The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italian: Libera Università di Bolzano, German: Freie Universität Bozen) is a university located in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded on 31 October 1997 and is organized in 4 Faculties and 1 School.
The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB) aims to offer students a multilingual, practice-oriented education that meets the demands of the local and the European labour market. Lectures and seminars are held in German, Italian and English. The only exception here being the Faculty of Education, which offers German, Italian and Ladin speaking students separate training sections. The university offers study programmes ranging from bachelor degree up to doctoral.
The emphasis of teaching is to provide theoretically sound and practice-orientated training. A large proportion of educational activities take place as seminars, lectures given by guest-speakers, practical training and workshops. Within the framework of the academic exchange program students are encouraged to spend one or more semesters at universities abroad.
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