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The project involved fifteen months of work to renew the digital presence of Luiss University, rationalizing contents and improving technical performance through the use of Drupal, an open source platform.
The new website of the Luiss Guido Carli University won first place in the Education category of the International Splash Awards 2026, the international recognition given to the best projects created with Drupal, the open source platform used by institutions, universities and large organisations. The award was presented in Rotterdam, on the occasion of the international DrupalCon Europe conference, where it stood out among over 70 projects from all over Europe, bringing this title to Italy for the first time.
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The recognition rewards work that lasted fifteen months, which redefined the entire digital presence of the University by radically transforming its ecosystem and architecture: the volume of content was rationalized from 65,000 to 25,000 pages, publication times were reduced by 70% and performance was increased tenfold, guaranteeing an uptime, i.e. the continuous online availability and reachability of the service, of 99.9%.
The University's first Design System, created by the Luiss team together with SparkFabrik with the strategic consultancy, content architecture and governance of Altura Labs, was created with a multi-brand logic: a single library collects and organizes the elements that define the digital experience of the entire university ecosystem. This is accompanied by a conversational search via Artificial Intelligence linked to official content. Technological choices based on an open source and cloud-native platform, which restore full digital sovereignty.
Present at the awards ceremony for Luiss were representatives of the External Affairs Department, with Massimo Angelini and Silvia D'Angelo, and of the Digital Transformation Department with Francesco Amendola, as well as Matteo Stendardi Turini and Alessandro De Vecchi of SparkFabrik. The speeches that accompanied the collection of the award retraced the genesis and challenges of the project, underlining the importance of open source as a strategic value for sharing knowledge and building a solid, innovative and transparent digital infrastructure.
Massimo Angelini, External Affairs, Corporate Communication & Partnership Director of Luiss declared: "We believe that a university is also measured through the quality of its digital experience. With this project we have decided to consider technology, usability and design as a fundamental part of our identity because we believe that innovation, flexibility and openness are consistent with the values that guide our University. We are proud to be the first Italian university to achieve this result".

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