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BOLOGNA CAMPUS ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020 EXCHANGE Presentation

Exchange Guide Bologna Campus A.Y. 2019/2020 Welcome to the of Bologna! This Guide also aims to introduce you to the Produced by This Guide is for international exchange students and its beauty, helping you to discover the places, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna at the Bologna Campus. To make the most of your the art, events, and people that will make your DIRI - International Relations Division experience at the university and to benefit of all experience unique. Exchange Students Desk the cultural and leisure opportunities offered by Editing and grapfhic design the city of Bologna and its students community Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna it is important to learn about the rules and the ARTEC - Industrial Relations, Third Mission and Communication Division procedures to be followed and to find out about the Insitutional Communication Office services offered by the university and its territory. www.unibo.it/exchangestudents

Layout Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna ARTEC - Industrial Relations, Third Mission and Communication Division The origins of the way back, University of Bologna is a Multicampus university with Insitutional Communication Office and it is considered to be the oldest university in the 5 campuses: Bologna, , Forlì, and Printed by Western world. Its history began in 1088, when , a school of excellence, the Collegio Superiore, ACM Spa was first taught freely in the city, and became tied and an Advanced Studies Centre in . to the city of Bologna from the early , Currently the University of Bologna hosts more than Photo establishing the very idea of university. Indeed, the 85.000 enrolled students, including more than 5.000 © Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna very first higher and research structure, foreign students. In addition to these, every year there University Image Bank known as the “universitas studiorum”, was founded are around 2.600 exchange students. The University ARTEC - Industrial Relations, Third Mission and Communication Division in Bologna. The city and the university have lived runs 32 Departments and various locations where Communication Unit side by side for nine centuries, their stories are teaching activities take place and where exchange entwined, a university based firmly in the historical students will also find the offices to help them find Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna centre of the city, where still today students and their way around the programmes, the classrooms www.unibo.it/en teachers live and work among the columns, palaces, and the laboratories. halls, stairways and squares that tell the story of The history of the University of Bologna: their predecessors. www.unibo.it/History The university and the city of Bologna blend into The Multicampus structure: each other, institution and territory, urban history www.unibo.it/University/Multicampus/ and , economy and culture. Today the

3 Table of contents Contacts

Before you come to Bologna pag. 05 At the end of the exchange period pag.29 • Check-out • Finding your way • Transcript of Records • Registering • Organising your trip Other mobility programmes pag.32 • Agreement Before you come • Visa and Residence Permit International Relations Offices pag. 33 • Learning Italian • Healthcare in • Accommodation to Bologna Contacts During the exchange period pag.13 DIRI - International Relations Division • Check-in Via Filippo Re 4 I 40126 Bologna, Italy • Accident and civil liability insurance • Applying for a Residece Permit Exchange Students Desk • Badge, Arrival Statement, Tax Code [email protected] I Tel. (+39) 051 2088101 • Getting started • Username, password and online services + ICM (Mobility outside Europe) and • Libraries and study rooms Mobility CONFAP-ITALY (MCI Brazil) • Course contents, text books and teaching Students coming from Eastern neighbouring materials. Countries (page 32), Russia, Asia, Australia and New • Exams Zealand, USA and Canada: [email protected] • Internships Students coming from Africa, America, Southern • Registering for exams neighbouring Countries and Balkans (page 32): • Grades and passing exams [email protected] • Certification of attendance and of teaching activities not included in the curriculum Office hours: • Changing the study plan and the duration of the Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 10.00 - 12.00 exchange period Tuesday and Thursday: 14.30 - 16.00 • UniboCultura • Get to know the services • Health and support Things change, stay updated and check regularly www.unibo.it/exchangestudents 4 5 Finding your way Registering Organising your trip

To find out if Bologna is the right destination for programmes, but you must carefully assess whether Registering You do not have to be enrolled in the courses to you, you can read all the useful information on the your own general knowledge is suitable for the level After your home university notifies your appointment attend lessons, but it is recommended to submit web page: www.unibo.it/incoming of the course unit you wish to attend. as an exchange at the University of Bologna, your study plan to the International Relations Always contact the International Relations Offices you receive a first e-mail message (“Acceptance Offices in order to check the availability of the Course Units to check the course units you have chosen (see message”) inviting you to complete your online course units you choose. Please note that you must As an exchange student, you can choose course International Relations Offices, page 33). registration. register for the exam sessions to sit exams and you units from different Degree Programmes. You can Please remember that you must agree on your have time to do this after your arrival. However, if find the course unit catalogue on the web page: choices with your university, as it will have to During registration, you must upload a .JPG file with you want to attend the courses, www.unibo.it/CourseUnits recognise the credits you obtain at the University of a passport photo of your face. You can also upload you must register beforehand (see Learning Italian, Use the filters to select the Area, Type, Campus and Bologna (see Learning Agreement, page 8). your Learning Agreement (see Learning Agreement, page 9). Language of the Course Units. When choosing the page 8). course units you must pay attention to: Teaching Calendar and Course Timetable If you want to carry out an internship you have to the rules and constraints of your exchange There is no single date for starting the courses. Each When you have completed your registration, you check in advance if it is possible: find the degree programme: for instance, exchange students within Degree Programme has its own course and exam will automatically receive a second message programmes of the subject areas of your interest, the Erasmus+ programme can choose course units timetable. Lessons generally begin in September (“Confirmation of registration”) containing the read the information on the related web sites of the subject area of the exchange programme in or shortly afterwards, and may be annual, six name of your exchange coordinator (only for Erasmus (studying > curricular internship) and contact the which they were selected and must have a Learning monthly or divided into several sessions. The course + mobility) and your username and password (see relevant offices. For some degree programmes the Agreement consistent with it; timetables are set yearly, just before the start of the Username and password and online services, page information may be available only in Italian. the number of places available: some programmes programmes and they are published in the course 19). have a limited number of places, if they have unit pages starting from July. Organising your trip restricted access; www.unibo.it/CourseUnits Some online services are granted only after There are no set arrival dates. You have to decide the excluded subject areas: some non-Erasmus+ Only for the degree programmes in the Medicine and registering your arrival (Check-in) at the Exchange when to leave for Bologna according to the starting mobility agreements do not allow the choice of area at Ravenna and Rimini campuses you Students Desk (see Check-in, page 14). date of your courses. The start date of your course units in some subject areas. When choosing must consult the degree programmes websites. exchange period corresponds to the date of your your destination check the excluded subject areas Check-in, i.e. when you register your arrival at the at your university; Credits Important: after receiving your username and Exchange Students Desk. At the beginning of each the Campus: check the Campus you have been One Italian credit (CFU, Credito Formativo password, immediately activate your @studio. semester you have the opportunity to participate assigned to and choose the course units delivered Universitario) equals one ECTS credit. Credits unibo.it mailbox and check it often because all in the welcome sessions for exchange students. at your Campus; are obtained exclusively on passing an exam or official notices of the University of Bologna are The dates of the sessions are notified on Check- the level of teaching: except for some exclusions, internship (see Grades and passing exams, page 23). sent only to the address @studio.unibo.it. in. Some Departments run guidance activities. The you can choose course units from First cycle (L, schedule is published on the website. undergraduate) and Second cycle (LM, graduate) 6 7 Learning Agreement Visa and Residence Learning Italian Permit

