The highly regarded THE Young University Rankings 2020, one of the most reputable source of performance indicators in higher education, has acknowledged June 24, 2020, the key educational played by the Sant’Anna School that has moved up three places to reach its highest ever position. Sant’Anna School is now the world’s 4th best young university, ranking among the top institutions in Italy and in Europe  

With the core objective of presenting new approaches in higher education to photonics, circular economy and data science in healthcare, the virtual and in person Seasonal Schools offered at Sant’Anna School are aimed at giving Italian and international university and PhD students achieving the equivalent Italian scale average score of 27/30, a more intensive learning experience. Scholarships funded by the Foundation “Il Talento all’Opera” covering 50% of the tuition fee amount will be awarded  to 4 students  achieving highest grades in their course   

To develop meaningful multi- and interdisciplinary learning for 180,000 students, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) as the Coordinator, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), Friderich-Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg (Germany), Istanbul Technical University (Turkey), Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (France), Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania), and the Université PSL (France) will join the EELISA (European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance) network