University of Basilicata

UniBas – the University of Basilicata – was born in the aftermath of the severe earthquake which struck both the Basilicata and Campania regions on 23 November 1980 with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale (X degree of the Mercalli scale), and caused 2,914 casualties.

‘This is why we celebrate our annual dies academicus every year on 23 November, because this University is, to the people of Basilicata, a sign of rebirth and resurrection, of glorious return to life, of conscious hope for a brighter future’.

(Rector Cosimo Damiano Fonseca during his opening address on the occasion of Pope John Paul II’s 1991 visit to the University of Basilicata)

There are six Academic Divisions (four Departments and two Schools) within the University of Basilicata, in charge of developing, organising and offering academic, research and training programmes and activities.

They were established in 2012, replacing the pre-existing twelve Departments and eight Faculties, in compliance with Italian law no. 240/2010 concerning ‘university governance and organisation, academic staff and recruitment’, and regulating how public universities must amend their statutes on the subject of governance and internal organisation, in the context of a comprehensive public-sector reorganisation.

The new University Statute was issued by the Rector on April 12, 2018 (Decree no. 88).