The mayor Franz Caruso participated in the church of San Domenico, together with the rector of the University of Calabria Nicola Leone, the Archbishop of Cosenza-Bisignano, Msgr. Giovanni Checchinato, and other civil, military and religious authorities, to the inauguration ceremony of the academic year of the Unique Health Professions which since this year also includes the physiotherapy course, also completing the three -year nursing.
“Today, after more than 50 years – said the mayor Franz Caruso – the University of Calabria, our great heritage and excellent incubator of ideas, lands in Cosenza and does it in one of the most important and most beautiful places in the city, the monumental complex of San Domenico, one of the symbolic places of our cultural history. The municipal administration, to make it more functional to the needs of the students, has invested 5 million euros.” privileged, because they will bring new life in our historic center and in our city “.
After welcome to the freshmen, the new teaching classrooms made within the same monumental complex were inaugurated: in addition to the 120 -seater classroom already active, the pole is enriched with two new classrooms of 184 seats each, one 95 -seater classroom and another of 78, as well as spaces dedicated to workshops, catering and services. A modern and functional equipment that makes the Polo delle Polo of Unical Health Professions capable of hosting a student community in optimal conditions in continuous growth. Thanks to the arrival of the new 180 nursing freshmen, who complete the three -year period, and with the activation of the degree course in physiotherapy, for the new academic year, the unique members who study in San Domenico climb to 500. In two years, when the courses will be fully operational, they will become about 800 students who will attend the historic center of Cosenza daily, helping to animate it and, in part, live it.
“You have to be proud – said the mayor Franz Caruso in formulating the good wishes for a happy academic year to the freshmen – to be able to live this experience in the city of Bernardino Telesio. In this place he also completed his studies Tommaso Campanella and there is a lot of other story, which you will face full lung day after day. The synergistic relationship with the university – added Franz Caruso – will have to continue with the next rector, involving, as in this case, the other institutions of the territory.
So Franz Caruso told how it came to the realization of the project. “This choice – he explained – was born from the encounter with the magnificent rector, Nicola Leone, in our historic center, when in the Santa Lucia district we inaugurated Palazzo Spadafora, another of the most significant ancient buildings in our city, so that it became the headquarters of the Open Incubator Project of the Unical. And he told me about an experience in Perugia and I replied that he could probably be relived in Cosenza. coming here in the San Domenico complex.
Finally, the first citizen also spoke of the possibility of allocating Palazzo Ferrari university residences to avoid commuting and make the city live directly and fully the city and through them to revive the wonderful historic center of Cosenza. The first citizen has given a special thanks to the commitment made by the technicians, in particular to the manager of the Infrastructure and Public Works sector of the Municipality, ing. Salvatore Modesto, to the Rup, engineer Maria Colucci, and to the councilor delegated to the Cis, the urban agenda and the historic center, Francesco Alimena.
A further thanks the mayor also addressed him to the design companies Hypro and Node, to the engineer Luigi Zinno, tested of the intervention, the management of the works and to the engineer Pasquale Cundari. “With his availability and competence – he specified – he made it possible to create the works that today allow us to open this wonderful monumental complex of San Domenico to students. He works – added Franz Caruso – who are not over, but, as the magnificent rector also asked for, we ask you for a moment of tolerance compared to those that can also be the interference between your studies and the activities that will take place, so that the works are completed.