The first thing to do is to draft the Learning If you are a non-EU citizen and wish to study in There are no specific language requirements for How to enrol Agreement (compulsory for Erasmus+ students, Italy for more than 90 days, you need a Visa to enter studying at the University of Bologna (except for To enrol you must first sit an online test to assess optional for others). The Learning Agreement is Italy. medical and nursing students). your knowledge, just before the semester of your the study plan agreed with your university, which If you stay for less than 90 days, find out from the However, before coming to Bologna you are strongly arrival in Italy. At the end of the online test, you undertakes to recognise the exams passed and Embassy (or Consulate) if you require a Visa. advised to have at least basic knowledge of Italian must register for the oral test which is also credits obtained during the exchange period, and You must apply for the Visa from the Italian (level A2), in order to be able to study and make the compulsory to enrol in the courses. with your exchange coordinator at the University of Embassy in your country of residence, providing most of the lessons. Bologna. The form is provided by your university. the invitation letter from the University of Bologna. The oral test takes place in Bologna. Candidates are You can choose the course units on: vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/en You can sit the Italian Orienting Test in order to admitted to the oral test on a first come, first served www.unibo.it/CourseUnits assess your knowledge of Italian. basis, until all places of each level are filled. Important: you must apply for a Visa for study Contact the International Relations Offices to purposes. You can also attend a MOOC. The tests are required to assess your level of Italian check your options and notify them immediately if www.unibo.it/improvingyouritalian and to assign you to the most appropriate class. you wish to carry out an internship. The Learning To issue the invitation letter, the University of The online test for the courses offered in the first Agreement must be approved and signed by your Bologna must receive a photocopy of your passport. Erasmus+ students can benefit from the Online semester opens in August. The online test for the university and the University of Bologna, before You must apply well in advance for the Visa, as the Linguistic Support – OLS provided by their home courses offered in the second semester opens in starting your mobility, if required by your home visa process can take several months. as well. January. university, or immediately upon arrival at the erasmusplusols.eu/it/ University of Bologna. If you are carrying out your If your exchange lasts for more than 90 days, when A few days in advance, you are sent an e-mail to mobility within the Erasmus+ Studio, Erasmus+ you arrive in Italy you must apply for a Residence In the first and second semesters, the University your @studio.unibo.it account indicating the date International Credit Mobility (ICM), Swiss European Permit. Language Center runs Italian language courses and time for the online test. Mobility and Overseas (a Unibo programme) This is a compulsory procedure for all non-EU for international students. Exchange students can Only the students who have completed the online programmes, at the online registration or later, citizens wishing to stay in Italy for more than 90 attend one course free of charge. registration procedure and have received the you can upload your Learning Agreement to your days (see Applying for a Residence Permit, page 15). If you study in Bologna, you can attend the Italian “Confirmation of registration” message (see personal homepage in AlmaRM, in order to get it language courses at the University Language Registering, page 7) receive this notice. approved. You are notified via email at @studio. Centre (CLA), at Bologna Campus. The courses unibo.it mailbox about the approval or refusal of are held both in the first and second semester, Check your @studio.unibo.it e-mail account your Learning Agreement, along with its reasons. during September (intensive courses), September- regularly and sit the online test immediately, Furthermore, after approval, you you can download December (extensive courses) and February-June because the available places may not fulfill the a signed copy of your Learning Agreement. (extensive courses). whole request.

