Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz, Italian: Libera Università di Bolzano, German: Freie Universität Bozen, Ladin: Università Liedia de Bulsan) is a university located mainly in Bolzano in the South Tyrol region of northern Italy.博尔扎诺自由大学（缩写 unibz，意大利语「Libera Università di Bolzano」，德语「Freie Universität Bozen」，拉定语「Università Liedia de Bulsan」）是意大利北部南蒂罗尔地区的一所大学，主校区位于博尔扎诺。

It was founded on 31 October 1997 by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano, and it is organised into five faculties whose courses are taught in German, Italian and English.该校由博尔扎诺自治省於 1997 年 10 月 31 日创办，设有五个学院，课程以德语、意大利语与英语授课。

With about 4,000 students and a student-to-staff ratio around 10.4, the university is regularly placed among the top small universities worldwide, and the QS World University Rankings 2027 put it at 608th.该校约有 4000 名学生，师生比约为 10.4，常年位居全球最佳小型大学之列，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 608 位。

History

• South Tyrol was transferred from Austria to Italy under the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1919, a change that shaped the province's German-, Italian- and Ladin-speaking character.南蒂罗尔依 1919 年《圣日耳曼条约》由奥地利划归意大利，这一变更塑造了该省德语、意大利语与拉定语并存的语言格局。

• The Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement of 1946 between Austria and Italy promised the German-speaking population of South Tyrol a measure of self-government.1946 年奥地利与意大利签订的《格鲁伯-德加斯佩里协定》，向讲德语的南蒂罗尔居民承诺了一定程度的自治。

• The Second Statute of Autonomy, adopted in 1972, gave the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano wide legislative powers, including authority over education and culture.1972 年通过的第二自治法规赋予博尔扎诺自治省广泛的立法权，其中涵盖教育与文化事务的权限。

• It was that provincial autonomy which allowed Bozen-Bolzano to found its own university on 31 October 1997 as a non-state institution under provincial law.正是该省自治权限，使博尔扎诺得以於 1997 年 10 月 31 日依省法创办自己的大学，并将其设为一所非国立（非国家办）机构。

• The university was created as a third, Italian non-state university, adding to Italy's small group of legally recognised private and provincial universities.该校作为意大利第三所非国立大学而设立，壮大了意大利获法律承认的私立与省办大学群体。

• Its founding in the 1990s answered a long-standing demand for higher education in South Tyrol that would serve all three of the province's language groups.其於 1990 年代的创办，回应了南蒂罗尔长期以来对高等教育的诉求，即要服务该省全部三个语言群体。

• The Luxembourg economist Alfred Steinherr served as the university's first rector from 1998 to 2003, setting its early academic direction.卢森堡籍经济学家阿尔弗雷德·施泰因赫尔於 1998 至 2003 年出任该校首任校长，奠定了其早期学术方向。

• The Swiss linguist Rita Franceschini was rector from 2004 to 2008, a period in which the university's multilingual profile was consolidated.瑞士籍语言学家丽塔·弗兰切斯基尼於 2004 至 2008 年任校长，任内该校的多语特色得以巩固。

• The buildings of the Bolzano campus were designed by the Zurich architects Matthias Bischoff and Roberto Azzola of Zurich, and the Brixen buildings by Regina Kohlmeyer and Jens Oberst from Stuttgart.博尔扎诺校区的建筑由苏黎世建筑师马蒂亚斯·比朔夫与罗伯托·阿佐拉设计，布里克森的建筑则由斯图加特的雷吉娜·科尔迈尔与延斯·奥伯斯特设计。

• One of the campus buildings won the ninth architecture prize of the city of Oderzo in 2005, recognising the quality of the university's built environment.其中一处校园建筑於 2005 年获奥代尔佐市第九届建筑奖，认可了该校建筑环境的品质。

• The German sociologist Walter Lorenz served as rector from 2008 to 2016, after which the Italian engineer Paolo Lugli led the university from 2017 to 2024.德国籍社会学家瓦尔特·洛伦茨於 2008 至 2016 年任校长，其后由意大利籍工程师保罗·卢利自 2017 年至 2024 年执掌该校。

