Sports
The University of Rome Tor Vergata is located on a six-hundred-acre campus and hence has a natural vocation for sports. Sports facilities consist of two 5- a-side soccer fields, a tennis court, a basketball court and a volleyball court. They integrate with a number of private sport centres close to the campus which are University partners in order to offer students, professors and technical and administrative staff a diverse range of sports disciplines. The recent establishment of a University Sports Centre (CentroUniversitario Sportivo – CUS) introduced new sports facilities for Tor Vergata students. CUS offers the opportunity to play sports at amateur and competitive level in many disciplines (11-a-side and 5-a-side soccer, basketball, cycling, judo, rugby, swimming, volleyball, tennis, athletics, weightlifting, karate, boxing, taekwondo, beach volleyball, canoeing, fighting, shooting, fencing, table tennis, etc.). CUS relies on technicians in Sport and Exercise Sciences providing advanced skills to achieve considerable results at a national and international level. Important successes in National Student Championships and World University Championships – where Tor Vergata students have won many medals – testify this, as Daniele Garozzo, Medicine and Surgery’ student, wins gold medal men’s fencing Rio Olympics 2016. A Sports Festival and a Sports Culture Week are organised in May with the participation of thousands of students and visitors. They offer a chance to rethink sports and physical activities as tools to promote wellness and health. The University is also famous for awarding the yearly Prize ‘Tor Vergata – Ethics in Sports’, now reaching its 14th edition. This event has seen the presence of great sports personalities – both domestic and international – who are famous for their fair play and commitment to sports and social issues (Alex Zanardi, Valentina Vezzali, Michel Platini, Cesare Prandelli, Carlton Mayer, Alex Ferguson).
Garden Golf University
The University of Rome Tor Vergata is the first Italian University and one of the few worldwide with a golf
course. It is the first illuminated practice field in Rome featuring a golf school.
Tor Vergata Sailing Club
It is an amateur sports club where to practice sea sports and sailing sports.
Music
Roma Sinfonietta and the Association of music today
organise a season of concerts at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Auditorium “Ennio Morricone” at the Macroaerea of Humanities and Philosophy.
The 2016/2017 season has further expanded its range, embracing chamber music of the great composers and jazz, contemporary music theatre and traditional music of the Italian regions, the “bel canto” and tango, the music of medieval poems and meetings with today’s composers.
If you like to sing, you can become part of the Choir of Tor Vergata founded in 1997 by Agostino Ziino,
Professor of History of Music at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and its Artistic Director. Professors, students and technical staff of the University take part in this project, which is officially recognised as the Ateneo Choir. Since 1999, the Choir has been permanently conducted by Maestro Stefano Cucci. If you are interested, visit the Facebook page of Choir Claudio Casini. If you like playing music, you can book a music rehearsal space dedicated to music-making at Campus X!
Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden of the University of Rome Tor Vergata (TVBG) was created in 2005 within the area of the university, on a surface of approximately 82 hectares, which makes it the
biggest university Botanical Garden in Europe. It represents a new concept among botanical gardens, targeting several aims at the same time: didactic, research, innovation and support to industrial development. For that reason, TVBG has pursued four vocations, acting as a cultural, educational, social and
scientific institution at once. It is managed by a team of botanists together with professors and researchers from the Department of Biology belonging to the University of Rome Tor Vergata. www.bio.uniroma2.it/ortobotanico/
“Archeologia Per Roma” Museum
“Archeologia Per Roma” Museum is the first didactic and interactive museum of Archaeology in Rome. It offers an original viewpoint on the whole of the Capital’s Archaeology describing a different relationship between the City Centre and suburban areas. The programme schedules a number of didactic, cultural and leisure activities for both adults and children which are organised by CESTER, a University spin-off. Entry to the Museum is free of charge. www.museoapr.it
Psychological Counseling and sex counseling service
The Psychological Counseling Centre provides students with information about their psychological and aptitude level using interviews and psychometric assessment. The Sex Counseling Service, which is unique in Italy, free and open to the entire university community, has the aim to meet the help requests for sexual, emotional, or relational problems, as well as for sexual orientation, gender identity or for any abuse related to sexuality.