International Cooperation of Sapienza University

Abstract

University education represents the last and the highest level of education in a student’s career. One of its distinctive elements, in comparison to other levels of formation is that on this very phase, for the first time during the study period, one tries to make the theoretical knowledge go outside the university and make the student take his first steps in the real world. This appears to be of very high importance especially nowadays when there are no limits for communication and travelling, which hampered this process in the past. As for students, university education incites professors and researchers to discuss and exchange with colleagues their theories, elaborated outside the national borders, amplifying the impact of their offer on the process of “culture” formation and transforming it into a highly requested competence just when young people enter the labor market. Thus facing external realities has more value when perceived through foreign institutions, information and experience, both intellectually and physically different from one’s academic origin.