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UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO General ECTS-Guide European Community Course Credit Transfer System Academic Year 2003/2004 dffd 3 CONTENTS Page 1. ECTS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO 3 a) What is ECTS? 3 b) How does ECTS work? 3 c) Credit Allocation 3 d) ECTS Students 3 e) Participating Institutions 4 2. THE ITALIAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM 8 Introduction and Description 8 I) University Entry 8 II) Grading System 8 III) Exams at Bergamo University 9 IV) Tutoring 9 3. THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO 10 a) The City of Bergamo 10 b) The University 10 I) Background 10 II) Faculties and Degrees Awarded 10 III) Location 11 IV) Enrolment 11 V) Library Services 12 VI) Computer Centre 12 VII) Language Centre 13 VIII) Services for the Disabled 14 IX) Work Placement Centre 14 X) Students' Office (Segreteria Studenti) 15 XI) ISU and Canteen 15 XII) Students' Associations 16 c) International Relations Office 17 d) Academic Calendar 2003 - 2004 17 e) Important Points to Remember 18 f) Accommodation 19 g) Residency Permits 19 h) Health Services and Insurance 20 i) Courses of Italian Language and Culture 20 4. OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION 21 a) Cost of living 21 b) Miscellaneous 22 c) Application Form 23 d) Learning Agreement 23 e) Transcript of Records 23 1. ECTS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO This Handbook describes the University of Bergamo and the courses to help future ECTS students plan their study programme. a) What is ECTS? ECTS, the European Community Course Credit Transfer System, is a pilot project within the ERASMUS Programme (European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students). One of the main aims of the ERASMUS Programme is to promote academic recognition of studies within the European Community and between EC-member states and EFTA countries so that students can take part of their courses abroad. b) How does ECTS work? ECTS was set up on an experimental basis for a maximum of six academic years, from 1989-90 to 1994-95. It has involved 145 higher education institutions, each of them participating with one faculty or department. Starting from 1995-96, other universities - including the University of Bergamo - adopted ECTS, particularly in view of the imminent launch of the SOCRATES Programme, of which ERASMUS forms a part - that regarding universities. ECTS is a decentralised system based on the principle of mutual trust between the participating higher education institutions. The few ECTS regulations on information (on courses available), agreements (between local and host institutions) and the use of credit points (to indicate student workload) help reinforce this idea of mutual trust. Each ECTS faculty describes the courses it offers not only in terms of content but also indicating the credits awarded by each course. c) Credit Allocation ECTS is a credit system based on the student workload undertaken in each course. This includes lectures, practical work and private study, that is, all the work required to take an exam. Sixty credits are given for a year of study, with 30 credits per term or 20 credits for a session (three months). Please note that no special courses are set up for ECTS purposes, but that all courses are mainstream courses offered by the participating institutions, as followed by local students under normal conditions. It is up to the participating institutions to allocate credits for each course, according to their importance. Practical work and optional courses which do not form an integral part of the course of studies do not receive academic credit. Non-credit courses may be mentioned in the academic transcript. Credits are awarded only if the course has been completed and all the required exams have been passed. d) ECTS Students Students participating in ECTS will receive full credit for all academic work carried out at any ECTS-partner institution. They will be able to transfer these academic credits from one participating institution to another on the basis of prior agreement between the institutions involved. Most students participating in ECTS will enrol in a host institution in an EC-member state, study there for a limited period and then return to their home institution. Some may also decide to stay on at the host institution and take a degree there. In both of these cases, students will have to meet the legal and institutional requirements of the country and institution where they take their degree. When the student returns home after successfully completing the study programme previously agreed upon between local and host institutions, their credits will be automatically transferred and they will continue the chosen course of studies at the home institution without any loss of time or credit. If, on the other hand, the student decides to stay at the host institution to take a degree there, they