• The Faculty of Economics and Management introduced a multidisciplinary Studium Generale course in 2011, opening a range of lectures to students across the university.经济与管理学院於 2011 年开设多学科的「通识学程」，向全校学生开放一系列讲座。

• Since 1998 the university has carried out 917 projects of basic and applied research, a total that reflects its growth into a research-active institution.自 1998 年以来，该校共开展 917 项基础与应用研究项目，此总数反映出它已成长为科研活跃的机构。

• Alex Weissensteiner, a professor of quantitative finance, has been rector since 2024, having completed his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck.量化金融学教授亚历克斯·魏森施泰纳自 2024 年起任校长，其博士学业完成於因斯布鲁克大学。

• Its campus architecture and its location in a trilingual autonomous province have made the university a distinctive case among Italian institutions of higher education.其校园建筑与身处三语自治省的位置，使该校成为意大利高等院校中一个别具特色的案例。

• The university's creation followed decades of debate in South Tyrol about whether the province should have its own university or continue sending students to Innsbruck, Padua and Vienna.该校的创办经历了南蒂罗尔数十年的争论，即该省应自设大学，还是继续把学生送往因斯布鲁克、帕多瓦与维也纳求学。

• The Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano passed the founding act of the university in 1997, exercising the educational powers devolved to it under the 1972 statute of autonomy.博尔扎诺自治省於 1997 年通过创办法令，行使 1972 年自治法规下放给该省的教育权限。

• The university began teaching in the years immediately after 1997, growing from a handful of programmes into five faculties over the course of the 2000s.该校在 1997 年之后的数年间开始授课，并在 2000 年代自少数几个专业扩展为五个学院。

Academics

• The university is organised into five faculties: Economics and Management, Education, Engineering, Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, and Design and Art.该校分为五个学院，即经济与管理学院、教育学院、工程学院、农业、环境与食品科学学院，以及设计与艺术学院。

• The Faculty of Economics and Management is based in Bolzano and offers four bachelor's, five master's and three PhD degree programmes.经济与管理学院设于博尔扎诺，开设 4 个本科、5 个硕士与 3 个博士专业。

• The Faculty of Education is based in Brixen and offers three bachelor's, three master's and one PhD programme, focused on education, social dynamics and language.教育学院设于布里克森，开设 3 个本科、3 个硕士与 1 个博士专业，聚焦教育、社会动态与语言。

• The Faculty of Engineering is based in Bolzano and offers five bachelor's, five master's and three PhD degree programmes.工程学院设于博尔扎诺，开设 5 个本科、5 个硕士与 3 个博士专业。

• The Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences is based in Bolzano and offers two bachelor's, four master's and two PhD programmes.农业、环境与食品科学学院设于博尔扎诺，开设 2 个本科、4 个硕士与 2 个博士专业。

• The Faculty of Design and Art is based in Bolzano and offers two bachelor's and two master's programmes, and it operates a fab lab named Bitz open to outside users.设计与艺术学院设于博尔扎诺，开设 2 个本科与 2 个硕士专业，并运营一处名为「Bitz」、对校外用户开放的创客工坊。

• Courses are taught in German, Italian and English, a trilingual arrangement that reflects the language groups of the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano.课程以德语、意大利语与英语授课，这一三语安排体现了博尔扎诺自治省的语言群体构成。

• The Faculty of Computer Science is active in European Master Programmes, running the European Master in Computational Logic and the European Master on Software Engineering under Erasmus Mundus.其计算机科学学院积极参与欧洲硕士项目，在伊拉斯谟世界计划下开设「计算逻辑欧洲硕士」与「软件工程欧洲硕士」。

• The university was recognised by the European Union as a leader among the research centres taking part in those European Master Programmes.该校被欧洲联盟认定为参与上述欧洲硕士项目的研究中心中的领先者。

• A multidisciplinary Studium Generale course, running since 2011, offers lectures in fields of general interest to students across all faculties.自 2011 年起开设的多学科「通识学程」，为各学院学生提供通识领域的讲座。

• The university conducts its research at scientific and technological laboratories on each of its sites, at the NOI Techpark innovation hub and at the Laimburg agronomy research centre.该校在各地点的科技实验室、NOI 科技园的创新枢纽，以及莱姆堡农业研究中心开展研究。