8 9 Healthcare in Italy

According to the online test and the oral test, if your Check the calendars and application deadlines: The Italian National Health Service is called “Servizio The fee covers the calendar year from 1 January to level is assessed as A2, B1, B2, you shall enrol in www.unibo.it/CLA Sanitario Nazionale” (SSN), and is divided into local 31 December and cannot be split. To get medical the appropriate course and attend the classes. Healthcare Boards (“Aziende Unità Sanitarie Locali - coverage for the entire academic year, you can CLA | Bologna Campus AUSL”). If you are a EU citizen, you must bring your pay both the current year’s fee and the fee for the If your language level turns out to be C1 (Effective Student Administration Office European Health Insurance Card - EHIC (TEAM in following year on arrival. After the payment, your Operational Proficiency) it is assumed that you are Via Filippo Re 10 | 40126 Bologna Italy) in order to have access to medical care. registration must be activated. You can go to one of able to attend the classes and take exams and no Tel. 051 2097750 the SSN offices in Bologna, in via Mengoli 32 or via language course is provided to you. Tel. 051 2099890 Using your card you can go directly to a General Montebello 6. [email protected] Practitioner (“medico di base” or “medico di The Italian courses end with an examination. If famiglia”) choosing one from the list available at If you have a private health insurance (purchased you pass the exam (“idoneo”), you obtain 5 credits www.salute.bologna.it in Italy or in your own country) you may go to any (whatever your level) which are recorded in your General Practitioner, choosing one from the list Transcript of Records. All the costs are charged directly to your insurance of doctors published on the website www.salute. body. If you have not been able to use your European bologna.it The exam grade is not given as a mark out of thirty, Health Insurance Card when you go back, check if but simply as “Idoneo”/“Pass” or “Non Idoneo/Fail”. you can ask your insurance body to reimburse If you need a specialist treatment, you can choose health expenses. Therefore keep payment receipts any , also on the advice of your chosen GP. and health records. You must pay for the visits to the GP and any For some specialist services, the payment of a specialists, and then apply to your insurance “ticket” is required as a contribution to cover company for a refund. part of the costs. For dental care, the national health system provides only diagnostic and urgent It is recommended to check in advanced, by treatment. contacting your insurance company, if the specific treatment can be reimbursed. If you are a non-EU citizen you have access to the National Health Service only after paying an annual registration fee of € 149,77.

10 11 Accommodation

Read the useful information to find accommodation Online platfomrs in Bologna: You can use online platforms for searching www.unibo.it/accommodations accommodation, offering students of the University of Bologna disounted service charges. Important! Bologna welcomes a large number housinganywhere.com During the of students and finding accommodation can be difficult, especially in September at the The tourist portal Bologna Welcome provides a beginning of the academic year. Start looking for lodging search engine available in the Find & Book exchange period accommodation well in advance. It is advisable to section. www.bolognawelcome.com book an accommodation before arriving in Bologna. Advice for those who intend to rent an apartment SAIS from a private landlord To find accommodation in Bologna, you may contact Make extra sure that the offer is genuine before the SAIS (Student Accommodation and Information making payments of any kind. Service). The SAIS supports international students in Beware of scams. finding accommodation in the university residences, Remember the importance of a proper contract. colleges, short-stay accommodation or in private This is required to obtain your residence permit if rented property. They can also help with negotiating you are a non-EU student, but also to safeguard your rental contracts. The service is free of charge. rights. Ask your landlord specifically for a proper Check the website and find out the opportunities, contract. Contact the Lease Contract Registration times and methods to book an accommodation Desk at the University of Bologna if you need help before you arrive. with registering your contract. www.sais.ceur.it www.unibo.it/leasecontractregistrationdesk

The ER.GO “Borsino” For short stays, ER.GO makes accommodation available via an online booking service (“Borsino”), which is updated regularly. You can find it in the “servizi abitativi ad accesso libero” section. www.er-go.it

12 13 Check-in Applying for a Accident and civil Residence Permit liability insurance

Check-in If you are a non-EU student, on Check-in you If you are a non-EU citizen and your exchange the Visa application or a bank account statement The start date of your exchange period corresponds receive information about the Residence Permit period lasts for more than 90 days, you must or, if you have been assigned a scholarship, an to the date of your Check-in at the Exchange and the Arrival Statement which you must enclose apply for a Residence Permit within 8 working official letter detailing its amount, duration and Students Desk, so the first thing you must do when with your application (see Applying for a Residence days following your arrival in Italy. The Exchange issuing body; you arrive in Bologna is registering your arrival Permit, page 15). Students Desk on Check-in makes an appointment • documents proving your accommodation in Italy at the Exchange Students Desk, via Filippo Re 4, with the support service. The support service for (see page 16). Bologna. Accident and civil liability insurance filling in the application for a Residence Permit is As an exchange student, after the Check-in, you are free of charge. Once filled the application, you have to go to a Bring with you: insured against accidents that may occur on the qualified Post Office (“Sportello Amico”) and pay The documents required are: the Electronic Residence Permit (PSE) production • if you are a EU student: your passport or ID university premises or any other place where you carry out study and research activities authorized cost (€ 30,46), pay the Residence Permit fee (€ card; • a copy of the page of your passport with your 40) and submit the application (€ 30). The Post • if you are a non-EU student: passport with by the University, as well as for civil liability personal data, a copy of your entry Visa and Office gives you a receipt which you must always Visa, a copy of your passport front page and a towards third parties while performing institutional copies of any other pages containing Visas and copy of your visa; activities. stamps; carry with you together with your passport until you • any specific forms from your home university • a copy of the invitation letter issued by the receive the Electronic Residence Permit, and an to be filled in order to confirm your arrival. For information: University of Bologna and presented to obtain order to go to the Questura (Immigration Office) for APAT - Insurance Contracts Office the Visa from the Italian Embassy abroad, photographic identification. On check-in you receive the Welcome Kit and Via Acri 3 | 40126 Bologna stamped by the Embassy; • the Arrival Statement issued by the University of Important: the Immigration Office in Bologna does general information about the university. Tel. 051 2098806/808 Bologna; not notify you when your permit is ready via SMS. www.unibo.it/Insuranceforstudents • a € 16 duty stamp (sold at the tobacconists); You also get: However, around 6 to 8 weeks after the photographic • a copy of your health insurance; the insurance identification, you can check on www.questura. • your university badge; policy must be made out in your name and must bologna.it whether your Residence Permit is ready • your Arrival Statement (if you havent’t got any have a duration of no less than the duration of and book an appointment to pick it up. Remember specific form from your home university); the Visa. If you do not have health insurance, to print your pickup booking and bring it with you to • the invitation for a welcome session (only covering the whole exchange a period, you must when they are available). purchase one or register with SSN; the Immigration Office. • a copy of the documents proving you have the funds needed to cover living cost in Italy (the Having collected your residence permit, you must benchmark is minimum € 5.954,00 per year). You send a photocopy of it to [email protected]. can submit the same documents you provided for

