The Penitentiary University Center of the University of Sassari (PUP) celebrates another 3 degrees

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SASSARI. The University of Sassari continues its commitment within the National University Conference of Penitentiary Centres, confirming the delegate of the Rector Gavino Mariotti, Emmanuele Farris, in the role of member of the Board of Directors also for the three-year period 2024-27. This was decided by the National Assembly of the National Conference of Penitentiary University Centers (CNUPP), meeting in Turin in recent days. This is not the only recent good news for the Penitentiary University Center of the University of Sassari: three new degrees of inmate students were celebrated in April.

The National Conference of University Penitentiary Poles

Over 40 Italian public universities currently belong to the CNUPP, operating in 107 penitentiary institutions where over 1,500 inmates enrolled in university courses study, as well as approximately 200 others who study at university under external criminal execution, REMS or juvenile justice circuits. . The CNUPP has elected its new president: he is Professor Giancarlo Monina of the University of Roma Tre, who succeeds Franco Prina (University of Turin). Francesca Vianello was also confirmed on the board of directors, while professors Vincenza Pellegrino from Parma and Teresa Consoli from Catania made their entry.

Uniss dynamic university

This renewed assignment to Professor Farris confirms the trust that many Italian universities have in the University of Sassari and is the recognition of constant work that has led the UNISS Penitentiary University Center to be one of the most dynamic and active Italian institutions. Also this year, after celebrating its tenth anniversary last March 26, the PUP Uniss has renewed the Memorandum of Understanding for the three-year period 2024-27, with the entry of the ERSU of Sassari as the fifth partner (in addition to the Regional Authority of 'Penitentiary Administration, the Interdistrict Office of External Criminal Execution and the Juvenile Justice Centre, already partners since 2020) and the stipulation of an agreement for 36 curricular internship positions available for all university students who want to undertake a training course in Penitentiary and Community Justice system.

Three degrees in April

To crown this commitment, three degrees arrived in the month of April: two master's degrees obtained in the Alghero Prison (one in Business Economics, Department of Economic and Business Sciences; the other in Livestock Production Sciences, Department of Agriculture) and the third three-year degree achieved in the Tempio Pausania Prison by a student enrolled in the Public and Private Administration and Business Law course (Department of Law).

“A great satisfaction not only for the students but also for the penitentiary and university staff who have been collaborating incessantly for a decade to make the prisons of northern Sardinia not only a place of expiation of sentences, but also a place of training for adults”, he said. commented the Magnificent Rector Gavino Mariotti.