The application deadline for fourteen “Seasonal Schools” offered by the Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies in Pisa is Monday, 21 September 2020. The Seasonal School interdisciplinary programs offer talented Italian and international students the unique opportunity to access cutting edge research in areas such as material science and engineering, information and industrial engineering, physics, and optics

The new rankings 2021 released by Times Higher Education (THE) measures the performance of 1527 universities worldwide (1396 were included in the THE rankings 2020)​. Scuola Sant’Anna and Scuola Normale Superiore remain firmly in the world’s top 200 universities rankings 2021, in the top 15 % globally, and, earning second and third place respectively, strengthen the national university’s positioning. Rectors Nuti and Ambrosio’s comments highlight the role of higher education for economic growth and development

Emanuela Navarretta is a Professor of Law at Pisa University. She graduated from Sant’Anna School in 1988 and later received her PhD in 1992. “On behalf of all of our members and the wider Sant’Anna community, I offer my congratulations to Navarretta, as well as our very best wishes for this appointment. I hope she will visit soon her alma mater along with her supervisor and mentor Professor Emeritus Francesco Donato Busnelli who served as our first director and rector from 1984 to 1993”, added Sabina Nuti