Facoltà di Psicologia

What Facoltà di Psicologia does

The Dipartimento di Psicologia (Faculty of Psychology) is a department within the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, a public Italian university headquartered at Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milan. Founded as an independent department in 2017, it offers a comprehensive academic portfolio spanning three-year Bachelor's degrees (Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche; Scienze Psicosociali della Comunicazione), two-year Master's degrees (Applied Experimental Psychological Sciences — taught in English; Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology; Social Process Psychology; Developmental Psychology), doctoral research programs, specialization schools, and professional Master's including the Master in Sessuologia Clinica. The department also delivers third-mission community services such as the Centro di Counselling Psicologico, the Centro di Consulenza Psicologica, the Sportello Parent Time for new parents, and free sexology consultations.

Research output spans cognitive, clinical, social, developmental, and neuroscience psychology, supported by specialized centres and laboratories (including MiBTec, BiCApp, and others) and by collaborations with Politecnico di Milano, NTR Biosensors, Save the Children, Fondazione Italiana Accenture, and Fondazione Un futuro per l'Asperger Onlus. Faculty include ERC grant recipients (Marco Marelli, Brave New World project, €1.4M; €10M language-and-thought project with €3M directed to the department), Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (Marco Perugini), and senior appointments including Maria Chiara Carrozza, President of Italy's National Research Council (CNR).

The underlying technology stack is a Drupal-based institutional content management system (psicologia.unimib.it) integrated with the university's e-learning platforms, online course management, student secretariat, and BiUniCrowd crowdfunding infrastructure. Revenue is generated through public-sector funding: Italian government subsidies via the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), national and EU research grants (ERC, PRIN), and student tuition set at the national and university level. Distribution is exclusively through the university's on-campus education infrastructure in Milan and online learning portals — no commercial sales channels exist. The department holds Department of Excellence (Dipartimento di Eccellenza) status awarded by MUR, GDPR and AgID accessibility compliance certifications, and QS Rankings by Subject recognition in Psychology.

Name

Facoltà di Psicologia

Legal name

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Website

https://psicologia.unimib.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Dipartimento di Psicologia is the psychology department of the public Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Milan, offering Bachelor's, Master's, doctoral, and specialization programs in psychology, conducting ERC-funded research, and providing community psychological counselling and applied research services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education in Psychology

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Mental Health Counseling & Psychotherapy Services (EDALAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Behavioral Health & Counseling (Social Work, Psychology, Substance Use CE) (EDAAALAD)

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public University Funding and Tuition: As a department of a public Italian university (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), the department is funded through a combination of government subsidies, national research grants (e.g., ERC, PRIN), and student tuition fees. Revenue supports educational delivery, research activities, and third-mission services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Dipartimento di Psicologia at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca delivers psychology higher education from bachelor's to doctoral level (Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche, Scienze Psicosociali della Comunicazione, Applied Experimental Psychological Sciences, clinical and social psychology master's, PhD, and specialization schools), conducts funded research across cognitive, clinical, social, and developmental psychology, and provides community-facing psychological counselling, sexology consultations, and parenting support services.

Product overview

The Dipartimento di Psicologia at University of Milano-Bicocca operates as a unified academic department offering a comprehensive portfolio of psychology education and research services. The core offerings include three-year Bachelor's degrees (Corsi di Laurea Triennale) in psychology and communication sciences, two-year Master's degrees (Corsi di Laurea Magistrale) including the English-language Applied Experimental Psychological Sciences, professional Master's programs, doctoral research programs, and specialization schools. Supporting these academic offerings are psychological counselling services for students, research centers, international mobility programs, and practical training opportunities. The department functions as both an educational institution delivering degree programs and a research organization conducting psychological studies across multiple domains.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corsi di Laurea Triennale (Bachelor's Degrees)

