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UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021 was published on March 3, 2021. Università Cattolica placed 14 subjects among the top 300 in the world or higher: Communication & Media Studies, Philosophy, Nursing, Modern Languages, Medicine, Psychology, and Law (101-150); Agriculture & Forestry, Accounting & Finance, and Economics & Econometrics (151-200); Linguistics, Sociology (201-250); Business & Management Studies, Education (251-300).
MARIO DRAGHI NEWLY APPOINTED ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER
Mario Draghi, who as the head of the European Central Bank did “whatever it takes” to preserve the eurozone, accepted the post of Italian Prime Minister in early February 2021. In October 2019 he was awarded an honorary degree in Economics by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. In his acceptance speech, he pointed out that knowledge, courage, and humility are the key factors, which make the choices and decisions of a good policymaker.
Università Cattolica Agostino Gemelli University Hospital is the best hospital in Italy and the top 50 worldwide based on the World’s Best Hospital 2021 Ranking by Newsweek. The reknowned magazine publishes the ranking each year in collaboration with Statista Inc.. The ranking analyses 2,000 hospitals across 25 countries and it takes into consideration the excellence for patient treatments, the number of well-known doctors, the quality of its nursing staff and the availability of innovative technologies.
On January 27, 2021, Università Cattolica together with IRIS (France), which serves as the coordinating organisation, and ISCA (Denmark), Edge Hill University (United Kingdom), the National University of Physical Education of Sports (Romania), SOAS University of London (United Kingdom), UC Louvain, (Belgium), and the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) launched a new Erasmus+ Sports Project for the Development of a Sports Diplomacy for the European Union (EU). As the nexus between sport and diplomacy has gained strategic significance with the EU, TES-D aims to develop a set of policy recommendations for the establishment of a common sports diplomacy at the EU-level by adopting a multidisciplinary approach and building upon existing foundations. It intends to create a network of relevant stakeholders while developing pilot actions in order to assess the feasibility and sustainability of an EU sports diplomacy policy, in addition to conducting empirical research on the very concept of sports diplomacy and existing sports diplomacies within all 27 members of the EU.