Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM)

Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM)
Established 2002
Type Public
Rector Aldo Schiavone
Location Florence, Italy
Website www.sumitalia.it

The Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) (in Italian: Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane) is an Italian public university dedicated to post-graduate formation and high level research in human and social sciences. It promotes Doctoral, Post-Doctoral and Master programmes in collaboration with other Italian and European universities.

It is constituted by five schools and institutes within the universities of Florence, Bologna, Rome - La Sapienza, Milan - Bicocca, Siena, Naples - Federico II, Naples - Eastern and Naples - Suor Orsola Benincasa.

In association with the Central European University (CEU), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, it has established the European Doctoral School for the Human and Social Sciences.

It has cooperation and co-tutorship agreements with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the New York University and the Georgetown University.

Schools

Palazzo Strozzi, seat of the institute in Florence
Palazzo Cavalcanti, seat of the institute in Naples

PhD Programmes

European PhD programmes

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