SOAE 2027 logo SOAE 2027Naples · 8–10 Sept

The venue

College of Engineering
Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School

Fuorigrotta, Naples: modern conference facilities in one of the city’s main business and innovation districts.

  • Fuorigrotta, Naples
  • 8–10 September 2027

Where we meet

Located in Fuorigrotta, one of the city’s main business and innovation districts, the venue pairs modern conference facilities with a comfortable setting for focused discussions. It offers easy access to beautiful parks, authentic pizzerias and public transport, and it is just a short walk from the iconic Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, the beating heart of Neapolitan football passion.

Aerial view of Fuorigrotta showing the College of Engineering (Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School, Federico II), the Maradona Stadium, STEMS-CNR and the Metro Line 2 and Cumana stations Fuorigrotta Maradona Stadium College of EngineeringPolytechnic and Basic Sciences School Metro Line 2 Cumana STEMS–CNRLab visit tour
Imagery © Google Earth

  • Getting there

    Metro Line 2 and the Cumana railway stop right by the venue: two stops to the historic centre.

  • Lab visit tour

    STEMS–CNR, the Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Energy and Sustainable Mobility, is next door and will open its laboratories to participants.

  • Where to stay

    Plenty of hotels and B&Bs in the neighbourhood and along the metro line.

University of Naples Federico II

The University of Naples Federico II (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is the oldest public, secular university in the world, founded on 5 June 1224 by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. With over 80,000 enrolled students, it is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in Italy and Europe, and consistently ranks high worldwide across many fields of research.

The College of Engineering building, Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School, Federico II, Naples
  • Participants in a lecture room
  • Lecture room at the College of Engineering

Conference rooms

300seats · First floor

Massimilla Auditorium

First floor plan with the Massimilla Auditorium (Aula Magna)
Massimilla Auditorium
5 × 150–200seats · Second floor

Five parallel-session rooms

Second floor plan with five lecture rooms
One of the second-floor lecture rooms

Discover Naples

Naples is living poetry: a mosaic of contrasts where the cracks of time frame timeless masterpieces, and the chaos of the narrow alleys melts into the vastness of the sea. Exploring its poetic soul means losing oneself in some of its most iconic nuances.

  • The layered city

    Naples is the only city of the ancient world that never perished, like a Pompeii that was never buried. A place of “mille colori”, a thousand colours, where noble palaces, narrow alleys and bustling squares overlap through the centuries.

    Matilde Serao

  • The untamed soul

    A “dying and immortal” town, a woman with smudged make-up from too many tears and too much laughter. It is loud, passionate and generous with its beauty.

    Maurizio de Giovanni

  • The beauty of the Gulf

    The skyline dominated by Mount Vesuvius and the seafront promenades offer dreamlike scenery. “See Naples and die”, the saying made famous by Goethe, captures the idea that this view is the pinnacle of wonder.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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