14 15 Badge, Arrival Statement, Tax Code

If you forget it, after 180 days your university career registered with the Tax Authorities (Agenzia delle Your university badge is an ID card with a photo If you need an Italian Tax Code, for example to sign is blocked and you cannot sit any exams. Entrate), or, alternatively, notification filed with that confirms your student status at the University a lease contract, you may apply for one from the Tax the police confirming transfer of use (cessione of Bologna. It is needed to access the libraries, the Code Desk at University of Bologna di fabbricato) or provision of hospitality laboratories and the washrooms. It can also be used www.unibo.it/TaxCodeDesk Important: if you stay in Italy for more than (comunicazione di ospitalità). to obtain discounts at the cinema, book loans from Alternatively you may contact the Agenzia delle 90 days and you do not apply for the Residence • If you are staying free, as a guest, with relations, Permit, you are not entitled to sit exams at the friends or acquaintances: a notification filed with libraries and access to the university canteens. Entrate: University of Bologna and you cannot obtain a the police confirming provision of hospitality Transcript of Records. (comunicazione di ospitalità). The Arrival Statement is the official confirmation Agenzia Bologna 1 of your date of arrival and the expected duration Via Marco Polo 60 | 40131 Bologna, If you wish to apply by yourself for a Residence The “comunicazione di ospitalità” must be: Permit, you must go to a qualified Post Office of your exchange period. If you need stamps on Tel. 051 6103111 | Fax 051 6103981 • prepared, dated and signed by the person who specific forms from your home university instead, [email protected] (“Sportello Amico”), collect the kit and follow the gave you the accommodation; they are done by the staff of the Exchange Students Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8.45 - 12.45; instructions. • accompanied by a copy of the identity documents of yours and the declarant and (if a Desk, according to the official date of registration Tuesday and Thursday also 14.30 - 16.30. ACLI (Support service) at the desk. Via Lame 118 | Bologna non-EU citizen) a copy of their residence permit; • accompanied by the confirmation of the delivery Agenzia Bologna 2 CGIL (Support Service) to the Immigration Office at the Police station Important: You must then send the Arrival via Larga 35 | 40138 Bologna Via del 16 | Bologna (Questura) in Bologna. The delivery can be made Statement or the forms to your home university. Tel. 051 6103111 | Fax 051 6103610 via registered e-mail (PEC) to immig.quest.bo@ [email protected] Immigration Office at the Police station pecps.poliziadistato.it, or via registered mail If you lose any documents received on your arrival Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8.45 - 12.45; (Questura) (raccomandata A/R) to Questura di Bologna Via Paolo Bovi Campeggi 13/3 | Bologna or they are stolen, contact the Exchange Students Tuesday and Thursday also 14.30 - 16.30. – Ufficio Immigrazione – Via Bovi Campeggi Desk for a copy. In the case of theft or loss of the 13/3 – 40131 Bologna. Central Post Office (Sportello Amico) badge it is advisable to report to the police. Bring with you your ID card or passport (with the Piazza Minghetti 4 | Bologna Important! If the person who gave you At the end of your exchange period, don’t forget Visa, when necessary) if you are a non-EU citizen. Documents required for confirming the accommodation has not done it yet, first you to Check-out before you go home! availability of accommodation in Italy must send the “comunicazione di ospitalità” On Check-out you receive another very important • If you have a bed or room in a hall (e.g. ER.GO) along with the copies of the identity documents document: the Certificate of Departure which is or other residence: declaration from the to the Immigration Office at the Police station required by your university to calculate the actual administrator confirming that your place is booked. (Questura) in Bologna and then attach a copy duration of your exchange period. • If you pay rent for a bed, a room or an apartment: of the “comunicazione di ospitalità”, including a copy of the rental contract, which must the copies of the identity documents and the state your name, must be signed and must be delivery confirmation, to your Residence Permit application. 16 17 Getting started Username, password and online services

