DOUBLE DEGREE PROGRAMMES GUIDE FOR INCOMING STUDENTS

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DOUBLE DEGREE PROGRAMMES

GUIDE FOR INCOMING STUDENTS

Dear student,

This guide is to provide you with useful administrative information regarding your Double Degree Programme at the University of Trento.

You shall carefully read this guide as well as the footnotes. After your arrival in Trento, you shall sign it and hand it in to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at this e-mail address

[email protected].

All suggestions and advice from you to improve this guide will be appreciated. A virtual copy of this guide1 is available on the following link under the heading “ISCRIZIONI”:

http://portale.unitn.it/ateneo/portalpage.do?channelId=-17357&channel2Id=-17386&content_OID=37428&page=/jsp/editorial/editorial.jsp&programId=37429

CONTENTS:

1. WHO DOES WHAT? ... 2

2. ENROLMENT ... 6

3. STAY PERMIT - RESIDENCE CARD ... 7

4. DIDACTICS ... 7

5. HEALTH INSURANCE ... 8

6. CIAL - INTERFACULTY LANGUAGE CENTRE ... 9

8. OPERA UNIVERSITARIA’S SERVICES ... 9

9. END OF YOUR STAY IN TRENTO ... 10

10. GRADUATION PROCEDURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO ... 10

11. FURTHER INFORMATION ... 11

1_{Updated on March 8}th_2010.

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1. WHO DOES WHAT?

During your stay in Trento, you will get in touch at first with three offices. They manage different areas of the Double Degree Programme. In particular:

WELCOME OFFICE ([email protected])

Accommodation (in coordination with Opera Universitaria/University Guild). Remember that the

reservation has to be done according to the information given via email by the Welcome Office, which will provide you with the booking confirmation, too

Lunch ticket (in coordination with Opera Universitaria/University Guild)

Library card

Visa procedure (for non-EU students)

Stay permit or residence card

Codice fiscale (personal tax code)

Public travel cards

Italian language conversations

Cultural events and free time activities

Welcome Office

Molino Vittoria, via Verdi 6 III Floor

Ph. +39/0461/883242-3240-3243

Fax. +39/0461/883222 Opening time:

MON - FRI from 10.00 a.m. to noon

DOUBLE DEGREE PROGRAMMES AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OFFICE

([email protected])

Support for enrolment procedures

Support for CIAL enrolment procedures

Intermediation with your academic supervisors of the University of Trento

Intermediation with admission offices for your study plans

Interaction with the International Office of your home university for the necessary documents

Issuing of the certificates of participation in the double degree programme

France, Spain Irma Aste tel. +39/0461/883233 e-mail: [email protected] Austria, Germany Valentina Marchegiani tel. +39/0461/883231 e-mail: [email protected]

Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office

Reference person for USA, China and

Portugal

Flavia Evandri (office Head) Molino Vittoria, via Verdi 6 IV floor - loft

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MON - WED - FRI from 10.00 a.m. to noon; TUE from 03.00 to 04.00 p.m.

If you cannot attend the above-mentioned office hours, you can make an appointment with your reference person.

The Head of the Office can meet you only upon appointment. ADMISSION OFFICE2

Enrolment

Career management

Graduation procedures for both bachelor (laurea triennale) and master (laurea specialistica) degrees

Office Hours:

MON - WED – THU - FRI from 10.00 a.m. to noon. TUESDAYS from 02.30 p.m. to 04.00 p.m.

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Admission Office in Italian is Presidio Didattico

ADMISSION OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER

FAX E-MAIL ADDRESS

Economics Via Inama, 5 +39 0461 882165/ 2167/2342 +39 0461 882169 [email protected] Engineering Loc. Mesiano, 77 +39 0461 881980/ 1972/1979 +39 0461 881972 [email protected]

Law and Sociology

Via Inama, 5

+39 0461 883127/ 2175/2128/3130/ 2196

+39 0461 882184 [email protected]

Arts, Humanities and Philosophy

Via S. Croce, 65

+39 0461 882183/ 2171/2984

+39 0461 882982 [email protected]

Mathematics, Phisics and Natural Science

Via Sommarive, 14/Povo

+39 0461 881665 +39 0461 881663 [email protected]

Cognitive Science

Corso Bettini, 84 - Rovereto

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The academic supervisor for the Double Degree Programme in your faculty shall be contacted for any information about didactics3. ACADEMIC SUPERVISORS