Quantifiable outcome

• 4 out of 5 graduates find employment within one year; 91% employment rate for PhD graduates
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability5 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Camping Village Le Esperidi (Marina di Bibbona)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 June 2025The department partnered with Camping Village Le Esperidi in Marina di Bibbona, Tuscany, for the 'JustSeparate – Summer 2025' project, which brings psychological research out of the laboratory and into real-world settings for experiential activities on sustainability and climate change.
• BiUniCrowd (Università di Milano-Bicocca Crowdfunding Initiative)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 14 May 2025BiUniCrowd is the university's crowdfunding platform that allows research projects from the university community to obtain external support and visibility. The department has used BiUniCrowd to fund multiple projects including MOOVY and MindLeague, enabling the public to financially support innovative research initiatives.
• Save the Children - Volontari per l'EducazioneminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 January 2025The University of Milano-Bicocca participates in Save the Children's 'Volontari per l'Educazione' project, which aims to combat school dropout and learning loss among children and adolescents aged 9-18. The department supports the initiative by engaging student volunteers as online tutors.
• Master in Sessuologia Clinica (Internal University Program)minorOthers · 18 July 2024The Master in Sessuologia Clinica, organized within the department, offers free sexology consultations to the community in collaboration with the Centro di Consultazione Psicologica. The service is conducted by faculty, students, and graduates of the master program.
• Fondazione Un futuro per l'Asperger OnlusminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2023The department collaborated with Fondazione Un futuro per l'Asperger Onlus on the 'Indipendente…a modo mio' project, which facilitated eleven young people with Asperger syndrome to participate in life aboard Nave Italia, promoting social inclusion and autonomy.
• NTR BiosensorsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 April 2023NTR Biosensors, an innovative startup founded in 2020, became a co-financing partner of the MOOVY project — an interactive board game for speech therapy rehabilitation developed by researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca and Politecnico di Milano. NTR Biosensors provides wearable hardware and software solutions to support rehabilitation activities.
• Politecnico di MilanocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 April 2023The MOOVY project is a collaborative initiative between researchers at the Dipartimento di Psicologia of Università di Milano-Bicocca and the Politecnico di Milano. The project combines psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience expertise with engineering and interactive technology design.
• Fondazione Italiana AccentureminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 15 March 2023Fondazione Italiana Accenture promotes the 'Youth in Action for Sustainable Development Goals' program, now in its seventh edition, which calls on young people under 30 to tackle fifteen social, environmental, and economic sustainability challenges aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda. The department participates by promoting the opportunity to its students.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione: Padova's psychology department is among Italy's most research-intensive, with strong output in developmental, social, and cognitive psychology — overlapping directly with Bicocca's research areas and competing for the same PRIN/ERC funding pools.
• Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Psicologia: The University of Bologna's Psychology Department is one of Italy's oldest and largest psychology programs, offering comparable bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in psychological sciences. Direct competitor for Italian students, faculty, and national research grants.
• Università degli Studi di Firenze - Scuola di Psicologia: Firenze's psychology school is another comparable Italian public-university program, offering similar BA/MA/PhD tracks and competing in the same national research and student-recruitment market.
• Sapienza Università di Roma - Dipartimento di Psicologia: Sapienza's psychology faculty is a major Italian public-university competitor offering similar BA/MA/PhD programs in clinical, developmental, and social psychology, and competing for the same national and EU research funding.
• Università degli Studi di Torino - Dipartimento di Psicologia: Turin's psychology department is a comparable Italian public-university program with overlapping research strengths in clinical and social psychology, competing for ERC/PRIN funding and Italian psychology students.
• Università degli Studi di Trento - Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive: Trento's Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences combines psychology and cognitive science in a similar interdisciplinary model to Bicocca, competing for Italian students and European research funding in cognitive and experimental psychology.
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Facoltà di Psicologia: Cattolica's psychology faculty in Milan is a private-university competitor operating in the same Lombardy geography, with comparable program offerings and counselling-service extension to the community. Differs in being private (with tuition-driven funding) versus public.

Emerging players

• Politecnico di Milano: A core research partner on the MOOVY speech-therapy project, Politecnico brings engineering and design expertise to joint psychology applications. While not a direct competitor, it represents the kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration that increasingly defines the field.
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Closely comparable to Bicocca's language-and-thought research line (Prof. Marelli's "Brave New World" ERC project) — both investigate how language shapes cognition. Functions as an adjacent international research peer rather than a teaching competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Utrecht University - Department of Psychology: Utrecht's psychology department is a leading European research and teaching institution with strong ERC-funded programs in cognitive and social psychology — a broader benchmark for international research competitiveness rather than a direct student-recruitment competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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