The University of Bologna, founded in 1088, is the oldest University of the Western World , with more than 90,000 students and about 5,000 full-time researchers. The Department of Computer Science is composed of about 35 permanent full-time researchers.

In the specific area of service-oriented computing the main research efforts are devoted to the formalisation of choreography and orchestration languages with a particular focus on coordination and transactional aspects.

Main contributions of the University of Bologna to SENSORIA are in the areas of concurrent, distributed and mobile programming, foundations of service-oriented computing, security, and quantitative analysis.