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There have been close relationships between the University of Trento and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden since the 1990s. The partnership has a special focus on joint double degree programmes. The first joint study programme was completed in 1997. Since then, there has been a regular exchange of lecturers and students.

Facts about the University of Trento

• comprehensive university (focal areas: sociology, engineering science, economics) with about 1,200 lecturers and about 16,000 students; ten faculties, four of which in humanities and social sciences
• international partnerships in the framework of the Euroregion Euregio (Tyrol – Alto Adige – Trentino) to encourage mobility between the universities of Trento, Bolzano and Innsbruck

• institutions associated with the University: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (research centre), Castello del Buonconsiglio – Monumenti e Collezioni provinciali (international meetings and conferences), MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto), MUSE (Museo delle Scienze), Fondazione Edmund Mach (research centre)

Funding for Cooperations with Trento

Current Actions

• Initiation trips of lecturers from Trento and Dresden

• Research stays of junior researchers at the respective partner universities

• joint double degree programmes

• since 2016 joint cotutelle doctoral programme