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Italy has played an important role in European higher
education: it is one of the four countries that first
engaged to create the so-called "European Area of Higher
Education" , thus starting that type of higher education
reform which, known as "Bologna Process" is being
implemented all over Europe.
Today Italy ranks among the 8 most
industrialized countries in the world. Alongside some
big companies, both state-owned and private, Italy has
developed a sound network of small and medium-sized
undertakings, promoted a few scientific parks, and is
investigating basic and applied research in a great
variety of fields (biology, ICT, medicine, physics,
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Country name: Italian Republic
Area: 294,020 sq km (113,492 sq mi)
Population: 56,778,000
Captial city: Rome
People: Italian (includes small clusters of
German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and
Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Language: Italian (official), German (parts of
Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German
speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in
Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking
minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Religion: predominately Roman Catholic with
mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing
Muslim immigrant community
Major industries: tourism, machinery, iron and
steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor
vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics |
