The mission of a University is already contained in its very name: universĭtas.
Openness, plurality, freedom, and encounter, precisely: “universality”. 

It was 1968 when, the University, originally named “The Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature” was founded in the Upper Town of Bergamo. An autonomous body, neither private nor public: a project wanted by the city's institutions, animated by their mutual understanding and extraordinary far-sightedness. «An engine for the Upper Town», said the mayor of the time Pezzotta. And its approach was immediately evident: openness to international exchange.