Founded in 1868, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia is a leading university in Italy in Economics and Management, Humanities, Languages and Literature, Science.
With more than 22,000 students and nearly 1,400 staff, UNIVE is organised into 8 Departments, 3 Schools and an International College, committed to developing the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics through collaboration across disciplines, advanced research projects and innovative study programs.
Thanks to a strong internationalisation policy, Ca’ Foscari courses (34 bachelor’s degree programmes, 57 master’s degree programmes, 17 PhD programmes and 37 Professional Master’s Programmes), together with a wide portfolio of international programmes, both in Italian and in English, attract an ever-increasing number of talented foreign students.
The University has an outstanding national and international reputation for academic excellence in the fields of teaching and research We have excellent results in national rankings, such as CENSIS, and are listed in the major international rankings: QS World University Ranking, THE World University Rankings and Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
Ca’ Foscari University attracts funding from regional, national and international programmes. It has a long-standing tradition in research and well established experience in EU funded projects: almost 400 projects have been awarded since 2014, of which 190 within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme and 123 within Horizon Europe. Furthermore many grants have been obtained within EU DGs grants, Territorial Cooperation Programmes, Life, Creative Europe, with Ca’ Foscari participating as Lead Partner or Partner for a total of more than 128M€ awards (60.7M€ in Horizon 2020 and almost 50M€ in Horizon Europe so far). It is a top Host Institution with more than 200 Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship awarded, a Cofund Fellowship programme, over 30 ERC grants and an active and continuous participation in competitive research and collaborative programmes.
The University participation in European and International calls has been enhanced through six Interdisciplinary Research Institutes established within the ‘Research for Global Challenges’ initiative that aims at encouraging international partnerships and fostering the most promising interdisciplinary collaborative research project. The six Research Institutes bring together research strengths from across the University and from its strategic partners, including local, national, and international stakeholders, to promote an interdisciplinary approach to research. They were mapped onto the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs.
Ca’ Foscari obtained the full Human Resources Strategy for Researchers certificate awarded by the Evaluating Committee in 2017. On 13 October 2023, the University hosted the site visit of the European Commission's assessors. They reconfirmed the HR Excellence in Research Award for the next three year, a label of excellence for Institutions that are concretely committed to improving recruitment and career development conditions of their Research Community.
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia organises around 800 cultural and scientific events per year, it is involved in several international research networks, has established 150 cooperation agreements with some of the most prestigious universities and international bodies in Europe and worldwide, develops fruitful relationship with business and productive world fostering knowledge exchange, innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship.