2018, the solemn ceremony for the official inauguration of the academic year 2018/19 took place in Palazzo Belgrano’s lecture hall, the seat of the Rectorate of Cagliari. The speech of the Rector Maria Del Zompo was followed by the speeches of the staff representative Ernesto Batteta, the student representative Sara Agus and the speech of the distinguished professor Carlo Ratti, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the theme "Senseable Cities", who was introduced by Professor Antonello Sanna, of UniCa’s Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering, and Architecture.
SPEECHES
- Rector, Maria Del Zompo
- Representative of the Student Council, Sara Agus, speech
- TAL staff representative, Ernesto Batteta, speech
- "Senseable Cities" Lecture by Professor Carlo Ratti
VIDEOS
- Full video of the inauguration ceremony
- Speech by the rector, Maria Del Zompo
- Speech by Professor Carlo Ratti
NEWS
The solemn inauguration ceremony of the2017/18 Academic Year of the University of Cagliari - in the 397th year since the Royal Privilege of Foundation - took place on Monday 2 October 2017 in the lecture hall of the Rectorate Palace, in the presence of the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella.
Inauguration in the presence of the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella
SPEECHES
- Address by the Rector, Maria Del Zompo / Slides
- TAL staff representative Sonia Melis speech
- Student representative Roberto Vacca speech
- Professor Elena Cattaneo Lecture, "Research as a driving force of knowledge and public ethics"
VIDEOS
NEWS UNICA.IT
The program of the ceremony includes the speech of Rector Maria Del Zompo, as well as the speeches of the staff representative, Dr Elsa Lusso, and the student representative, Mr Carlo Sanna and, finally, Professor Romano Prodi’s (also President of the Foundation for Cooperation between Peoples) prolusion "A fragile Europe in the global strategy". Afterwards, the musical performance "Bah miticoi ca" by Rossella Faa.
SPEECHES
- Rector Maria Del Zompo speech
- Student representative Carlo Sanna speech
- TAL staff representative Elsa Lusso speech
VIDEO
NEWS
SPEECHES
- Rector Maria Del Zompo
- Professor Enrico Berti Prolusion: "The rediscovery of ethics in contemporary culture"
- Student representative, Francesca Serra
- TAL staff representative, Roberta Silvagni
NEWS
VIDEO
POSTERS
A selection of the posters presented for the inauguration of the Academic Year 2015/2016 by each Departments of the University (Rectorate of Cagliari, 10 December 2015). The exhibition was curated by Stefano Asili, Caterina Giannattasio, Maria Serena Pirisino – Poster’s graphic by Stefano Asili, Matteo Buccoli, Francesca Oggiano, Claudio Rossi.
- Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics
- Physics Department
- Law Department
- Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences
- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
- Department of Economics and Business Sciences
- Department of Medical Sciences "M. Aresu"
- Department of Social and Institutional Sciences
- Department of History, Cultural Heritage, and Territory