GERMANY FRANCE SPAIN PORTUGAL AND

CHINA

USA Economics Prof. Luciano Pilati

tel. ++39/0461/882205 e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Andrea Bonoldi tel. ++39/0461/882233 e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Alessandro Rossi tel. ++39/0461/882101 e-mail: [email protected] Prof. Giuseppe Folloni tel. ++39/0461/882226 e-mail: giuseppe.folloni@ unitn.it Dr. Marco Bee Tel. ++39/0461/882296 e-mail: [email protected]

Law Prof.ssa Luisa Antoniolli

tel: ++39/0461/883894 e-mail: [email protected] Engineering Prof.ssa Roberta

Springhetti (for Civil Engineering)

tel: ++39/0461/882526 e-mail:

[email protected] tn.it

Prof. Marco Tubino (for Environmental Engineering) tel. +39 0461 882662 e-mail:

[email protected]

Prof. Riccardo Zandonini tel. +39 0461 882530 e-mail: riccardo.zandonini@unitn. it Prof. Mariolino De Cecco Tel. +39 0461 882512 Email: mariolino.dececco @unitn.it Prof. Riccardo Zandonini tel. +39 0461 882530 e-mail: riccardo.zandonini @unitn.it Arts, Humanities

Prof. Fabrizio Cambi tel. +39/0461/881724

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and

Philosophy

e-mail:

[email protected]

Science Dott. Leonardo Ricci (for

Physics)

tel. +39/0461/882045 e-mail:

[email protected] Prof. Roberto Pignatelli (for Mathematics) tel. +39/0461/88 1638 e-mail: [email protected] Prof. Alberto Montresor tel. +39/0461/883972 email: alberto.montresor @unitn.it Cognitive Science

Prof. Remo Job tel. +39/0464/483540 e-mail: [email protected]

Sociology Prof. Antonio Scaglia

tel. +39/0461/881309 e-mail: [email protected] Prof. Salvatore Abbruzzese tel. +39/0461/ 88 1424 e-mail: salvatore.abbruzzese@u nitn.it Prof. Antonio Scaglia tel. +39/0461/881309 e-mail: antonio.scaglia@u nitn.it

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2. ENROLMENT

Once you arrive in Trento, you will make the enrolment by filling in the form you will get from the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements office at the Welcome Day.

The form has then to be handed in to the Admission Office of your Faculty, together with:

- Receipt testifying the payment of tassa per il diritto allo studio (TDS) and revenue stamp4

- #1 photo (passport format)

- #1 photocopy of your ID document or passport

- Official copy of the academic transcripts (Home University)5

Just after enrolment, you will be provided with both the username and the Esse3 password (strictly personal data!) in order to:

-access the Esse3 personal web page (you might visualize and change personal data, print official certificates, sign in for examination sessions…)

-access the personal unitn - web mail box.

The Welcome Office will provide you with a short guide describing the Esse3 system.

The Admission Office of your faculty also provides each student with the exams’ mark book. Each Admission Office follows its own procedure and schedule. Passed exams will be recorded on the exams’ mark book. Professors will write the name of the exam, the date when the exam is done and her/his signature.

NOTE:

- If your classes start in the second semester, you can enrol within March 31st.

- If you are going to stay in Trento for three or more semesters according to the agreements ruling your programme, you must also pay the tassa per il diritto allo studio (TDS) also for the second academic year. Also in this case, the payment deadline must be respected. The latter is yearly defined by Divisione Gestione Studenti. If you plan not to be in Trento by the time enrolments commence, you can send the properly completed application form via mail, attaching the payment receipt.

The TDS has to be paid for each a.y. during which you are doing didactical activities (the last session to give exams avoiding the payment of this fee is September). At the end of your stay in Trento, you can decide to graduate in the ongoing academic year (i.e. at the latest by March of the a.y. following your last exams session), you should present the form “domanda di attesa di laurea”, in order to avoid the re-payment of the TDS to renew the enrolment and you can give exams till December 28th.

Should you miss the deadline for the payment of enrolment or its renewal, you will have to pay a penalty fee.

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The revenue stamp can be bought at any newsagent’s and costs € 14.62. The stamp shall be stuck on the application form. Students enrolling in the academic year 2010/2011 can alternatively pay € 142.62 (the

amount includes both tassa per il diritto allo studio of € 128.00 and the revenue stamp of €14.62) at your

bank branch or at the counter of the Admission Office of your faculty, but only with credit or Debit card.

5_{ATTENTION: If students cannot present the official transcripts at the time of their enrolment, they must provide}

the official record within 30 days from their arrival in Trento. The documents are necessary in order to insert students in the Esse3 database, that is the career management system.

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3. STAY PERMIT - RESIDENCE CARD

EU students who stay in Trento for more than 90 consecutive days must register at the Municipality of Trento.

Non-EU students must apply for their stay permit.

