The University of Salento ihis is a young dynamic university, keen to expand and to prove itself at a national and international level in the heel of Italy.
Since 1955 the University of Salento has been aiming to promote knowledge, skill and merit and has offered a large range of educational opportunities.

From Law to Natural Sciences, Economics to Engineering, Humanities to Media Studies, the university provides academic pathways to a range of professions as well as post-graduate and specialist courses tailor made to meet the needs of the workplace.
It also has a Phd. School and Post-graduate schools for Cultural Heritage and for the Legal Professions. The prestigious ISUFI Grandes écoles school offers high-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses for scholarship students to promote excellence.
The University of Salento has grown rapidly in recent years, consolidating and reinforcing its role as the keystone of the local cultural and social system.

Eight Departments provide services and information for students, as well as thirty-three Research Centres throughout the Salento regione: in particular, the "Department of History, Society and Human Studies" is the lead-partner of ALL ROUTES LEAD TO ROME project and has been particularly involved in cooperation project relating training, local development and capacity building in recent years.