IULM’s history – Knowledge and know-how to master the present
“In educational processes the important thing is to know, to know how to be, and how and what to do”.
This is the essence of the educational mission outlined by Unesco. At IULM, University of Languages and Communication, knowing and knowing how are the tools, while the real goal is to educate men and women to know themselves and their own worth.
The real and ideal goal is to know how to be.
Since 1968, when the University Institute for Modern Languages (IULM) was founded by Senior Professor Carlo Bo and Professor Silvio Baridon, the inspiring idea of the project has been to meet the labour market’s future needs by analysing the present and studying ongoing trends.
Initially, this meant focusing on the study of languages – the sine qua non for becoming a part of an increasingly European framework. Things have changed over the years and it has become crucial to learn how to use specific communication tools. To meet this need, the university’s training opportunities and its facilities have been renewed and upgraded. It was a courageous development, in line with the principles that led IULM to change its identity and update all its syllabuses, closing the courses that had made the institute’s history, introducing new syllabuses and modifying the university’s charter and name.
Introduced in 1998, the denomination IULM University of Languages and Communication bears out the institution’s two-fold vocation of teaching languages as well as communication. This is the core principle of the institute’s range of training opportunities.
Our Campus
IULM University - Milano, Via Carlo Bo, 1 - 20143 Tel.: 02 891411 Fax: 02 891414000
The cutting edge of IULM University is its very modern study centre and its innovative facilities: a university campus where training, research, services and interpersonal relationships blend in complete harmony.
Built in the style of American campuses, the main building houses a reception desk, students’ admin. offices, the Dean’s Office and the Heads of Department Offices, the Library and classrooms. New buildings have recently been added to house a canteen catering for approximately 400 people, a building destined to the Research Institutes, an auditorium and a residence for undergraduates, visiting professors and researchers.
Interesting and challenging new expansion projects have been undertaken to create new spaces for future activities.
The traditional limits of university education are simply not acceptable at IULM. In addition to extending its presence in the business world, the institute is now also enlarging its centre in Milan pushing out the University’s boundaries in order to encourage greater and greater integration.
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