will have to adapt their study plan to the legal, institutional or departmental regulations of the host country, institution or department. In order to 3 participate in ECTS, students must fulfil the conditions of eligibility for an ERASMUS grant, that is: - students must be citizens of one of the EC-Member states or one of the EFTA countries (or recognised by one of these countries as having the status of political refugee or stateless person or permanent resident). EFTA nationals registered as students at an institution in another EFTA country or in an EC-member state are only eligible for mobility grants if they have the right of permanent residency; - the student will not be required to pay tuition fees at the host university, but may, however, be required to continue to pay their normal fees to the home university during the study period abroad; - if the student is already the holder of a national grant for study at their home university, this need not necessarily be discontinued, suspended or reduced while that student is studying in another member state and is receiving an ERASMUS grant; - a study period abroad should not last less than three months or more than one year (only for SOCRATES/ERASMUS students); - first-year students are not eligible for ERASMUS grants. e) Participating ERASMUS Partner Institutions of The University of Bergamo: Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature FRANCE 1. Université de Haute Alsace-Mulhouse 2. Université Stendhal Grenoble III 3. Université Lumière Lyon II 4. Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle 5. Université de Paris XII - Val de Marne GREAT BRITAIN 6. University of Hull 7. University of Leeds 8. University of Manchester 9. University of Reading 10. University of Wales – Swansea GERMANY 11. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 12. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 13. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 14. Ruprecht-Karls Universität – Heidelberg 15. Universität Karlsruhe 16. Universität zu Köln 17. Universität Leipzig 18. Universität Mannheim 19. Ludwig-Maximiliams-Universität München 20. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 21. Universität des Saarlandes - Saarbrücken AUSTRIA 22. Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck 23. Universität Salzburg SPAIN 24. Universidad de Barcelona 25. Universidad de Cadiz 26. Universidad de Extremadura 27. Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28. Universidad de Murcia 29. Universidad de Salamanca 4 30. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela 31. Universidad de Sevilla PORTUGAL 32. Universidad do Porto Partners in projects similar to ERASMUS (without scholarship grants) U.S.A. 33. University of Missouri – Columbia AUSTRALIA 34. University of Technology Sydney The Faculty of Arts and Philosophy FRANCE 1. Université de Perpignan SPAIN 2. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Partners in projects similar to ERASMUS (without scholarship grants) SWITZERLAND 3. Université de Genève U.S.A. 4. University of Missouri – Columbia AUSTRALIA 5. University of Technology Sydney The Faculty of Economics English Language Partners GREAT BRITAIN 1. University of Hull 2. Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College 3. Sheffield Hall University – Sheffield Business School THE NETHERLANDS 4. Universiteit Maastricht 5. Hogeschool InHolland Haarlem 6. Hanzenhogeschool Groningen NORWAY 7. Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim 8. Molde College SWEDEN 9. Växjö University 10. Mälardalens Högskola – Vastera FINLAND 11. Satakunta Polytechnic – Kankaapää 5 CYPRUS 12. University of Cyprus French Language Partners FRANCE 13. Université Jean Moulin Lyon III 14. Ecole Supérieure de Commerce du Havre – Le Havre-Caen 15. Ecole Des Dirigents et Créateurs d’Enterprise – Courbevoie 16. Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Clermont Ferrand 17. Group Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Chambéry Savoie BELGIUM 18. Haute Etudes Commerciales – Liège German Language Partners GERMANY 19. Universität Trier 20. Fachnochschule Osnabrück 21. Fachnochschule Reutlingen 22. Universität Fridericiana Karlsruhe 23. Fachnochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin AUSTRIA 24. Fachnochschulverein Inntal Kufstein (some courses are also in English) Portugese Language Partners PORTUGAL 25. Universidade de Aveiro Spanish Language Partners SPAIN 26. Universidad de Barcelona 27. Universidad de Deusto de San Sebastian 28. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 29. Universidad de La Laguna - Teneriffe Partners in projects similar to ERASMUS (without scholarship grants) U.S.A. 30. University of Missouri – Columbia AUSTRALIA 31. University of Technology Sydney CANADA 32. Ryerson Polytechnic University – Toronto MEXICO 33. Cetys Universidad The Faculty of Engineering English Language Partners GREAT BRITAIN 1. Bolton Institute – Faculty of Technology 2. University of Brighton MALTA 3.