On February 21st ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) showed the figures coming from the survey about the quality of research (VQR), carried out considering the data between 2011 and 2014, and the tables representing the evaluation areas and the results of Terza Missione.

In December the results had already been positive for the University of Turin, and now we can see the same: 3rd place among all the other Universities, with positive results also in educating and recruiting highly qualified professors. In particular, UniTO is at the first place in Italy in Public engagement, it makes the impact of research in the region better and improves the scientific production.

The section dedicated to Terza Missione honours the politics of the University in the region for the development of the territory and the activities of research and teaching. It underlines the importance of the activities that allowed to evaluate the openness of the University of Turin to the socio-economic situation and it measures the many interactions the University has with business, schools and the society, in order to create more and more opportunities of social development.

VQR 2011-2014 compared around 96.000 research products, which are the result coming from professors and researchers in the 16 scientific areas, in order to evaluate 96 universities, 12 research agencies coordinated by the Ministry of Education, MIUR (University and Research) and 26 agencies which decided to take part in this evaluation.

So Gianmaria, Ajani, dean of the University of Turin: “The success of our University comes from the excellent job of our researchers in the universities and the selection of products. We are one of the few university in the North of Italy that still are improving their performance. The evaluation is extremely positive also for the awarding of the FFO (Ordinary Financial Fund), which is higher than in the last year by 8%. The first place of UniTO in Public Engagement honours many years of work of the whole university community, but above all it shows the openness and the recognizing of the key role the university can and must have for the region and the country today”.