Italy: Automotive

Cities: Turin, Bologna
Duration: 15 days
Area of Study: Engineering

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Program Includes

  • 13 Nights of Accommodation
    • 2-6 people per room for participants, each with their own bed and ensuite bathroom
    • Single for faculty/program leader with ensuite bathroom
    • Free wifi and daily continental breakfast
  • All Ground Transportation 
  • Welcome & Farewell Dinners 
  • Historical & Cultural Walking Tours
  • Full Time On Site Program Director Available 24/7 in case of Emergencies 
  • 24/7 On-Ground Emergency Support
  • SAA’s Mandatory Health Insurance* (see next page) 
  • SAA’s $5m Liability Insurance (COI available upon request)
  • Tips & Gratuities

Program Highlights

  • Stellantis Visit 
  • National Automobile Museum
  • Punch Company
  • Visit to Marelli Headquarters
  • Lingotto Factory, FIAT & Pista 500 
  • Maserati Factory Tour 
  • Ducati Factory Tour and Museum
  • Lamborghini Museum & Factory
  • Enzo Ferrari Museum & Panini Collection

Program Itinerary

day 1 / DEPARTURE

Depart Home for Turin, Italy

day 2 / TURIN

Arrive in Turin, Italy

Check-in at the Hotel & On-ground Briefing

Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do incase of an emergency. 

Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.

day 3 / TURIN

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Nexteer Visit - Nexteer is a global leading motion control technology company accelerating mobility to be safe, green and exciting, they solve motion control challenges across all megatrends, including electrification, software/connectivity , ADAS/automated driving and shared mobility, for more than 60 customers around the world.

day 4 / TURIN

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

National Automobile Museum -The Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile, founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries. The museum is situated in a building dating from 1960, and it has three floors.
Lunch Break

Visit Punch Company -  PUNCH Torino is an engineering centre focusing on propulsion and control systems, delivering turnkey solutions through their many years of experience

Structured Free Time & Cultural Immersion

day 5 / TURIN

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Visit to Marelli Headquarters - It distributes original-designed and original-fit components for major automakers, as well as parts of equivalent quality to the original. From electronics, to lighting, to shock absorbers, to technical know-how-we have always been technology leaders.
Lunch Break (included) at Marelli’s Canteen 

Venaria Plant Visit- Automotive Lighting- With a strong and established track record in innovation and manufacturing excellence, their mission is to transform the future of mobility through working with customers and partners to create a safer, greener and better-connected world.

Structured Free Time & Cultural Immersion

day 6 / TURIN

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Visit to Lingotto Factory, FIAT & Pista 500 The historical FIAT test track and access ramp on the roof of Lingotto opens to the public through an art project in dialogue with a new hanging garden created by FIAT.

Lunch Break

Visit to Pinacoteca Agnelli - Pinacoteca Agnelli new programme expands outside the spaces of the museum through an ambitious outdoor art project which transforms a former test track – an iconic Turinese site into an exhibition trail featuring a series of artistic and environmental installations that interact with the surrounding architecture and landscape.  

day 7 / TURIN

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free Day to explore Turin

day 8 / TURIN/BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Transfer to Bologna (approx 2.30 hrs)

Lunch Break

Bologna Walking Tour- Piazza maggiore, Fountain of neptune, the Two Towers,The University of Bologna ( the Oldest in the world)

day 9 / BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Visit to Archiginnasio - The most beautiful palace in Bologna. Formerly the seat of the University of Bologna, it served as a place of learning until 1838, when it made way for the library.

Lunch Break

Free Afternoon in Bologna 

day 10 / BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Maserati Factory Tour - Maserati Factory was founded in Bologna in 1914 and moved to its current Headquarters in modena in 1937.,

Lunch Break

Ducati Factory Tour and Museum - The Ducati museum is designed to narrate the history of the company along three different routes: the Ducati road motorcycles that marked the different eras, the Ducati racing bikes parade, the timeline of Ducati Moments, or milestones in the company's history.

day 11 / BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Lamborghini Museum & Factory - The lamborghini Museum has been updated to become Museum of technologies, where the iconic models and tour of production line tell the story of over 50 years of innovation. Mudetec offers the students an interactive experience, also thanks to the new driving simulator that amplifies the thrills and the discovery of the vehicles on display

Lunch Break 

Free Time to Explore Bologna

day 12 / BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Transfer to Modena (approx 30 min)

Enzo Ferrari Museum - The Maranello museum tells the Ferrary story by delving deep into the Prancing Horse’s extraordinary roots and taking visitors on a magnificent journey via its most famous and successful F1 Cars, legendary sports prototypes and GTs, and of course the road cars that have set the benchmark of the entire car industry.

Lunch Break
Umberto Panini Collection - The Umberto panini Collection, housed an hombre farm in Modena,Italy, holds 19 of Maserati’s most treasured vintage and prototype models, including the gorgeous terrifying 250F

Return to Bologna

day 13 / BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free Day to explore Bologna

day 14 / BOLOGNA

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Bologna University Visit and Meeting with the Students - The University of Bologna has very ancient origins that indicate it as the first university in the Western world. Its history is intertwined with that of great figures who worked in the fields of science and letters and is an indispensable reference in the panorama of European culture.

Lunch Break

Free Afternoon to Explore Bologna

Farewell Dinner & Program Closing

day 15 / RETURN

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Depart Bologna, Italy for Home

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