20 Engineering Preparatory Programs in Italy

The Summer School "Beyond 5G: Enabling Technologies, Opportunities and Research Challenges Ahead" is organized to offer 6 ECTS (48 hours of front lessons) in the broad field of 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks, targeting an audience of Bachelor (last year), Master and PhD students, early stage researchers and practitioners from Academia or Industry. The technologies, opportunities and research challenges of 5G networks will be presented and discussed during the school.

Contemporary design encompasses the present, pulling current trends; it is always evolving due in part to the availability of (new) materials and pieces. The aim of the Italian Contemporary Design and Trends Spring Semester is to enrich you with a cultural knowledge on the contemporary design as well as the contemporary art. This allows you to have an overview on the new trends in terms of art, furniture and interior design, as well as learn more about contemporary artists and designers and the different techniques, materials, and tools they use when realizing their artworks. The program will also offer you a practical study of the Italian design system from the management and the design methodology perspective. New trends in furniture, various types of houses, different lifestyles and people's needs and desires will be analyzed from a practical and emotional point of view. Throughout the semester you will be engaged in developing technical and critical skills in the classroom and inside the main trade fairs that highlight the Italian design experience.

Turin, a city with a unique charm, a world-class benchmark for a new culture of food and research into environmental sustainability, is the centre of excellence and innovation in the automotive field.

Welcome to your first step towards a world-class engineering education in the heart of Italy. Our International Foundation Program offers you the perfect pathway to thrive in Italy’s renowned engineering universities.

The Foundation Course in Engineering and Science is a multidisciplinary program that includes teachings in mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry, along with English language courses (B2 level) and Italian language courses (A1 and A2 levels).

The Winter School is dedicated to PhD students who perform their research activities in the field of fluid machinery and energy systems engineering, including turbomachinery, internal combustion engines, energy conversion systems, power plants, renewable energy systems and innovative energy systems.

The Seasonal School will introduce participants to the urgent topic of textile-based robotics, providing them with interdisciplinary tools to design robots based on textiles, how to leverage the unique properties of these materials to devise wearable and non-wearable robotic tools, and for the understanding of their role in human empowerment, combining engineering, biomechanical, clinical, and regulatory aspects.

The third edition of the Summer School “Microwaves and mm-waves for the Design of Advanced Wireless Links: Communication, Sensing and Power Transfer” aims to provide participants with a solid understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies of modern wireless systems operating in the microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands. It is co-coordinated by Prof. Paolo Nepa (Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa) and Prof. Pietro Bolli, (Technology Director at the INAF Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence).

The 2026 edition of the Summer School Enabling Technologies for Industrial Internet of Things (ET-I2oT 2026) is organized to provide 6 ECTS (about 52 hours of front lessons) in the fields of Electronics, RFID, Sensors, Networking, Web of Things, SW for IoT, Computer Engineering, targeting on one side an audience of Bachelor (last year), Master and PhD students, and on the other side early stage researchers and practitioners from Academia or Industry. Both HW and SW aspects of IoT will be presented and discussed during the school.

The Summer School will focus on methodologies and ICT technologies for an autonomous, sustainable, resilient, and human-centered industry. The Summer School will provide an analysis of both the state of the art and frontier research in the field of ICT technologies for Industry 5.0, such as Artificial Intelligence, Embodied Intelligence, Human-Centric Systems, Smart Material Devices, and Future Networks.

Prepare for a successful career in jewelry design with this creative and technical certificate course from LdM Institute. Florence has a long-standing reputation of producing high quality jewelry that receives international acclaim; making the LdM an idealartistic and cultural study setting for students looking to make their mark in the field.

The Seasonal School will introduce participants to the extremely relevant topic of designing production systems that are sustainable from an environmental point of view and resilient to climate change and other environmental pressures.

ANIMA (ANImatronics and Mechatronic Artificial organs) Seasonal School draws on the tradition of animatronics, while incorporating innovative knowledge in robotics and biorobotics and promoting automation in medical phantoms used for training healthcare professionals.

The main objective of the Seasonal School ROBOPHIL is to provide a compact and focused training on the philosophical, social, political, and technical aspects of the systemic transformations linked to robotics and artificial intelligence, analysed from a perspective that takes into account different philosophical profiles and the multiple dimensions of agency, both individual and collective.

Since 2014, the International Summer School “The City and the Water” has been a full-time design workshop that explores the complex relationships between the built environment and water, in its broadest sense as an environmental resource, including the sea, rivers, lakes and water resources.