IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

MT (Institutions Markets Technologies) Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies is an open, competitive graduate school designed to best integrate research, education and innovation.

Founded in the city of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, IMT was founded as independent institution in November 2005 by way of a partnership between four leading Italian universities (Politecnico di Milano, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Università di Pisa, Università LUISS Guido Carli, Roma) and the Fondazione Lucchese per l’Alta Formazione e la Ricerca (FLAFR), a private foundation in Lucca which aims to promote social and economic growth in Italy via higher education.

IMT mission is to produce scientific and technological knowledge in areas marked by a lack of technological applications and skilled human capital.

Ph.D. programs and research labs at IMT focus on processes of institutional and technological change, with particular reference to economics, political and social sciences, computer sciences and engineering.

IMT’s teaching and working language is English.

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