COMMUNICATION TO STAKEHOLDERS ON THE 2008 SOCIAL REPORT

The present “Communication to Stakeholders on the 2008 Social Report” is a synthesis of the Social Report, conceived in order to enhance the University’s external communication and to disseminate its most relevant social activities. Data and information – in the Social Report divided into several reporting areas (intellectual capital; education; research and innovation; territory; internationalization; environment, culture and society; health; human capital) – have been summarized and aggregated according to the different stakeholders. Therefore, the synthesis articulates in the following sections: • Students, their families and schools; • Institutions and Local Authorities; • Firms; • the University’s Employees; • Ferrara’s People. The aim is the delivering to each stakeholder with a clear, immediately understandable and transparent cognitive frame of some of those activities characterizing their relations with the University. For each section, those stakeholders desiring more detailed information will find cross-references to the complete Social Report. Data and information are relative to the solar year 2008 (31 December) and are compared, when possible, with data referring to the previous years, in order to clearly report the evolution over time and in social terms of activities carried out. In accordance with time scheduling of the University’s core activities, data and information strictly related to training courses refer to the Academic Year 2007/08 and are compared to the data and information related to the previous Academic Years.