Begun in the noise of weapons, it ends the same. And if our university was crossed by the emotion that gripped the entire country, at the beginning as at year end, beyond all questions that everyone is asking, it remains one, nagging, which returns : what can we do ? And everyone agree that it is impossible to say that this issue does not concern us. ""Today, we need to mobilize unarmed forces"" writes Erri De Luca also to ward off this improbable face of a country that forgets the values of the Republic. Remember, the values on which the University and it transmits are also the values of the Republic. So the risk of repeating ourselves, we need now more than ever mobilize to best fulfill our missions: attract more young people to higher education, seek and produce knowledge, to disseminate as far as possible our knowledge and ability to innovate, promote, and defend as tolerance, openness to foreign and respect for differences. Beyond the difficulties we face, beyond what can oppose sometimes beyond the constraint we have, all our energy must be stretched towards what brings us together and making the University one of the crucibles where forge civic consciousness, an open community, inventive, responsible also ... These terms are, moreover, among those included in the definition of the broad guidelines of the school plan for 2017-2021 years, such as: they have been defined following the discussions held within all instances of the property during the self-evaluation of the current contract period