University of Naples Federico II (UNINA) is the world’s oldest state-supported institution of Higher Education and Research. UNINA has 40 PhD programmes, 2400 professors, 440 young researchers (RTD-A) 2200 employees, 73000 students, 840 PhD students. The Department of Political Science of UNINA has a strong interdisciplinary character with a key focus on data analysis. It houses the Statistics and Mathematics Research Group, involved in activities for improving the knowledge about financial inclusion through digital finance.

Research: In the last three-year, more than 30,000 research products were produced, also in collaboration with other public and private, Italian and international Research Institutions, and in synergy with the educational, production and service sectors.

Training: UNINA supports higher education with 37 PhD courses http://www.international.unina.it/phd-courses/ and one MSCA Doctoral network SHINE.

Industry cooperation: It is ranked 6th among Italian universities (Centre for World University Ranking) with a commitment to technology transfer to the industry with over 77 granted patents and participation in 47 consortia with the private sector and spin-off activities.