The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) offers undergraduate and graduate studies spanning the spectrum of humanistic, artistic and scientific studies. The institutions position in Florence combines the city’s historic, world-changing achievements in the above three areas with its contemporary innovations and challenges in order to cultivate a culture of knowledge that can be applied by today’s and tomorrow’s global citizens. Beyond the research-based and expressive aspects of the School’s academics, the departments grouped under the School of Professional Studies enact an active learning component through community and civic engagement to not only the arts and sciences but to all academic disciplines at FUA-AUF.

We are the first academic institution in Italy to establish integration projects affiliated to its academic departments and open to the public, in the form of Community Engagement Member Institutions (CEMI). Community Engagement Member Institutions (CEMI) are non-profit entities that support AUF's commitment to cultural integration. Each CEMI is strongly linked to an academic division at AUF. CEMI initiatives and projects signify specific services and structures that are open to the public and involve students in experiential learning results shared with the local Florentine community.