After the Check-in, you must contact your exchange The online study plan is compulsory for all exchange In the “Confirmation of registration” message (see Studenti Online Help Desk coordinator to check your study plan and to sign the students and it is required to sit the exams. The Registering, page 7) you receive your username and It is the University service that can provide you with Learning Agreement, if it has not been signed prior service is available from your personal homepage password (university credentials) needed to access support in using your username and password. to your arrival. on AlmaRM (“Fill in your study plan” button), only the online services available on the website www. Tel. 051 2099882 after your Check-in. unibo.it [email protected] For questions on calendars, course timetable, The Welcome Kit you receive on Check-in includes Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00 - 13.00 and exams, exam sessions and the organisation detailed instructions. You must first log in: 14.00 - 17.00 of teaching activities in general, contact the AlmaRM – Accesso studenti International Relations Offices. From your personal Homepage you can also access www.unibo.it/AlmarmStudenti Other online services for students are: AlmaEsami (“Register for an exam” button). La mia email The university buildings are located all over the city For more details see Registering for exams, page 21. The system will ask you to change your password. www.unibo.it/Myemail of Bologna and in some municipalities nearby. Pay attention when entering your password (PIN/ The free mail box has 50 GB of space and integrated In the Welcome Kit you find a map of the city PUK) as this comprises numbers and upper and functions including chat, calendar management and indicating the various teaching buildings. lower case letters and it is very easy to make a sharing, Smartphone access and address book. Find the courses at: www.unibo.it/CourseUnits mistake. Wi-Fi wireless connection When you have chosen all the courses you wish If you forget your password you can reset it to its Students can connect to and surf the Internet using to attend at the University of Bologna, according default value (PUK), by connecting to: ALMAWIFI, Iperbole Wireless, and Eduroam. to the approved Learning Agreement, and checked www.dsa.unibo.it/recuperocredenziali www.unibo.it/Wireless the schedules and times of the lessons, you must complete your online study plan. The required code (“Cod. Fisc. Personale”) is Alma Digital Library This and other operations can be done on: indicated in the Confirmation of registration almadl.unibo.it AlmaRM - Accesso studenti message and is printed on your badge. The University of Bologna digital library gathers, www.unibo.it/AlmarmStudenti For further help please, send an e-mail to: stores and makes available digital collections on This is the personal homepage for exchange Italian Emergency telephone numbers: [email protected]. the web, to support teaching and research. students. You can change your password, check 112 - European Emergency Number your personal data and exchange data, manage your 113 - Emergency Police Help Number From AlmaRM you can directly access the contact details and print the acceptance message. 115 - Fire Department Study plan (Fill in your study plan) To access this, see Username, password and online 118 - Medical Emergency AlmaEsami (Register for an exam) services, page 19.

18 19 Libraries Course contents, text books and study rooms and teaching materials Exams

The University of Bologna has a broad network of To register, take an ID document to the Sala Borsa Course contents, text books and teaching materials Exams museums, libraries and documentary services and fill in the application form. It is free of charge In the course unit catalogue you can find a syllabus The procedures for conducting the exams are providing support to teaching, research and the and can be used in all municipal libraries. (learning outcomes, course contents, teaching published in each course unit page (assessment professional and cultural activities of students, www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it and assessment methods and tools, language method). professors, technicians, graduates and scholars of instruction) and the list of books and texts www.unibo.it/CourseUnits from any country. In the study rooms and multi-purpose centres, you (bibliography/ readings) for each course unit. Consult the complete list on the following page: can read and study, source information, and use At the end of the exam, the professor informs you www.unibo.it/LibrariesMuseumsandstudyfacilities a range of services (photocopying, PCs for typing Before purchasing text books, wait for the start of verbally of your grade or, in the case of written dissertations and access to the Internet, info- lessons and follow the instructions given by the exams, publishes the grades in Almaesami. You can The Bologna University Library, with important points on the university and the city), and take part professors. You may purchase teaching materials in accept the grade or refuse it. In the latter case, you collections of antique and modern books, is the in cultural, recreational and learning events run the bookshop or borrow them from the library. To can to sit the exam again during another available University’s central library, offering general library directly by student groups. search for books and materials: exam session. Once you have accepted the grade, services, conservation and historical and scientific www.unibo.it/StudyMultimediaRooms www.biblioteche.unibo.it the professor records it in AlmaEsami. research facilities. www.bub.unibo.it At Palazzo Paleotti, in Via Zamboni 25, there are To consult and download teaching material prepared Subsequently, when you access your career details 250 workstations for accessing the Internet, open by the professors, you can use “Insegnamenti online in your personal homepage in AlmaRM you may The Municipality of Bologna also runs local public Monday to Friday from 8.00 to 24.00, Saturday and - Supporto online alla didattica” service. read “verbalizzato” (“recorded”) and the grade/ libraries; for the full list see: Sunday from 8.00 to 22.00. iol.unibo.it evaluation next to the exam. Check your career www.bibliotechebologna.it You can consult bibliographical catalogues, details regularly and, if any exams have not been The main municipal library is the Sala Borsa in databases, digital documents, e-magazines, books, recorded, contact the professor. piazza del Nettuno 3 a cultural space in Palazzo dictionaries and encyclopaedia from any computer Some course units are known as “integrated d’Accursio, the historical headquarters of the connected to the University network. Workstations courses”, and have 2 or more components. Municipality, looking out over piazza Maggiore. The are available for short consultations and word As an exchange student, you may sit both the exam library has a rich multimedia collection of books, processing, and computers are available for the for a single component (obtaining only the credits newspapers, magazines, maps, videos, CD-ROMs, blind and sight-impaired. for that component) or the whole integrated course. DVDs and texts also in foreign languages. The Show your university badge and an ID document, to entry to the Sala Borsa Library is free. Only for get in. Important: all exams must be taken during some services (loans, Internet, viewings) you must www.unibo.it/PalazzoPaleottiStudyCentre the period agreed upon for your exchange register and present your card. programme (see page. 24).

