segreteria@villaaurora.it +39-055-412014 At our campus we wish to welcome everyone and everyone with extreme friendliness. Friendliness is more than a feeling; it is an intimate attitude that we want to cultivate and witness. Friendliness is a devotion to each other that we want to learn to express better and better.
At Villa Aurora, no one is excluded. We have been welcoming female students, students, and volunteers from all over the world for many decades, and we make inclusion, with respect for all cultures and all valueand religious orientations, our defining characteristic.
The Institute promotes a culture of meeting and listening. Seminars, conferences, spiritual retreats, liturgical moments, true hospitality for families who come to Florence to undertake cycles of care in the nearby Careggi hospital complex, all testify to the culture of encounter and listening that the Villaaurorian community lives and practices with extreme dedication.
Academic activity at the
Faculty of Theology (FAT)
and the
Department of Languages and Culture (DiLCAI)
and the study projects of our
Research Centers
, are characterized by a solid scientific imprint and a continuous and rigorous passion toward the cultural deepening of phenomena.
Work and professional endeavor respond to a specific divine vocation that we have always intended to honor and enhance, providing security and dignity.
Each person industriously engaged in service to students and guests performs a valuable task of reconciliation and relief to humanity.
Gratitude, first and foremost to God, inspires our daily efforts. Every small step and every milestone achieved is a cause for thanks and praise. We want to be grateful to all those who have spent time with us over the years, with special mention dedicated to the many young people who have volunteered their time and left in our memories anindelible trust in the future of this educational institution.
Witnessing – martyria – was the first and most instinctive form of Christian faith (Jn. 1:34). The qualification “faithful witness” also became a Christological title (Rev. 1:5). Gospel witness consists of the verbal and existential restitution of the Word heard and the event of revelation witnessed. Witnessing cannot be properly “taught”; it is generated by an “event.” The Institute is committed to ensuring that the college campus is a place where evangelical witness is fostered and stimulated, in keeping with the way of life that the Adventist church has always promoted.
