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Why UNIUD

UNIUD is a young dynamic university whose mission, since its foundation in 1978, has been to promote higher education by imparting knowledge and generating new ideas at the cutting edge of society. The key of our success at both the national and international level is the quality and enthusiasm of all of its components. we value merit Every year the best graduates of the University are awarded grants that include tuition reductions for enrollment in master degree courses and facilitations in job placement programs. Info: [email protected] we are mindful Uniud offers various services to ensure the well-being of its students, so as to assist those who have problems adapting to university life or those who encounter difficulties during their studies. They comprise free laboratories for anxiety management, study methods, effective communication skills, mindfulness, meditation, problem solving and decision making (“Agiatamente Project”). we take care of you The attention we give to students is a real added value: every course has a tutor who can help and take care of students.

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Udine University, situated in Udine, a town in the region of , Udine is at the heart of Europe. A few is one of the most north-eastern , is in the very heart of Europe. UNIUD and Udine have a relaxed kilometers away there is , an important Longobard sites in the student-friendly atmosphere and are within easy reach of many places of interest old Roman town founded in 181 BC, world, and with rich archeological finds, where is well-known for its quality ham. in Italy, Europe and beyond. students and professors from the is a star-shaped jewel, University often go on digs. and there are numerous medieval Aquileia also has the Heroes’ castles in the Friuli hills. Cemetery: from here, in 1917, the body of the Unknown Soldier was taken to , where he now rests at the Altar of the Motherland, in memory of those who died in all wars.

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VENEZIA ADRIATIC SEA 120 km Ph. Marco Milani (9-10), Matteo Lavazza SerantoVerin (1-4) (3-6-8), , Mario Fabio Parenzan (7), Alessandro BeltrameClaudio (2). Castiglioni 5),

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT GUIDE UNIUD / 4 UNIUD / 5 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT GUIDE LIVING SPACES At the heart of your university experience you will find great accommodation, facilities, student support and social life. The campuses are all spacious, with plenty of gardens and green areas. The libraries are well-equipped, so you can sit and study in peace. There is accommodation at student halls of residence, or if you prefer you can rent a flat in town. You can socialize with fellow students at the coffee machine or in the canteen.

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LABORATORIES AND TEACHERS At UNIUD you will find a staff of dedicated, experienced and inspirational teachers who will challenge you to achieve your best. You will work with enthusiastic researchers and lecturers in lectures, seminars and tutorials, and you will also find time for independent study. All students are allocated a personal tutor, who will help them solve any problems they meet. There is a vast variety of laboratories available for you: state-of-the-art science laboratories, language laboratories and it rooms.

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AGRICULTURE ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE BIOTECHNOLOGY 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSE • Agricultural science • Cultural Tourism; • Biotechnology • Animal Health and Breeding • D.A.M.S. – Performing Arts (Gorizia MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE • Food Sciences and Technology Campus) • Molecular Biotechnologies • Viticulture and • Literature • Health biotechnologies - (courses held in Udine, Trento • Preservation of Cultural Heritage MODULES TAUGHT and San Michele all’Adige) MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE • Art History and Heritage • Agricultural Science and Technology Preservation • Environmental Science and • Classics: archaeology; History and Technology Literature (courses held in Udine and COMMUNICATION STUDIES • Food Science and Technology – ) MODULES TAUGHT • Historical studies from the Middle 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH; Ages to the Contemporary Age • Public Relations (Gorizia Campus) • Viticulture, Oenology and Marketing (courses held in Udine and Trieste); MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE (courses held in Udine, Conegliano, • Film and Audiovisual Studies (Gorizia • Integrated Communication Studies and Bolzano) Campus) for Businesses and Organizations • Nutrition and Animal Resources • Italian Language and Culture (Gorizia Campus) (courses held in Udine and Trieste); • Philosophy (courses held in Udine and Trieste)