20 21 Internships Grades and passing exams Registering for exams Certification of attendance and of teaching activities not included in the curriculum

Internships For information about internship within the Grades and passing exams In the Transcript of Records, which will be issued During your exchange period, you can also carry out Erasmus+ for Traineeship programme, see page 32. The grades in the Italian university system are at the end of the exchange period, the grades are a curricular internship. The curricular internship expressed out of thirty. indicated in the Italian scale out of thirty and are offers you the chance to have work experience to Registering for exams You pass an exam or internship with a grade of at converted in the ECTS scale. complete your university training and obtain the Before sitting an exam you must enter it in least 18/30. credits laid down in your study plan. your online study plan. The uploaded exams are If you obtain full grade (30/30) the examination Certification of attendance and of teaching acti- immediately visible on: board may also decide to award you honours (lode). vities not included in the curriculum It is possible to carry out an internship outside AlmaEsami If you need a certificate of attendance, ask the university (businesses, public institutions, almaesami.unibo.it Important: failed exams are not usually recorded the professor for it during the first lesson. The professional firms, etc.) or in the university in Almaesami and therefore they are not listed professor will decide whether to issue a certificate (laboratories, research centres, administrative You can access AlmaEsami directly from your in your Transcript of Records. If your university of attendance at the end of the course. departments, etc.), both in Italy and abroad. If personal homepage on AlmaRM (“Register for an requires failed exams also to be listed in your you want to carry out an internship you have to exam” button). In AlmaEsami: Transcript of Records, you must explicitly ask In the Italian system, attendance alone is not check in advance if it is possible: find the degree • you can consult the dates of the exam sessions. the professor to record the “fail”, immediately sufficient for obtaining credits. programmes of the subject areas you are interested When the professors publish the sessions, after the exam. If you wish to take part in activities that are not in, read the information on the relevant web sites alongside each exam the “Prenota” button The failed exam can be recorded as “respinto” in the course unit catalogue and which can (studying > curricular internship) and contact the (book) is enabled; (rejected), if you finished and failed the therefore not be included in your study plan indicated offices. For some degree programmes • you can register for the exam sessions. Once examination, or “ritirato” (withdrawn), if you (some internships, seminars, preparation of the the information may be available only in Italian. To you have seen the exam session dates, you can didn’t finish the examination. It is not possible dissertation, etc.), you must immediately agree consult the list of institutions holding agreements register for the exam sessions according to the to record a numerical grade lower than 18. If with the professor on how to perform them and with the university for internships and book them schedule set by the professors; you fail the exam you do not obtain the relative certify them. directly online, access the Online Student Internship • the professors record the exam results. credits. Service using your username and password. The actual performance of these activities and their Check your career details in your personal hompage For some activities, i.e. language exams, including evaluation can be certified by the professors on These activities must also be included in your in AlmaRM, to monitor your exam recordings. the Italian language courses, some internships, stamped and signed headed paper, but they cannot Learning Agreement and in your Study Plan and laboratories and seminars, you are not given a be recorded in Almaesami and therefore are not will be recorded in AlmaEsami. In some cases, the grade but merely a “Idoneo”/“Pass”. The same reported in your Transcript of Records. hosting institutions issue a further certification “Idoneo”/“Pass is listed in the Transcript of Records. which details the internship (number of hours, The “Idoneo”/”Pass” can never be transformed into Always check in advance whether your university subject, etc.). a numerical grade. accepts this kind of certification. www.unibo.it/tirocini > tirocini curriculari (in Italian) 22 23 Changing the study plan UniboCultura and the duration of the Get to know the services exchange period

Variations in your study plan must always be The latter shall notify the Exchange Students Desk UniboCultura Food Courts are open from Monday to Friday from authorized by the University of Bologna and your of his/her approval by e-mail to: www.unibo.it/UniboCulturaInitiatives 11.30 to 15.30 at Via Petroni 33 and Via Azzo Gardino university. Erasmus+ students must ask their [email protected] UniboCultura organises the cultural events 33 (Spazio Polifunzionale Unione). university for the Learning Agreement modification and meetings promoted by the University. The Students can also use the Pausa Pranzo @Le form. If you need one, you can obtain an updated Arrival programme includes exhibitions, concerts, lectures, Residenze Universitarie, at the Irnerio (Piazza Statement. conferences, art, music and cinema events, Puntoni 1) and Morgagni residences (Largo As an exchange student you are allowed to stay If you want to leave early, you just need to inform dance and theatre, poetry readings and scientific Trombetti 1/2 ) from Monday to Friday from 12.00 at the University of Bologna for the agreed period your home university and check how the amount of communication events. to 15.00. by home and host universities as shown in your your grant is affected by your early departure. homepage in AlmaRM (Time of stay). Important: remember to Check-out before leaving. University Choir and Orchestra Free Time and Leisure Activities www.collegiummusicumbologna.com www.unibo.it/LeisureTime All activities and exams must be carried out Extending your Residence Permit The Collegium Musicum represents the official Student discounts are available for leisure activities. choirs and orchestra of the University of Bologna. during the agreed period. For example, if your If you are a non-EU citizen, and need to extend Consult the website to find out more. The three choirs (mixed, chamber and female) and a exchange lasts 6 months, you can take exams your Residence Permit, you must apply for symphonic orchestra have more than 300 members within 6 months of your arrival. After 6 months renewal 60 days prior to its expiry date. Contact Sport every year, most of whom are Italian or foreign you must Check-out and it is no longer possible the Exchange Students Desk for this procedure. www.cusb.unibo.it university students. to take exams. The costs of the renewal are the same as those For all sports activities, joint the Bologna University Via Zamboni 33 | 40126 Bologna for the issue of the original Residence Permit. Sports Centre | CUSB. Tel. 051 2099069 | Fax 051 2099068 If you want to take exams beyond the agreed period, You must also extend your health insurance You may use your CUSB badge to sign up for and take [email protected] you need to ask for an extension. coverage. part in summer and winter activities, courses and The authorization must be requested from your competitions throughout the University campuses; Get to know the services university and the coordinator of your exchange at you may also take advantage of discounts at partner Lunch and Dinner the University of Bologna. centres and of insurance policies. University canteens The complete list of activities, divided by sector, can www.unibo.it/CanteensandCatering be found on the CUSB website. Exchange students have discounts at the university CUSB | Bologna canteens, when they show their badge. Via San Giacomo 9/2 | 40126 Bologna Pausa Pranzo@Unibo Tel. 051 4212611 University students can eat their own meals at food [email protected] courts provided with seats, microwave ovens, sinks, snack and hot and cold drinks vending machines and washrooms. 24 25 Health and support

