Iranian organization and Italian university sign MOU

TEHRAN,July 20(MNA) -- The University of Cagliari in Italy and Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) signed a memorandum of understanding last week. The MOU was inked by Iranian cultural attaché Qorbanali Purmarjan and the head of the Department of Social Sciences and Institutions, Gianfranco Bottazzi, during a meeting at the cultural attaché’s office in Rome, ICRO announced in a press release on Thursday. Both sides will hold mutual educational courses and also exchange students in various fields based on the agreement. The Italian university took steps to improve the courses for Islamic studies and the Persian language, and the ICRO agreed to boost its courses for the Italian language. The University of Cagliari was founded in 1620 and contains 11 faculties. It is a public state university and has about 31,100 enrolled students, over 1000 teaching staff and more than 1000 professionals at the technical-administrative staff.