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Sant'Anna
School
of University Studies and Doctoral Research
The Sant'Anna School of University
Studies and Doctoral Research is a public institution for
university whose aims are to promote and advance scientific
Knowledge both through university study and also through doctoral
research.
The Sant'Anna School upholds the time-honoured and illustrious
traditions of colleges that preceded it, admitting students of
Faculties not present in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
which provides the model for regulations governing the School's
teaching activities and community life.
The traditional goal of the School is to train gifted young
scholars for scientific research and the teaching profession. An
eloquent testimony of this tradition is afforded by the great
number of university professors of the University of Pisa and
other Italian and foreign universities who are former students of
the School. The School also has a longstanding record of devoting
particular attention to the labor market as a whole, represented
by public bodies and firms, since these, together with an
academic career, constitute the natural outlets for its
graduates.
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Historical overview of the origins of the School
The Sant'Anna School of University
Studies and Doctoral Research of Pisa was set up in 1987 as a
result of the merger of the School of University Studies and
Doctoral Research with the Sant'Anna Conservatoire.
Both institutions could look back to a venerable tradition of
study. The School of University Studies and Doctoral Research can
be traced back in its conception, in the fields of discipline of
law and medicine, to the Ferdinand I College founded in 1593 at
the behest of the Grand Duke to admit students of the Faculties
of medicine and law, and to the Puteano College, founded in 1605
by Archbishop Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo to admit students of the
Faculties of medicine, law and philosophy who came from the town
of Biella. These institutions were later refounded with the
establishment in 1931 of the Mussolini College for Corporative
Sciences and the National Medical College in 1932, both of which
were linked to the Scuola Normale Superiore. In 1967 these
Colleges were detached from the parent institution and merged
with the Antonio Pacinotti School for Applied Sciences, which had
in the meantime been set up in 1951 to admit students of the
Faculties of Agrarian Studies, Economics and Engineering.
The establishment of the School of University Studies and
Doctoral Research, ratified by Act of Law, Act No. 117 of 7th.
March 1967, thus brought to accomplishment an organic plan of
merger of pre-existing institutions, sharing the common aim of
training and assisting deserving students and operating in the
two broad fields of discipline of the Social Sciences and Applied
and Experimental Sciences, composed of the Faculties of
Economics, Law and Political Sciences and the Faculties of
Agrarian Studies, Engineering and Medicine respectively.
The Sant'Anna Conservatoire was instituted in 1785 for the
education of young ladies, by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of
Lorraine, on the premises of a thirteenth-century Benedictine
cloister for nuns dedicated to St. Anne and the adjacent convent
of St. Jerome, formerly occupied by the Gesuate Brothers
(1471-1668). The suppression of religious orders (1770-1785)
enabled the Grand Duke to accomplish this modification as part of
his overall design for the establishment of Conservatoires for
young ladies in various towns of the Grand Duchy. Similarly to
the other Conservatoires, the Sant'Anna Conservatoire was also
placed under the direct governance of the Secretarial Office of
the Royal Grand-Ducal Authority and, following Italian
unification, of the Ministry of Education.
The Act of I.aw No. 41 of 14th. Feb. 1987 established that the
Sant'Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research
should gather together in a single institution both the School of
University Studies and Doctoral Research and the Sant'Anna
Conservatoire. These thus jointly gave rise to an institution
having status as a recognized legal entity and enjoying
administrative autonomy, on the model of the Scuola Normale
Superiore which has long been renowned as a school of
distinguished learning in the field of arts and sciences.
The birth of the Sant'Anna School of University Studies and
Doctoral Research thus provides confirmation of the special
vocation of Pisa as the seat of academic institutions on the
model of a University college, working side by side and in mutual
support with the University of Pisa, as centres for the promotion
of scientific knowledge and attracting eminent scholars from
every region of Italy and from abroad.
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