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University of Udine

The University of Udine (Università degli Studi di Udine) was founded in 1978 following a popular petition signed by more than 125,000 people after the Friuli earthquake of 1976, which asked for a university as an instrument of the region's reconstruction and… The University of Udine (Università degli Studi di Udine) was founded in 1978 following a popular petition signed by more than 125,000 people after the Friuli earthquake of 1976, which asked for a university as an instrument of the region's reconstruction and of Friulian cultural identity. It is the only Italian university established by direct public initiative in this way. Udine has around 15,000 students and eight departments, covering agricultural, food, environmental and animal sciences, medicine, mathematics, computer science and physics, engineering and architecture, economics and statistics, law, languages and literature, and humanities and cultural heritage. Its research is particularly strong in oenology and food science, plant pathology and agricultural biotechnology, artificial intelligence and formal methods in computer science, and in the study of the Friulian language and the region's multilingual heritage.