Pellicani Bocconi Lacrosse Pellicani Bocconi Lacrosse Pellicani Bocconi Lacrosse is an Italian lacrosse team founded in Milan, Italy in 2009. Lacrosse was introduced to Bocconi University by a few students who had played lacrosse before in England and Hong Kong. In 2011, the team won second place at its first appearance in Coppa Italia. The arrival of American player/coach Scott Offerman helped transform the previously strictly amateur team into a more rigorous athletic organization. A.S.D. Bocconi has a very international roster, with players from 5 countries other than Italy represented, the most in Italian lacrosse. In 2011–2012 Bocconi Lacrosse won the Italian National
Bocconi University MBA and Master of Arts in International Affairs (MAIA) with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Johns Hopkins University's Bologna Center. In 2006, research was mainly funded by Bocconi itself (around €1.5 million), the European Union (around €1.4 million) and the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (around €300 thousand), in addition to other external sources (around €11 millions). In 2011, the European Research Council (ERC) assigned around €5 millions to five projects in the area "social science and humanities" led by five Bocconi professors. As of 2007, the University has 20 permanent research