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Accrediting Body:
Conferenza dei Presidi delle Facoltà di Ingegneria Italiane
Tel: +39 06 4458 5702/5155
Fax: +39 06 488 4852
Email: sandra.placereani@amm.uniud.it
URL: www.confpresing.it
Accreditation Process:
The Conferenza dei Presidi delle Facoltà di Ingegneria Italiane (in short Conferenza dei Presidi di Ingegneria): Conference of Deans of Italian Engineering Faculties) has been active for more than 30 years as the coordinating group of all Italian Schools of Engineering. In these decades, it has been instrumental in formulating and implementing legislative and operative reforms affecting engineering education. In the last few years, it has devoted much of its efforts to the establishment of a system of quality assurance and accreditation of Engineering Education: its proposed SINAI (SIstema Nazionale di Accreditamento dei corsi di studio in Ingegneria: National System for Accreditation of Engineering Programmes) has been taken as the model for a general Accreditation Scheme of Italian University Education that is now under test in the Pilot Project "Campus One", run by CRUI (Italian National Conference of University Rectors) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
The Conferenza dei Presidi delle Facoltà di Ingegneria Italiane has been recently formally established as a non-profit organization under Italian Civil Law.
Italian higher education is organized in a binary system and articulated in the two following sectors:
- university education
- non-university education
The university sector consists of 77 institutions subdivided into two main categories:
- State universities (63 institutions)
- non-State universities legally recognized by the competent State authority (14 institutions).
