UPO pursues excellence and innovation of research and teaching, placing students at the heart of all initiatives, and stimulating the spread of ideas, knowledge and interdisciplinarity and attends the goals of sustainable development and ecological transition.

The student remains the ‘sun’, the ‘monaster’, of the University, to whom all attention is dedicated in the pursuit of growth on personal, social and professional levels. This means not only equipping the University with the best possible services but also guaranteeing students an entrepreneurial, modern, open, inclusive and interdisciplinary environment which is deeply innovative in its teaching and research as well as able to respond to vital social issues and create increased job opportunities with work-oriented and professionalising courses.

This may happen through a strong contagion of ideas, profitable partnerships between departments and disciplines on strategic research fields, which can become areas of excellence. This will allow the revealing of currently concealed excellence, highlighting modernity, surprises and out-of-the-box thinking while stimulating partnerships that can successfully compete in European Calls, developing a hothouse of young researchers.

The ‘home’ of the University has no borders – it is the People’s Europe, a world in continuous evolution which must be addressed without any complex of provincialism. This is why the University has started an admirable journey of internationalisation in all aspects: mobility, language courses, doctorates, research projects that attract researchers and teachers from abroad, and agreements with a growing number of foreign universities.

Sustainability is fostered from any perspective: from the teaching offer, to the lines of research and its projects, which cover all the SDGs of the UN Agenda 2030, to the daily behaviour of individuals.

This vision is pursued in five large-scale strategic lines, each of which is organised into a series of strategic goals.