• The Bozen-Bolzano Institutional Archive gathers the research output of the university together with that of Eurac Research and the Laimburg Research Centre.博尔扎诺机构文库汇集了该校与 Eurac 研究所、莱姆堡研究中心的研究产出。

• Its research output recorded by OpenAlex amounts to about 15,095 works with 548,907 citations, and the institutional archive logged 3,310 works for 2024 alone.OpenAlex 记录该校约 1.5 万件作品、被引 548907 次，机构文库仅 2024 一年即录得 3310 件成果。

• The Faculty of Economics and Management was ranked 151st to 175th among the best 2,800 universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，经济与管理学院位居全球 2800 所最佳大学中的第 151-175 名区间。

• The economics faculty's four bachelor's, five master's and three doctoral programmes make it one of the university's largest academic units.该院 4 个本科、5 个硕士与 3 个博士专业，使其成为校内规模最大的教学单位之一。

• The Faculty of Education's main research areas include educational development projects, social cohesion and citizenship, and languages for a multicultural society.教育学院的主要研究领域包括教育发展项目、社会凝聚与公民意识，以及面向多元文化社会的语言。

• The Faculty of Design and Art researches visual culture and its impact on society, three-dimensional projects and the theories and languages of design and art.设计与艺术学院研究视觉文化及其社会影响、三维项目，以及设计与艺术的理论与语言。

• Teaching runs from bachelor's degrees up to doctoral study, and degrees are awarded across the five faculties in the province's three official languages and English.教学层次自本科直至博士研究，五个学院以该省三种官方语言及英语授予学位。

• The five faculties together run some 44 degree programmes, from bachelor's through master's to doctoral level, distributed across the two campus cities.五个学院合计开设约 44 个学位专业，自本科、硕士直至博士层次，分布于两座校区城市。

• It works alongside neighbouring institutions such as Innsbruck University, Padua University and Trento University in the wider Alpine and north-eastern Italian academic region.该校与因斯布鲁克大学、帕多瓦大学与特伦托大学等邻近院校，在更广的阿尔卑斯及意大利东北部学术区域中相互协作。

• The university's own publishing house, Bolzano University Press, issues its academic publications, including the multi-volume Universitas Est on Tyrolean educational history.该校自有的出版机构博尔扎诺大学出版社刊行其学术出版物，其中包括记述蒂罗尔教育史的多卷本《Universitas Est》。

Campus

• The university has two main campuses, in Bolzano and in Brixen, with teaching and research also conducted at the NOI Techpark in Bolzano.该校设有两处主要校区，分别位于博尔扎诺与布里克森，教学与研究亦在博尔扎诺的 NOI 科技园进行。

• The Bolzano campus lies in South Tyrol, an autonomous province in northern Italy bordering Austria, in the eastern Alps.博尔扎诺校区位于意大利北部、与奥地利接壤的南蒂罗尔自治省，地处东阿尔卑斯山区。

• The university's recorded geographic position is latitude 46.490669 and longitude 11.33982, placing it in the Adige valley at Bolzano.该校登记的地理坐标为北纬 46.490669、东经 11.33982，位于博尔扎诺所在的阿迪杰河谷。

• The buildings in Bolzano were designed by the Zurich architects Matthias Bischoff and Roberto Azzola, and the Brixen premises by Regina Kohlmeyer and Jens Oberst from Stuttgart.博尔扎诺的建筑由苏黎世建筑师马蒂亚斯·比朔夫与罗伯托·阿佐拉设计，布里克森的校舍则由斯图加特的雷吉娜·科尔迈尔与延斯·奥伯斯特设计。

• A campus building won the ninth architecture prize of the city of Oderzo in 2005, an award that recognised the design of the university's premises.一处校园建筑於 2005 年获奥代尔佐市第九届建筑奖，该奖表彰了该校校舍的设计。

• Teaching and research are also conducted in Bruneck and at the Versuchszentrum Laimburg, an agronomy research institute associated with the university.教学与研究亦在布鲁内克以及莱姆堡试验中心进行，该中心是与该校相关联的农学研究机构。

