The University of Insubria present at the mission of the Lombardy Region in the United States: promoted collaboration and excellence

The institutional mission of the Lombardy Region in the United States was held from 19 to 26 May, with the aim of promoting businesses and universities in Lombardy, enhancing the attractiveness of a territory rich in productive and cultural excellence. 

The mission was led by President Attilio Fontana, accompanied by the Councillor for Welfare Guido Bertolaso, the Undersecretary to the Presidency with responsibility for International Relations Raffaele Cattaneo and the President of Assolombarda Alessandro Spada.

The Italian academic world is also the protagonist of this mission, in order to intensify relations with American universities and to promote its research and educational offer. 

Representing the University of Insubria was the delegate of the rector of Internationalization, Professor Giorgio Maria Zamperetti, who in Washington met Paolo Messa, vice president of the National Italian America Foundation, Niaf, the expression of 20 million Italian American citizens living in the United States with the aim of keeping alive the rich cultural heritage of this important community. To this end, the Niaf Foundation actively collaborates with the United States Congress and the White House on all major issues affecting Italian Americans. 

From the interview emerged the idea of jointly promoting scholarships for excellent students of Italian origin who, continuing their studies in Insubria, are immersed in their roots and in the Italian language and, if they return to the United States, can be a witness to the excellence of the University and the Lombardy area. 

Professor Zamperetti met at the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago also the delegation of the Governor State University, led by its Dean Cheryl Green. 

During these moments of work, the possible developments of the collaboration started downstream of the Memorandum of Understanding, signed between the two universities last year, which has already produced important projects in the field of Restorative Justice promoted by the Center for Studies on Restorative Justice and Mediation, to which include the teachers of criminal law Grazia Mannozzi, Chiara Perini and Gilda Ripamonti.

In the last stage of the mission, in Indianapolis, the rector’s delegate illustrated the excellence of the University of Insubria in front of the qualified audience of the Global Economic Summit 2024, an event reserved for the leaders of US and international economic and cultural institutions. 

In his speech, Professor Zamperetti stressed that for students destined to become the future US ruling class, spending a period of training abroad must now be considered a necessity, to acquire soft skills and get a more complete and open vision of a changing world.
This is why the University of Insubria is an excellent option for American students, thanks to its English language master’s degrees ranging from biotechnology to computer science, from business management to sustainable tourism to mathematics and physics. A high-quality educational offer that provides further opportunities for internationalization through dual-degree courses with prestigious European universities. To this is added the possibility of studying and doing research in a beautiful and stimulating natural and urban environment, with high quality of life, with strong connections with the business world and with infinitely lower costs than those of American universities.

«I have found a lot of interest for the Lombard territory and for our university from the American interlocutors" - commented to the return professor Zamperetti -. These system missions offer the opportunity to make known the "Lombardy model" in its various forms, and help disseminate in important contexts the image of Insubria with its many excellencies».