Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Cattolica International

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

 

Article featured on Worldbound, edition n.7-2022.