• Scientific and technological laboratories operate at each of the university's sites, supporting the engineering, science and design faculties.该校在各处地点均设有科技实验室，支撑工程、科学与设计等学院的教学研究。

• The university's web estate runs on the unibz.it domain, which carries its official website and multilingual admissions information.该校的网络运行于 unibz.it 域下，承载其官方网站与多语种招生信息。

• Bolzano, the provincial capital, lies in a valley between the Alps, giving the university a compact urban campus integrated into the city.省会博尔扎诺坐落於阿尔卑斯山之间的河谷，使该校形成一处融入城市的紧凑城区校园。

• Brixen, the second campus city, is a historic town in the Eisack valley some 40 kilometres north of Bolzano and houses the Faculty of Education.第二座校区城市布里克森是艾萨克河谷中的历史城镇，位于博尔扎诺以北约 40 公里，教育学院即设於此。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, the edition to which this entry belongs, the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is placed at 608th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，也就是本条目所属的榜单版本，博尔扎诺自由大学列全球第 608 位。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 401-450 band, its strongest position among the main tables used here.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 401-450 档，是本条目所采各主榜中的最佳位置。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table the university is listed at 949th, a numeric rank carried in that ranking.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校列第 949 位，为该榜所载的具体名次。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, so it is absent from that year's ARWU main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未录该校名次，故其缺席当年该榜主榜。

• In the 2025 Times Higher Education World's Best Small Universities ranking the university was placed among the best ten small universities worldwide.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育全球最佳小型大学排名中，该校入列全球最佳十所小型大学。

• Its Faculty of Economics and Management was ranked 151st to 175th among the best 2,800 universities in the THE World University Rankings 2025, a subject-level placing.其经济与管理学院在 2025 年泰晤士世界大学排名中列 2800 所最佳大学的第 151-175 名区间，属学科层面的名次。

• The university reports about 15,095 works and 548,907 citations in OpenAlex, its institutional archive logging 3,310 works for 2024 alone.OpenAlex 记录该校约 1.5 万件作品与 548907 次被引，其机构文库仅 2024 年即录得 3310 件成果。

• Its 917 basic and applied research projects since 1998 sit alongside partnerships with the NOI Techpark and Laimburg, embedding it in South Tyrol's innovation system.其自 1998 年以来的 917 项基础与应用研究项目，连同与 NOI 科技园及莱姆堡的合作，使其嵌入南蒂罗尔的创新体系。

• Nationally it is recognised as one of Italy's non-state universities, funding itself largely through the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano rather than the national system.在国内它被认定为意大利的非国立大学之一，其经费主要来自博尔扎诺自治省而非国家体系。

• Its research spans agriculture, engineering, computer science, economics, education, design and art, matching the five-faculty structure of the university.其研究涵盖农业、工程、计算机科学、经济、教育、设计与艺术，与其五学院建制相互对应。

Student life

• The university records no single formal Latin motto in its public material, and its identity is carried instead by its trilingual teaching and provincial founding.校方公开材料未见单一正式拉丁校训，其身份更多由其三语教学与省办渊源承载。

• Members of the student advisory board are elected every two years, and student representatives sit on the University Council, the Academic Senate and the Faculty Councils.学生咨询委员会成员每两年选举一次，学生代表进入校务委员会、学术评议会及各院务委员会。

• The South Tyrolean Student Association, sh.asus, founded in 1955 as a non-profit, is the most important student association for South Tyrolean students.南蒂罗尔学生联合会 sh.asus 於 1955 年作为非营利组织成立，是该地区学生最重要的学生组织。

• sh.asus maintains its head office in Bolzano and seven branch offices in Austria and Italy, representing students in South Tyrol and those studying abroad.sh.asus 在博尔扎诺设总部，并在奥地利与意大利设七处分部，代表在南蒂罗尔求学的学生以及在外求学的南蒂罗尔学生。

• The M.U.A., Movimento Universitario Altoatesino, founded in 1993 and recognised by the province, defends students' right to study and organises conferences and debates.「M.U.A.」即上阿迪杰大学生运动，於 1993 年成立并获该省承认，维护学生的求学权并组织会议与辩论。

