Dear colleague,

Congratulations for the excellent results obtained by our University: we are once again a "virtuous University”. After closing the budgetary statement with a plus, the Ministry has also acknowledged our improvements in the three main indicators.

As you know, the three indicators are evaluated as followed:

• the ratio of personnel costs and the annual FFO (which must be below 80%)
• the ISEF, the economic and financial sustainability indicator (which must be equal to or greater than 1);
• the debt indicator, which must be below 10%.

Between 2013 and 2015, the University has improved all three parameters, but not only: in 2015, we aligned personnel costs to the minimum standard set by the Ministry and is now classified a “virtuous” university.

The improvement of the last parameter, obtained during the last year, will result in a greater share of national resources for the University of Sassari, making it possible to increase the number of contracts.

It is a major result and a the recognition of our work, and justifies the sacrifices that all we made: it is a turning point to set new and even more ambitious objectives to be pursued together.

I wish you great holidays,

The Rector – Massimo Carpinelli