CUOA Foundation (Centro Universitario di Organizzazione Aziendale – University Centre of Business Administration) is one of the first Business Schools born in Italy in the 1950s, in an important period for managerial training in Italy.
President: Federico Visentin
General Manager: Giuseppe Caldiera
Scientific Director: Alberto Felice De ToniThe CUOA Foundation opened in 1957 as a post-graduate school for secondary education within the University of Padua and as a Business School supported by enterprises, category associations, lending institutions, public bodies and the Universities of Padua, Trento, Trieste, Udine, Venice, Verona and IUAV - University of Venice.
The Foundation, with its more than 50 years of activity, developed relationships with about 3,000 companies and both national and international organizations. Fondazione CUOA manages more than 500 lecturers, didactic and scientific representatives and cooperates with 53 foreign countries and 26 foreign Universities and Business Schools.
The Foundation is a founding member of ASFOR,
, the association of Italian Business Schools. It is numbered among the first Italian Business School and it is considered the most important in the north east of Italy.
.Fondazione CUOA is hosted in the Villa Valmarana Morosini in Altavilla Vicentina, in the outskirts of Vicenza.