• Kikero, a cultural association founded in 2000, runs the university's debating club and movie nights and is responsible for the student magazine Kflyer.文化协会「Kikero」於 2000 年成立，主办学校的辩论社与电影之夜，并负责学生刊物《Kflyer》。

• SCUB, the Sports Club University Bozen-Bolzano, organises the SNOWDAYS, described as Europe's biggest winter-sport event for students from Italy and the EU.「SCUB」即博尔扎诺自由大学体育俱乐部，主办「SNOWDAYS」，号称意大利与欧盟学生规模最大的冬季运动活动。

• Further associations include an AIESEC local committee for international exchanges, PRO – Students for Business linking students to industry, and a choir called UnibzVoices.其他团体还包括负责国际交流的 AIESEC 地方委员会、联结学生与产业的「PRO – Students for Business」，以及名为「UnibzVoices」的合唱团。

• The choir UnibzVoices is conducted by Professor Johann Van der Sandt, who teaches music and communication at the Brixen College of Education.合唱团「UnibzVoices」由约翰·范德桑特教授指挥，他在布里克森教育学院教授音乐与传播。

• The Alumni Club, the most recent student association, gathers graduates of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and keeps them connected to the institution.最新成立的校友俱乐部汇聚博尔扎诺自由大学的毕业生，使他们与该机构保持联系。

• Between the magazine Kflyer, the choir, the sports club and the exchange committees, the small student body sustains an unusually dense associational life for its size.在学生刊物《Kflyer》、合唱团、体育俱乐部与交流委员会之间，这个不大的学生群体维系着与其规模不相称的密集社团生活。

Notable people

• Alfred Steinherr, a Luxembourg economist, served as the university's first rector from 1998 to 2003.卢森堡籍经济学家阿尔弗雷德·施泰因赫尔於 1998 至 2003 年出任该校首任校长。

• Rita Franceschini, a Swiss linguist, was rector from 2004 to 2008, consolidating the university's multilingual academic profile.瑞士籍语言学家丽塔·弗兰切斯基尼於 2004 至 2008 年任校长，巩固了该校多语的学术特色。

• Walter Lorenz, a German sociologist, served as rector from 2008 to 2016, a period of expansion across the faculties.德国籍社会学家瓦尔特·洛伦茨於 2008 至 2016 年任校长，其间各学院均有扩展。

• Paolo Lugli, an Italian engineer, was rector from 2017 until 2024, presiding over the opening of the new campus buildings.意大利籍工程师保罗·卢利自 2017 年至 2024 年任校长，主持了新校园建筑的启用。

• Alex Weissensteiner, a professor of quantitative finance, has been rector since 2024, having studied at Innsbruck University and taught at the universities of Innsbruck and Liechtenstein.量化金融学教授亚历克斯·魏森施泰纳自 2024 年起任校长，曾在因斯布鲁克大学深造，并在因斯布鲁克与列支敦士登的大学任教。

• Matthias Bischoff and Roberto Azzola, architects from Zurich, designed the university's buildings in Bolzano.来自苏黎世的建筑师马蒂亚斯·比朔夫与罗伯托·阿佐拉设计了该校在博尔扎诺的建筑。

• Regina Kohlmeyer and Jens Oberst, architects from Stuttgart, designed the university's premises in Brixen.来自斯图加特的建筑师雷吉娜·科尔迈尔与延斯·奥伯斯特设计了该校在布里克森的校舍。

• Johann Van der Sandt, conductor of the UnibzVoices choir, teaches music and communication at the Brixen College of Education.合唱团「UnibzVoices」指挥约翰·范德桑特在布里克森教育学院教授音乐与传播。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded in the university's institutional material, and its honours rest instead on rankings and research output.该校机构材料中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其荣誉更多依托排名与科研产出。

• The university's rectors have been drawn from Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, reflecting the cross-border character of a university founded to serve a trilingual province.其历任校长来自卢森堡、瑞士、德国与意大利，体现出这所为服务三语省份而设的大学的跨国性格。

• Because its leaders, architects and students come from across the Alpine region, the university embodies the cultural traffic between the German-speaking and Italian-speaking worlds.因其领导者、建筑师与学生来自整个阿尔卑斯地区，该校体现了德语世界与意大利语世界之间的文化往来。