The headquarter of the M.Sc. is in Pisa, a city of over 200,000 residents in its metropolitan area, located in Tuscany, central Italy, close to other historical cities like Lucca, Florence, Siena as well as country-side, beaches and mountains. Pisa is not only a welcoming and liveable city, frequented by tourists for its natural beauty and its monuments but also an ideal city for students. The Pisa University System, comprising the University of Pisa, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the Scuola Normale Superiore, is acknowledged to be one of the most prestigious centers of academic studies and research in Europe, and it promotes a unique model of multidisciplinary research and education.

Three different Institutions are involved in the M.Sc. in Bionics Engineering: (1) the University of Pisa (UNIPI), which is responsible for students’ enrolment and administrative procedures. In particular, UNIPI is involved with the Department of Information Engineering; (2) the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (SSSA), which is responsible for the students’ selection procedure and that co-delivers the degree title, together with the University of Pisa. In particular, SSSA is involved with The BioRobotics Institute; and (3) the IMT School for Advanced Studies (IMT), which participates in delivering the courses.

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION ENGINEERING – UNIPI 

The teaching staff of the Department of Information Engineering consists of 78 professors and researchers. Research activities are relevant to the following areas: Biomedical Engineering, Electromagnetics, Electronics, Computer Engineering and Communications. 34 staff members belong to the Computer Engineering Section, which is housed in the main building of the School of Engineering in Largo Lucio Lazzarino, while the remaining 44 staff members carry out their activities in the offices and laboratories of via Caruso. The main ongoing research activities concern electronics, applied electromagnetism, telecommunications, automation and robotics, computer science & engineering and biomedical engineering.

Detailed information can be found at: https://www.dii.unipi.it/en/

THE BIOROBOTICS INSTITUTE

The BioRobotics Institute intends to pursue new frontiers in engineering, by blending science and technology. The Institute has built and consolidated a vast wealth of knowledge and expertise in the fields of wearable technologies, artificial organs and prostheses, medical robotics and regenerative medicine, collaborative robotics, bioinspired robotics and neuroscience robotics. It also addresses the ethical, legal, social and economic implications related to these research lines.
The headquarter of the BioRobotics Institute is at the Polo Sant’Anna Valdera established by SSSA as a research park in the industrial city of Pontedera, with a surface of 6,300 mq. The BioRobotics Institute has other 11 laboratories and research centers in Tuscany dedicated to research activities on service robotics and ambient assisted living, rehabilitation bioengineering, movement assistance, translational neurorehabilitation, analysis and treatment of neuromotor disorders, neurodevelopmental bioengineering, marine robotics and industrial biorobotics. At the Polo Sant’Anna Valdera, the BioRobotics Institute also has a joint laboratory with one of the centers of the Italian Institute of Technology, which is the Centre for Micro-BioRobotics IIT@.SSSA.

Thanks to the many collaborative projects and initiatives, the BioRobotics Institute has a dense network of collaborations in Italy, Europe and worldwide with the most important research institutes, universities and industrial representatives. Each year, The BioRobotics Institute welcomes a large number of international visiting researchers, faculty and lecturers and organizes international events and meetings.
At present, the BioRobotics Institute includes over 250 people (24 faculty members, 78 Post docs, more than 90 PhD students, more than 20 technical and administrative assistants and several research fellows, master students and visiting researchers). It is involved, as the coordinator or as a partner, in more than 65 research projects and contributed to create 28 spin-off companies.

Detailed information can be found at: www.santannapisa.it/en/institute/biorobotics/biorobotics-institute.

IMT

IMT is a public research institution and a selective graduate school located in Lucca. The acronym IMT stands for “Institutions, Markets, Technologies.” Its main campus is located in the San Francesco Complex within the historic city walls of Lucca. The IMT School promotes the full integration of research and education.
Since its institution by ministerial decree of November 18^th 2005, the School has distinguished itself thanks to the quality and innovativeness of its research and doctoral program and its interdisciplinary nature, characterized by the complementarity and discourse between methodologies drawn from economics, engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, archeology, art history and the analysis and management of cultural heritage.

IMT also carries out research activities, which are characterized by the complementarity between methodologies drawn from economics, engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, archeology, cognitive and social neuroscience, art history and the analysis and management of cultural heritage.
Detailed information can be found at: www.imtlucca.it/en