Sapienza University of Rome is the largest university in Europe and the oldest of Rome’s three state-funded universities. Sapienza was founded in 1303, more than six centuries before and it has a wide range of fields of study that includes 370 first cycle and second cycle degrees and over 300 professional university masters .

The University of Torino has about 70.000 students, 4.000 academic, administrative and technical staff, 1800 post-graduate and post-doctoral students and 120 buildings in different parts of Torino and in key places in Piemonte.The University of Torino is open to an international perspective both in the field of research and training.

The University of Milan is the largest university in the region, and leading institute in Italy and Europe for scientific productivity. It is a public teaching and research university, which – with 9 faculties, 58 departments, 48 institutes and a teaching staff of 2,500 professors – is distinguished by its wide variety of disciplinary fields.