Cà Foscari University of Venice

Founded on August 6, 1868 as the “Scuola Superiore di Commercio” (Advanced School for Commerce), Ca' Foscari was the first Italian institution to deal with advanced education in Business and Economics. The original main office is still found in the grand gothic palace “volta de canal” (on the bend of the Grand Canal), in the heart of Venice.

The University provides higher education in many fields and sectors and is organized into the following academic departments:

• Department of Economics
• Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
• Department of Management
• Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
• Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems
• Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
• Department of Asian and North African Studies
• Department of Humanities

In addition, there are a number of research centres and specialized academic and not academic schools.