Founded in 1303, Sapienza is the oldest university in Rome and the largest in Europe with 120,000 students around 3,500 professors, 2,100 employees, technicians and librarians and 1,350 administrative staff in university hospitals (2021-2022 academic year). Its mission is to contribute to the development of a knowledge society through research, excellence, quality education and international cooperation.

Scientific research activity at Sapienza covers an extremely broad spectrum of disciplines, reaching levels of excellence in many areas, including Classics and Ancient History , Physics and Astrophysics, Humanities and Cultural heritage. Nobel Prize winners and internationally renowned scientists have taught and/or studied at Sapienza.

Sapienza is committed to achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through its educational activities, research, third mission (service to society or outreach) and cross-cutting policies.

The Sapienza Università di Roma through the national contract between CRUI and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between August 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with Sapienza Università di Roma. Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submission. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an administrator in the library.
Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.