From the academic year 2019/2020, the Department of Law of the Vanvitelli University has activated a new study programme with the University of Castilla - La Mancha / SPAIN. Students will have the opportunity to obtain a double degree in Law. More precisely, the course:

·         has a five-year duration;

·         provides a training course designed together with the foreign university and a mobility period abroad (1 year and a half);

·         issues, at the end of the study period, two degrees in Law (double degree) of which one will be valid in Italy and the other in the country of the partner university.

This new course represents an unrepeatable occasion for students to enrich their curriculum and present themselves in the world of work with a completely peculiar and captivating training profile.

The Joint Degree in Fashion Design, designed by the Vanvitelli University and the Okan University - Art, Fashion and Fashion Design Department, allows students to attend courses of the third year at the Vanvitelli University and of the fourth year at Okan University, Department of Fashion Design and to obtain a double degree in "Design for Fashion" and "Fashion Design ".

The international programme allows students from both countries to:

Obtain both the title of "Doctor" in Italy and the "Bachelor level degree" in Turkey;

Study in a cosmopolitan and multicultural environment;

Present themselves on the international labour market, thus multiplying their job opportunities in an increasingly globalized world.

Correspondence between the educational systems of the two universities involved in this agreement

The curricula of the respective courses are integrated with the Bologna process, created to increase common cohesion in the European Higher Education Area, European university qualifications, and Italian and Turkish higher education diplomas. Students will not only acquire the qualifications associated with higher education diplomas, but will also have the opportunity to lay out international careers in the fashion design area.

Italian study class, "Design for Fashion" L-4 Industrial design

This Degree programme provides the basic theoretical preparation and an adequate mastery of general scientific methods and contents, as well as the acquisition of specific professional knowledge in the fashion design field. It requires 180 credits over three years. Graduates are assigned the title of doctor, which corresponds, in the whole area of the Bologna process and in the Anglo-Saxon countries, to the "Bachelor's level degree".

Turkish study class, “Fashion design”

This Degree programme provides the basic theoretical preparation and an adequate mastery of general scientific methods and contents, as well as the acquisition of specific professional knowledge. It requires 60 credits of general training in the first year and 180 credits over three additional years. Graduates are awarded the "Bachelor's level degree" (Bologna Process).

The Degree Programme in DATA ANALYTICS provides an international course for the acquisition of the joint title:

- Degree in Data Analytics issued by the Vanvitelli University

- Licence (LMD) Mention Informatique of the Computer Science Department of the Institut Galilée, issued by the Université Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris La Cité (France)

A Course of Study Committee composed by the Coordinators and the professors of the two courses supervises the international programme.

To access at the international course, students have to satisfy the following requirements:

- knowledge of the English language (at least a B1 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR))

 – to have competed exams for the first 120 ECTS.

A Committee appointed by the extended Study Board bases the selection on the students’ career and on an interview.

The agreement between the two universities establishes that 5 students of each institution can access the international course each year.

This programme requires that students attend the third year of course at foreign university. The courses are mainly held in English.

In order to apply to the international programme, students must be regularly enrolled in one of the degree courses at their home University.

As part of the two-year degree course in "Architecture - Interior Design and Autonomy" in English, the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design has signed two international agreements. The first, in Architecture, with the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the Okan University in Istanbul, was regularly activated in the A.Y. 2015/16 with the first student exchange in the two semesters of the 1st year; the second, in Architecture and Fine Arts, activated starting from the A.Y. 2017/18 with the School of Design of the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai.

The programme with the Okan University offers students the opportunity to obtain a joint degree in Architecture. The Okan University, one of Turkey's most dynamic and young universities, was founded by the Okan Culture, Education, and Sports Foundation in 1999 and began its academic life in 2003-2004. In rapid growth, in its 15th year it has reached a student body of 17,000 and includes 8 faculties. The Okan University aims to build a bridge between the academic and the business world, allowing students to work in companies as part of their university education starting from their first year. For this purpose, the Turkish University has signed cooperation protocols with important local representatives of the business world and actively participates in intensive European and international exchange programmes. Okan's headquarters is the modern campus in Akfirat with classrooms and equipped laboratories, a library, conference rooms, a fitness centre, a swimming pool, gyms, canteens and restaurants and dormitories for students.

There is also a sports centre, which includes a 400-person gym, a swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball, volleyball and football. The course has a duration of two years; provides a joint training programme and a period of mobility for a semester during the first year; at the end of the study period, students will obtain a Joint Title in Architecture. The degree thesis will have two supervisors, one from the Vanvitelli University and the other from OKAN.

The programme with the ECNU of Shanghai offers students the opportunity to achieve a Double Master's Degree in Architecture and Fine Arts. Established in Shanghai in 1951, the East China Normal University (ECNU) is one of the most prestigious universities in China and the first established in the country after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

The ECNU, with two campuses located in Minhang and in the Putuo district, with a total area of over 207 hectares, has long been reputed as a university-garden. ECNU gives great importance to the development of internationalization and enjoys an excellent reputation all over the world. The university has activated exchange and cooperation projects with more than 150 internationally renowned universities. There are about 5,000 foreign students studying at ECNU.

The School of Design was founded in September 2004. There are 4 departments: visual communication, product design, environmental art, and public art. The departments are then divided into 11 specialization groups, among which: visual communication, product design, landscape design, interior design, display design, animation design, video communication, digital art, brand design and management, public art and fashion design. The School is located in the central district of Shanghai, within a modern campus, with exclusive equipment and facilities, such as the design centre, which covers 3,000 square meters, including a professional design laboratory and fashion centre covering 2,700 square meters.

Fundamental value of this School is Humanity Design, supporting the integration between nature, science, art and humanity. In addition, the School of Design has initiated long-term cooperation with more than 20 art and design colleges in Europe and the United States, dozens of international workshops and summer programmes abroad. The annual employment rate of its graduates is over 97%.

The Course – with a duration of two years for the students of the Vanvitelli University (three years, for those of the ECNU) - provides a training programme designed together with the Chinese University with a period of mobility of the first semester of the second year (with the further possibility to follow online ECNU courses of the second semester). At the end of the study period, students will obtain a Joint Title in Architecture and Fine Arts. The degree thesis will have two supervisors, one from the Vanvitelli University and the other from ECNU.