Our milestone journey
1921 |
Father Agostino Gemelli founded Università Cattolica in Milan together with Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli and Ernesto Lombardo. |
1924 |
Father Agostino Gemelli takes the first steps toward the creation of the very first international network of Catholic universities |
1952 |
Piacenza campus inauguration |
1961 |
Inauguration of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Rome |
1964 |
Opening of the Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital in Rome |
1965 |
Year of founding of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) |
1965 |
Brescia campus opening |
1977 |
1st international exchange mobility agreement signed with Université Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium) |
1980 |
Exchange agreement signed with KU Leuven (Belgium) |
1981 |
Exchange agreement signed with Lublin University (Poland) |
1984 |
First lecture in the newly opened Cremona campus |
1988-89 |
Participation into the Erasmus Programme |
1994 |
Katholische Universität Eichstätt - Ingolstadt (Germany) and Università Cattolica sign an international mobility agreement |
2000 |
Pazmany Peter Catholic University di Budapest |
2002-03 |
Establishment of the first Double Degree Programme in International Management of the Faculty of Economics and Law at the Piacenza campus |
2003 |
Helmuto Kohl (former Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998) was awarded a Laurea Honoris Causa |
2004 |
Università Cattolica enters the ISEP network |
2006 |
Foundation of the Center for International Solidarity at Università Cattolica (CESI) |
2007 |
Laurea Honoris Causa was awarded to Josè Maria Aznar (former prime minister of Spain) and Romano Prodi (former President of the European Commission) |
2008 |
Launch of the International Currirulum academic offering for international students Tony Adams starts his collaboration with Università Cattolica Università Cattolica enters |
2009 |
Inauguration of the Confucius Institute at Università Cattolica |
2011 |
Opening of the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI) |
2013 |
First cohort of the English-taught Medicine & Surgery programme |
2018 |
SACRU Network's launch |
2019 |
Laurea Honoris Causa awarded to Mario Draghi, former ECB President and current Italian Prime Minister |