Bachelor's Degree Programme in
Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage

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Annual deadlines for request to graduate

  • 1-10 April for the Summer session;
  • 1-10 September for the Autumn session;
  • 1-10 December for the extraordinary session;
  • 10-15 January for extraordinary session paying a surcharge of 100 euros.

Thesis and final degree exam: deadlines, admission and procedures  

Degree Programme Regulations

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National directories of professionals and Cultural Heritage Professionals

On 11 June 2014, the 7th Senate Standing Committee approved Draft Law 362 on the recognition of cultural heritage professionals (S. 1249 “Dispositions containing amendments to the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape”), already approved by the Chamber of Deputies [ITA], which also recognises, among others, the profession of experts in diagnostics and science and technology applied to cultural heritage.

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This is very important news for Ca' Foscari students in Conservation Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage, in Chemical Sciences for Conservation and Restoration and in Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage, whose professions are finally being regulated and whose skills acquired during their training courses - designed according to criteria whose validity and effectiveness are recognised nationally and internationally - are now officially acknowledged.

In particular, the amendments to the law stipulate that 'interventions for the protection, monitoring, inspection, conservation and enjoyment of the cultural heritage are entrusted, according to their respective competences, to archaeologists, archivists, librarians, demographic and ethnographic anthropologists, physical anthropologists, experts in diagnostics applied to the cultural heritage, and art historians in possession of adequate training and skills'.
National directories of archaeologists, archivists, librarians, demographic and ethnographic anthropologists, physical anthropologists, experts in diagnostics and science and technology applied to cultural heritage, and art historians, in possession of the identified requirements, will also be established.
“Thousands of cultural heritage professionals have been waiting to see their profession recognised. This law, which is the result of a wide-ranging and in-depth dialogue with all the categories concerned, fully meets their needs and offers the State one more instrument to fulfil its constitutional requirements. There is no doubt, in fact, that the cultural heritage cannot be fully preserved and enhanced if the skills of those who work on it every day are not valued”.

This is how the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, welcomed the final approval of the law recognising the cultural professions.

Ca' Foscari offers a wide range of degree courses devoted to cultural heritage. The attention given to Italy's cultural heritage, also encouraged by the university’s unique geographical location, and the recognition of the related professions, makes Ca' Foscari an important national point of reference in this field.

With Italian Decree No. 244 of 20 May 2019, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities regulated the procedures and requirements for the registration of professionals in the national directories of experts in diagnostics and science and technology applied to cultural heritage, established at the Ministry pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1, of Italian Law No. 110 of 22 July 2014 [ITA].

In order to register on the national directories of experts in diagnostics and science and technology applied to cultural heritage, applicants must provide, among other criteria, documented experience, continuous or otherwise, in the field of science applied to the conservation of cultural heritage (including any curricular traineeships). On 30 April 2020 the national coordination body for study courses activated for class L-43 (Diagnostics for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage) and class LM-11 (Conservation Science for the Cultural Heritage) recognised, based on the credits for practical and laboratory activities envisaged in the respective curricula:

  • 3 months of experience in the field of science applied to cultural heritage to students who graduate from the L-43 Bachelor's Degree Programme (Diagnostics for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage) for laboratory, internship and thesis activities carried out within the student's university
  • 9 months of experience in the field of science applied to cultural heritage to students who graduate from the LM-11 Master's Degree Programme (Conservation Science for the Cultural Heritage) for laboratory, internships and thesis activities carried out within the student's university.

Graduates in Conservation Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage (LM-11) and in Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage (L43) at Ca' Foscari may request recognition of this experience directly from the Teaching Committees of their respective study courses.

Please note that the directories are not professional registers and failure to register does not in any way preclude one from practising the profession.

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