Student Associations With other forms of public transport: If you need medical care, you must contact a Regional Healthcare Service www.unibo.it/StudentAssociations www.unibo.it/Transport General Practitioner (also known as the “family www.saluter.it Students may join associations and . doctor”); you can choose one from the list published freephone number 800 033 033 Consult the websites to find out about the activities By bike: on: www.salute.bologna.it > Cerca Medico Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 18.00; organised for international students. Dynamo - dynamo.bo.it/ Saturday, 8.30 - 13.00. It is the bike station (velostazione) in Bologna. At If you are a EU citizen, you must bring your European Living in Bologna Dynamo, you can benefit from various services at Health Insurance Card – EHIC/“TEAM card”) with you. Dental care Tourist information is published by the Municipality discounted fares: rent-a-bike, secure parking for For dental care, the National Health Service (SSN) of Bologna, offering a wide range of local resources bicycles, bicycle repair shop or bicycle self-repair. If you are a non-EU citizen and have private provides only diagnostic and urgent treatment. For and opportunities. Find out more on Show your student card to take advantage of the insurance, you must pay for your medical routine work you must contact a private dentist, or www.bolognawelcome.com following discounts: 20% off, on subscriptions for examination; the doctor gives you an invoice you you may also use the dental care service available secure parking for bicycles; 10% off, on bicycle can send to the insurance company for a refund. It is at the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Getting Around repair shop; 5% off, on purchases of helmets, recommended to check in advanced, by contacting (DiBiNeM). With TPER Public Transport: chains and locks; bicycle self-repair. You can use your insurance company, if the specific treatment The service offers a first visit for free and a 30% www..it repair tools for free and purchase materials at can be reimbursed. discount on some further visits. Exchange students (except students enrolled in discounted price. For information: www.dibinem.unibo.it joint/multiple degrees) have the opportunity to If the GP thinks you need to see a specialist, you purchase a personal urban bus pass (TPER service, www..bologna.it/trasporti > Muoversi a receive a prescription form; you must take this to a Clinica Odontoiatrica (Dental Clinic) only for Bologna) for a total cost of € 10, valid for piedi e in bici CUP (Centro Unico di Prenotazione) point to book an Via S. Vitale 59 | 40125 Bologna the entire period of stay (up to a maximum of one Find out the services for cyclists in Bologna: bike appointment. For the list see: Tel. 051 2088123 year). paths, bike sharing (), rentals and more. www.salute.bologna.it > Elenco sportelli CUP Some Pharmacies have a CUP point too. To purchase the pass you must log in to UniboSostenibile - www.sostenibilita.unibo.it www.salute.bologna.it > Elenco farmacie StudentiOnline with the University username and Find out the initiatives organised by the University password, pay online by credit card and collect the of Bologna about environmental sustainability. Remember that for some specialist services, you pass at the TPER point in Via Marconi 4, corner Via must pay a “ticket” as a contribution to cover Lame in Bologna, during the opening hours. part of the costs. The ticket must also be paid by studenti.unibo.it Italian citizens. You must pay before you see the specialist. Check whether your insurance company also refunds these costs.

26 27 Medical urgencies SAP - Psychological support You can call an ambulance dialing 118 (available www.unibo.it/PsychologicalSupport 24h including Holydays). SAP is a free psychological support service run by If necessary you may also go to the Pronto Soccorso the University of Bologna. Contact the service for (Emergency Room): an appointment with specialists to help you identify At the end of the and analyse the reasons underlying any distress. Ospedale Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Department of Psychology Via Albertoni 15 | Bologna Viale Berti Pichat 5 | 40126 Bologna exchange period Tel. 051 2091832 Ospedale Maggiore Opening hours: Largo Nigrisoli 2 | Bologna Monday to Friday, 9.30 - 12.30

For Emergencies during the nights or on weekends Service for students with disabilities and with call the Guardia Medica: Tel. 051 3131 (from 20.00 specific learning disorders to 8.00 or from Saturdays at 10.00 till Mondays at It is a support service responding to the needs 8.00). of students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (in Italian DSA). It mainly provides For urgent dental treatment: guidance for incoming students and graduates, as Ambulatorio di Odontoiatria e Stomatologia well as support throughout the study programmes, “Beretta” at Ospedale Maggiore, Largo B. Nigrisoli aiming to identify and plan the support required 2, Bologna. for every student to successfully complete their There is a limited number of places for emergencies. studies. To be attended you have to take the number at 7.30 www.unibo.it/disabledstudents from Mondays to Saturdays. Services for disabled dtudents and students with Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 13.30; specific learning disorders Saturday, 8.30 - 12.00; Holidays, 8.00 - 13.00 Via Belle Arti 42 | 40126 Bologna Tel. 051 3172721 (Monday to Friday 12.00 - 13.00) Tel. 051 2095941 - 42 (disabilities) Tel. 051 2095943 (dyslexia) [email protected] [email protected]

