Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

University of Naples, the computer classroom
The Compagnia’s commitment to the Federico II University in Naples
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The Compagnia also intervenes in the field of university and
post-graduate education outside the Turin area, in favour of
university activities established in geographical areas of
specific interest for the Compagnia (also on the basis of
relationships established with other foundations) or when
such universities have started up cooperation with the Turin
universities or with the Compagnia’s permanent
organisations. The Federico II University falls into the first
category, also in the light of the “Planned Co-operation
Agreement” signed on 7 December 2002 between the
Compagnia and the Foundation Istituto Banco di Napoli.
The Federico II University in Naples – the second largest
University in the country after the University of Rome, with
approximately 96,000 students and 2,900 teachers and
researchers – has an extremely important library system,
which includes approximately 160 structures, to which the
University is giving particular attention in terms of
automation and the constitution of a digital library, with a
University open archive, as well as the integration and
unification of the data of the University Catalogue, projects
supported by the Compagnia with grants of respectively
€ 190,000 and € 230,000. Among the projects supported
by the Compagnia to be implemented by 2006, is an
integrated system of support for the management of
teaching part of a larger technical project “Business
Intelligence”, which will be used for the procedure of
management control of teaching. The system will allow the
performance of different analyses for multidimensional
series of data and dynamic reporting, also from remote
terminals, operating directly on the databases of the
institutional system of the Student Secretariat. The
Compagnia has awarded a grant of € 276,000 for the
initiative. The system will be a useful instrument for the
phases of implementation, verification and evaluation of the
quality of the training offered and will help to make the
information campaigns aimed at high school students and
guidance initiatives for students/graduates more accurately
targeted. In order to encourage the process of university
renewal, which invests heavily in the use of new
technologies connected to teaching, infrastructure
investments will be made of “Informatizzazione leggera”
(light computerisation) for the classrooms: the fitting out of
50 classrooms with a grant by the Compagnia of € 240,000
– spread out within the different faculties now dedicated to
classroom teaching – with video projection equipment and
Internet access. In the last two years approximately 60 of
these have been produced (roughly four classrooms per
faculty), within the scope of the Campus One project.
During 2004 the Compagnia also awarded grants in favour
of individual initiatives of advance training, performed by
individual structures of the University in the economic and
financial field for a total of € 312,000.