DOUBLE DEGREE COURSES

• Philosophy - Double Degree THE EUROPEAN CREDIT TRANSFER ITALIAN LANGUAGE AGRICULTURE ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE curriculum with the University of AND ACCUMULATION SYSTEM (ECTS) REQUIREMENTS 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES Trieste (Italy) and the University of • Viticulture and Oenology – Double • Preservation of Cultural Heritage Bamberg () ECTS is the credit system far higher education used in the All incoming exchange students Degrees Curricula with the –Double Degree curriculum “Studi European Higher Education Area. ECTS credits are based must have the Common European University of Trento (Italy), the italo-francesi” with the Université on the workload students need in order to achieve expected Framework’s B1 level of proficiency. Hochschule Geisenheim University Blaise Pascal – Clermont Ferrand learning outcomes. Learning outcomes describe what a Italian language courses at (Germany), the Universidad Nacional () BIOTECHNOLOGY de Cuyo – Mendoza (Argentina), the learner is expected to know, understand and be able to do Elementary, Intermediate and MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE Instituto Federal Rio Grande do Sul MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE • History Studies: from the Middle after successful completion of a process of learning. Advanced levels are offered during – Bento Gonçalves () • Health biotechnologies - Double Further information regarding the number of ECTS credits the semester. Intensive courses are Age to the contemporary Age - Degree curriculum with the IMC MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE Double Degree curriculum with the awarded far each course is available at www.uniud.it held throughout the academic year. University of Applied Sciences – • Viticulture, Oenology and Marketing Université de Rouen (France) and Krems (Austria) - Double Degree Curriculum the University of Trieste (Italy) with the Hochschule Geisenheim • Film and Audiovisual Studies (Gorizia University (Germany) and the Campus) - Double Degree curriculum University of Torino (Italy) with tOther European universities in France, Italy, , Germany, United Kingdom and

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ECONOMICS EDUCATION AND ENGINEERING FOREIGN LANGUAGES MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER MEDICINE 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES TEACHER TRAINING AND ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURES SCIENCE AND MULTIMEDIA 6 YEAR DEGREE COURSE • Business Economics • Medicine and Surgery 5 YEAR DEGREE COURSES 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSE 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSE 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES • Business Economics (Pordenone • Primary Education • Architecture Sciences • Foreign Languages and Literatures • Computer Science Campus) 3 YEAR MEDICALLY-RELATED • Civil Engineering – MODULES TAUGHT IN • Mathematics • Economics and commerce DEGREE COURSES • Electrical Engineering ENGLISH • Multimedia and Web Technologies, • Allied Health Professions: • Management Engineering • Cultural Mediation - MODULES • Multimedia Science and Technology MASTER’S DEGREE COURSES Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, • Mechanical Engineering TAUGHT IN ENGLISH (Pordenone Campus) • Banking and Finance – LAW Health Radiology Techniques, MODULES TAUGHT Biomedical Laboratory Techniques, MASTER’S DEGREE COURSE MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH 3 YEAR DEGREE COURSES MASTER’S DEGREE COURSES • European and International COURSES Work Prevention Techniques, • Business Economics: • Legal Studies for Firms and • Architecture Languages and Literatures – • Computer Science - MODULES Logopaedics, Sport Sciences, Curriculum in Administration and Institutions • Civil Engineering – MODULES MODULES TAUGHT TAUGHT IN ENGLISH Rehabilitation (courses held in Control TAUGHT IN ENGLISH IN ENGLISH • Mathematics Udine, Pordenone Campus and in • Curriculum in Management • Electrical Engineering – MODULES 5 YEAR DEGREE COURSES • Translation and cultural mediation - • Multimedia Communication Trieste) and Organization: MODULES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH • Law MODULES TAUGHT and Information Technologies • Sport Sciences and Physical TAUGHT IN ENGLISH • Energy and Environmental IN ENGLISH (Pordenone Campus) - MODULES Education ( • Economics – COMPLETELY Engineering - MODULES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH Campus) TAUGHT IN ENGLISH TAUGHT IN ENGLISH • Environmental Engineering • Physics (courses held in Udine MASTER’S DEGREE COURSES • Management Engineering – and Trieste) • Sport Sciences MODULES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH • Mechanical Engineering