28 29 Check-out Transcript of Records

Before leaving, after sitting the exams planned, When you leave, you receive the Certificate of The Transcript of Records is issued at the end of These tables allow the universities of the European you must go to the Exchange Students Desk and Departure, confirming the start and end dates your exchange period both in Italian and in English. Area, which have adopted the ECTS Check- out. of your exchange period, which you shall give to It contains your personal data, your arrival and system, to convert Italian grades into local grades. You must Check-out in person. You cannot send a your university. If you have specific forms from departure dates, the list of exams and internships friend to do it for you! On Check-out you register your home university to confirm your exchange you have done, with the date of the exam, the The ECTS scale and relative tables cannot be used your departure and check, together with the staff, period duration, bring them with you to get them credits (CFU and ECTS) and the grades obtained. to convert grades by non-European universities if all the exams and internships are recorded. If all filled in. which have not adopted the ECTS system. exams and internships have been recorded correctly, The grades are expressed in the Italian scale out of the digital Transcript of Records is sent immediately Important: the end date of your exchange period thirty and are converted into the ECTS scale. Please The Transcript is issued in digital format, provided to your home university by e-mail. corresponds to the Check-out date! remember that the “Idoneo”/”Pass” can never be with digital signature and stamp, in compliance with transformed into a numerical grade. EU Regulation 910/2014 on electronic identification In case any grades are missing, the Exchange Find out promptly about any rules that your and trust services for electronic transactions in Students Desk staff takes care of completing the university or the institute funding your mobility The Transcript also contains an explanation of the European Single Market (eIDAS) and, according recordings and will send the Transcript of Records applies to calculate the amount of your scholarship Italian grading system and provides the “ECTS to Italian law, has the same legal value as the to your home university later; therefore, you must and bear this in mind for the Check-out date. grading tables”. traditional paper Transcript. Check-out even if not all the grades have been The Check-out, formally closes your exchange recorded yet. period and you cannot sit any more exams or participate in other teaching activities. When the Transcript of Records is ready, you can also download it directly from your personal homepage on AlmaRM. To avoid any delays, check regularly through AlmaRM that the exams you have sat have been recorded and, if any grades are missing, contact the professors before leaving.

Important: do not forget to return the books borrowed from the libraries, before checking-out otherwise you will not be issued the Transcript of Records.

30 31 Other mobility International programmes Relations Offices

The University of Bologna takes part in some special Erasmus+ for Trainsheep (Mobility for Traineeships) Visiting Students (First and Second Cycle) International Relations Offices mobility programmes which may provide students Students spending an exchange period at the First and Second Cycle students, spending an Contact the International Relations Offices of with tailored services and may be subject to special University of Bologna to carry out an internship exchange period at the University of Bologna as the different subject areas (areas/ambiti), for rules. within the Erasmus+ for Traineeship programme, Visiting Students, need to be accepted by a professor information on the organization of educational need to be accepted by a professor who will tutor who will tutor their activities. They are hosted in activities: Learning Agreement, teaching calendars, Erasmus+ ICM (Mobility outside Europe) and their activities. They are hosted in the Departments. Departments. To be hosted as Visiting student you course timetables, exams and exam sessions. Mobility CONFAP-ITALY (MCI Brazil) shall: obtain an invitation letter signed by the tutoring Identify the offices of your interest based on the If you are an exchange student within these The document required to start the mobility professor; upon receipt of the Acceptance message, subject area of the educational activities you carry programmes, please pay attention to all the programme is the Learning Agreement for complete your online registration (see Registering, out at the University of Bologna. instructions given by your programme coordinator. Traineeship (LAT). page 7); on arrival, Check-in at the Exchange Students For more details and possible updates: For further information: The LAT is the work plan agreed upon by you, your Desk (see Check-in, page 14). www.unibo.it/exchangestudentscontacts university and the tutoring professor at University of Erasmus+ ICM (Mobility outside Europe) Bologna, who invited you and will tutor you activity. It is advisable to agree your work plan with the Agriculture Via Filippo Re 4 | 40126 Bologna In order to carry out the traineeship you shall: ask tutoring professor in advance. As a Visiting Student [email protected] Students coming from Eastern neighbouring Coun- the form to your home university and fill it; get it you are not allowed to sit exams and gain credits. tries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldo- signed by your university and the tutoring professor At the Check-out (see Check-out, page 30) you Economics and Management va, Ukraine), Russia, Asia, Australia and New Zea- at the University of Bologna; send the LAT to the only get your Certificate of Departure. If you need [email protected] land, USA and Canada: Exchange Students Desk via email: incoming.diri@ a certification of your activities, this is issued by Tel. +39 051 2088480 I [email protected] unibo.it; upon receipt of the Acceptance message, the tutoring professor on headed paper or on forms Education Students coming from Africa, Latin America, complete your online registration (see Registering, provided by your home university. [email protected] Southern neighbouring Countries (Algeria, Egypt, page 7); on arrival, Check-in at the Exchange These rules do not apply to Visiting Third Cycle Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Students Desk (see Check-in, page 14). Students (Visiting PhD). Engineering and Architecture Israel, Palestine) and Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and [email protected] Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia): As an exchange student for Traineeships you are not Specific Agreements Tel. +39 051 2088103 I [email protected] allowed to sit exams and gain credits. At the Check- Departments can sign agreements providing Foreign Languages and Literature, out (see Check-out, page 30) you only get your students’ mobility. If you are an exchange student Interpreting and Translation Mobility CONFAP-ITALY (MCI Brazil) Certificate of Departure. Your internship is certified within a Specific Agreement, you are only allowed [email protected] Via Filippo Re, 4 I 40126 Bologna by the professor tutoring your activities by filling in to sit exams at the Department hosting you. Pay [email protected] the appropriate sections of the Learning Agreement attention and choose correctly the course units Humanities for Traineeships (LAT). when filling in your Learning Agreement and Study [email protected] Plan.

32 33 Law [email protected]

Medicine [email protected]

Pharmacy and [email protected]

Political Sciences [email protected]

Psychology [email protected]

Sciences [email protected]

Sociology [email protected]

Sport Sciences [email protected]

Statistics [email protected]

Veterinary Medicine [email protected]

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