
The secret of the recognised effectiveness of the University of Pizza courses is the almost perfect integration between the flours used and the dough processes, which is a clear result of the possibility of developing the ideal flours for each dough and leavening technique in the Petra® mill.
Università della Pizza® has been the only contemporary Italian pizza school conceived and run within a mill since 2006. In 2012 it created the Manifesto of Contemporary Italian Pizza.
The Manifesto's ten points, written together with some of Italy's best-known food and wine journalists, have charted a highly successful course for contemporary pizzerias and given a new generation of pizza chefs the tools to tackle an ever-changing market.
ONLY pizza chefs and artisan pizzeria owners can apply for an admission interview. Università della Pizza is a specialised course, which excludes attendance in categories other than these to ensure the highest possible level of learning.
Admission to Università della Pizza® can be obtained after an online video interview with one of the teaching g'trainers, who will verify that the minimum requirements for enrolment are met.
Before accepting admission and proceeding with enrolment, each participant must check that they have the ordinary equipment of a pizzeria (work space with kneading machine, oven, and possibly a cold-storage room for handling chariots). This equipment will be used to carry out the practical exercises between the various teaching modules in the school's own workshop.
To attend the online lessons, an internet connection with sufficient average speed to make a video call is required. All lectures will be recorded and made available to participants so that they can review them at their leisure, even in the event of unpredictable connection failures during live lectures.
The course is divided between 'hands-on' modules and 'distance learning' modules to facilitate reconciliation with work within the pizzeria.
From the moment of admission until the end of the course, each participant will have to face learning tests, without the stress of exams because the teachers will intervene at the end of each test to help overcome errors. The purpose of the tests will not be to promote or fail, but to bring the whole group to the same level of knowledge by working on everyone's mistakes. Thus the final certificate will be more valuable.