DOUBLE DEGREE COURSES DOUBLE DEGREE COURSES

ECONOMICS ENGINEERING FOREIGN LANGUAGES MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER MASTER’S DEGREE AND ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURES SCIENCE AND MULTIMEDIA COURSES MASTER’S DEGREE MASTER’S DEGREE MASTER’S DEGREE • Economics – Double Degree COURSES COURSES COURSES curriculum with the University • Electrical Engineering – Double • European and International • Computer Science – Double Degree of Graz (Austria) Degree curriculum with the Alpen Languages and Literatures – curriculum with the Alpen Adria Adria University – Klagenfurt Double Degree curriculum in University of Klagenfurt (Austria); (Austria) “Austrian Literature” with the • Multimedia Communication • Management Engineering – Double University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and Information Technologies Degree curricula with the FH and Double Degree Curriculum in (Pordenone Campus) Double Joanneum University of Applied “World Literatures and cultures” Degree curricula with the Alpen Sciences – Graz (Austria) and the with the University of Ottawa Adria University of Klagenfurt Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt (Canada) (Austria) and with the Pontifical (Austria) Ambrosian Institute of Sacred Music (Città del Vaticano)

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If you wish to enroll in a degree 1 Where 1st Semester 1 1 program of the University of Udine, you have to acquire the statement Citizens from the Deadlines are published on the Lectures and seminars Nomination of exchange Nomination letter of comparability. EU, Iceland, Norway, Italian Ministry of University (MIUR) from September to January. student 1st semester: May webpage every year Exam sessions: nd Please, follow the instructions you , San Marino, Your institution must send an e-mail 2 semester: September can find on the web page January and February Liechtenstein and non- listing your name and surname, 2 www.uniud.it/it/international-area, When your e-mail address and your area EU citizens with a 2st Semester complete the modules you will find Usually between March of study to [email protected]. If you Students application on the webpage and complete valid residence permit and ApriI Lectures and seminars from have been nominated for an form the on-line procedure or send the (permesso di soggiorno) February to June. exchange programme, your Sending 1st semester: July modules through e-mail to CIMEA Institution must send an e-mail to nd • Have to apply directly to UNIUD Exam sessions: 2 semester: November ([email protected]) specifying [email protected] listing your name, • Are included in the same ranking June, July and September your request e-mail address and area of study list as Italian citizens for the admission test (if required) 2 • Must pass a specific Italian language competence test, Application form unless differently specified or Information regarding the exempted application procedure will be sent to you through e-mail. For more 2 information: www.uniud.it Non-EU Citizens resident MAIN INTERNATIONAL abroad • Must submit a pre-application MOBILITY SERVICES request to the Italian Embassy, Consulate or Institute of Culture in their Country, following the Italian Ministry of the University • Erasmus+ Study and traineeship (MIUR) requirements • International Student exchange • Are included in reserved ranking mobility lists for admission • Thesis Research mobility • Must pass a specific Italian • Marco Polo Programme language competence test, • Other international student unless differently specified or mobilities for study or traineeship exempted

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INCOMING STUDENTS GUIDE Exchange students can access the guidelines for exchange programmes at www.uniud.it

ENROLMENT If you pIan to study at UNIUD, please contact: [email protected] for information about admission and enrollment, fees, procedure and study plans.

HEALTH INSURANCE EU citizens should ask for the European Health Card (TEAM) in their home country. Non-EU citizens must take out private health insurance to cover their entire stay.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT GUIDE UNIUD / 14 UNIUD / 15 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT GUIDE IMMIGRATION HOW TO PROCEDURE GET TO UDINE EU citizens must be in possession of a valid identity By coach from Trieste Airport: card or passport. Non-EU citizens must contact the www.aeroporto.fvg.it Italian Embassy in their Country to check on visa By train from and requirements for an exchange study period train stations: or enrollment in Italy. In addition, identity cards and www.trenitalia.it passports (which cover the full study period in Udine), visas, health insurance and 4 passport-sized photos By car, taking the are required for the residence permit. Udine Sud exit on the A23 motorway.

HOUSING COST Information and advice about OF LIVING housing is available at the Living expenses International Office and the for students, following website: depending on their www.uniud.it accommodation and lifestyle, range between e 400 and e 1.000.

TOURIST INFORMATION UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES Turismo FVG Turismo FVG Udine Tourist AND FACILITIES InfoPoint Aeroporto Toll-free number Office t. +39-0481-476079 800-016044 (09-18) Piazza I Maggio, 7 Udine The University of Udine is located f. +39-0481-776729 t.+39-0431-387130 33100 Italy in the historic centre of Udine, [email protected] t.+39-0431-387111 t. +39 (0)432 295972 and has 3 campuses in the region www.turismofvg.it f. +39 (0)432 504743 of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Gorizia, Welcome Office FVG www.turismofvg.it Pordenone and Gemona del Friuli). It offers free information and [email protected] Each campus has its own libraries, support to improve the stay and the laboratories, computing facilities relocation of students, researchers, and canteens. visiting professors and . www.welcomeoffice.fvg.it

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THE CITY SPORTS AND ITS EVENTS SURROUNDINGS IN FRIULI

Students who come and study in The city has a very rich and varied calendar There is just so much to see and do If you like sport, come to Friuli! Udine always have a great experience of cultural events: from music concerts (rock, in and around Udine! We have a vast range of sporting facilities to offer. and go away with a wealth of happy pop, rap, jazz, classical) to the internationally Cultural sites? Cividale is hard to beat, with Situated half-way between the mountains and the memories: they form life-long acclaimed Far East Cinema Festival in ApriI. its Longobard treasures, but there’s also Villa sea, the choice of sport is yours: in winter you can friendships and many stay on! And don’t miss the food and extravaganza Manin, near , where stayed head north to the mountains, for skiing (all types, Udine is a people-friendly city: it offers all the that is Friuli DOC (September). Shops, art before signing the Treaty of from Alpine to cross-country), snowboarding, attractions of a bigger center – pubs, cafes, galleries, museums: Udine has it all! (you can see his bed!), Palmanova, the star- sledding, skating and tobogganing. Or in summer restaurants, wine bars, coffee shops, discos, shaped fortified town, and the Roman remains you can hike, climb, swim in the Alpine lakes, theaters, cinemas, gyms and so on – but it retains Knowledge Festival at Aquileia. There’s the beautiful unspoilt cycle or mountain bike. its human dimension – it is safe and compact, In order to spread the love for knowledge, during countryside of the hills and valleys, where you If you prefer the sea, it's just a short ride (or cycle) so you can walk or cycle everywhere and at all the first weekend of July the University organizes can eat local food and drink local wine for next away. You can go to Grado or Lignano, where you times of the day and night. an annual Knowledge Festival. The event is to nothing at the “frasche” or village “sagre”. can swim, sail, kite surf, wind surf, canoe, do water Moreover, music-lovers can supplement aimed at promoting an exchange of scientific If you want to venture further afield, (Trieste aerobics or snorkeling (the Trieste coast is best their university training at the local conservatory research, educational trends and new knowledges is only 70 kilometers away, Venice 140, and for this), bodyboarding, jet ski, beach volleyball- (www.conservatorio.udine.it). through meetings with internationally acclaimed if you want to visit other countries, Austria, or simply laze on the beach of course. philosophers, writers, journalists and scientists in and are nearby and easily And if you're a football fan, you have to go to the town squares and through didactic laboratories, reached by public transport). Stadio Friuli to watch Udinese! technological installations and debates.

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GENERAL INFORMATION CAMPUSES USEFUL INFORMATION Università degli Studi UDINE FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS di Udine (UNIUD) Via Palladio, 8 International Relations Office* Via Palladio, 8 UD - 33100 Italy Via Gemona, 92 UD - 33100 Italy PORDENONE UD - 33100 Italy www.uniud.it Via Prasecco 3/a *Catch bus n. 1 from the train PN - 33170 Italy station and get off at the bus stop INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY GORIZIA “via Gemona” Via Diaz, 5 AND RELATIONS OFFICE GO - 34170 Italy Contacts: www.uniud.it COURSES tel. +39 (0)432 556226 CONTACT DETAILS www.uniud.it/didattica/offerta FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS [email protected] GENERAL ENQUIRIES tel. +39 (0)432 556497

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