Both student categories will be supported by the Welcome Office. For further details please click on the following link:

http://portale.unitn.it/ateneo/portalpage.do?channelId=-17359&channel2Id=-17428&activeLanguage=it

4. DIDACTICS

You have to refer to the academic supervisor of your specific double degree programme who will supervise you during your study period in Trento, in accordance with the directives given by the supervisor in your Home university.

The supervisor will help you in the course selection. The definitive version of your study plan has to be

submitted to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office within October 10th

(if you arrive in the first semester) or May 15th (if you arrive in the second semester).

The study plan has to be submitted on a blank sheet and signed by the student as well as by your supervisor. Titles of the courses as well as credits must also be listed on the sheet. Within the following 30 days, the Esse3 system will be updated with your study plan.

Any changes in your study plan must be arranged with your tutor and have to be promptly communicated to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office. This is to officially update your study plan on the Esse3 system. Students who do not communicate the change will not be allowed to take the exam that is not listed on the official version of the study plan.

The list of available courses can be found in the student’s guidebook of each faculty or on the following web pages:

Economics: http://portale.unitn.it/economia/portalpage.do?channelId=-12257 Law: http://portale.unitn.it/giurisprudenza/portalpage.do?channelId=-12401 Engineering: http://portale.unitn.it/ingegneria/portalpage.do?channelId=-12545

Humanities and Philosophy: http://portale.unitn.it/lettere/portalpage.do?channelId=-12689 Cognitive science: http://portale.unitn.it/cogsci/portalpage.do?channelId=-12977

Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences:

http://portale.unitn.it/scienze/portalpage.do?channelId=-12833

Sociology: http://portale.unitn.it/sociologia/portalpage.do?channelId=-13121 FOR THE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY ONLY:

Your study plan must be submitted to Ufficio Supporto alla Didattica di Sociologia (Contact Dr. Emanuela Merisio or Dr. Katia Salvadori). The office will send a copy to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office.

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For Sociology, the office that deals with administrative procedures concerning your study plans is the following: l’Ufficio Supporto alla Didattica di Sociologia (Reference: Emanuela Merisio or Katia Salvadori). The Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office is just involved with the communication of that information provided by students.

The study plan must be compiled on the form provided by the faculty. It has to be signed by both the student and his/her supervisor. Titles of the courses as well as credits must also be listed on the form. Within the following 30 days, the Esse3 system will be updated with your study plan.

Any change in your study plan must be arranged with your tutor and to be promptly communicated to either the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office or Ufficio Supporto alla Didattica (Dr. Emanuela Merisio or Dr. Katia Salvadori). This is to officially update your study plan on the Esse3 system. Students who do not communicate the change will not be allowed to take the exam that is not listed on the official version of the study plan.

FOR THE STUDENTS OF THE KU EICHSTÄTT-INGOLSTADT ONLY:

The Bilateral Commission set specific rules for these students. These rules follow here below:

a) Students must submit the documentation concerning the exams taken in Germany in occasion of the first informative meeting with the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office.

b) Fourteen days prior to the beginning of lessons, incoming students from KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt University must provide a draft of their study plan here in Trento.

c) The draft will be discussed in occasion of a further meeting with the academic supervisors and Dr. Emanuela Merisio or Dr. Katia Salvadori (Ufficio Supporto alla Didattica di Sociologia) d) After this meeting and after the approval of the study plans by the supervisors, Dr. Emanuela

Merisio or Dr. Katia Salvadori will send the original of the study plan to the Admission Office of Sociology and a copy to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office.

e) If a study plan does not conform to the general rule, the student at issue will be contacted by the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office or by Dr. Emanuela Merisio/Katia Salvadori to revise and change it. If the student does not find valid alternatives, then the study plan will be examined by the Bilateral Commission.

f) Requests for any change of your study plan must be promptly communicated to Dr Emanuela Merisio/Katia Salvadori or to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office. Changes must be approved by the Bilateral Commission.

Study plans shall not be considered as changed if students have not previously been informed by the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office.

5. HEALTH INSURANCE

The University of Trento covers double degree students only in case of hospitalization due to an injury during the didactic activities and covers the costs resulting from damages or accidents to third parties inside the University buildings.

EU students have to provide themselves with the European sanitary card BEFORE leaving their country or get a private insurance covering all risks.

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6. CIAL - INTERFACULTY LANGUAGE CENTRE

The University of Trento organizes extensive and intensive Italian language courses for exchange students.

The CIAL - Interfaculty Language Centre encourages instrumental learning, the practice and study of Italian and of other foreign languages (for example Chinese, French, English, Spanish, German), through courses held by teachers and through facilities for self-learning (self-access room and media library).

The attendance of Italian language courses for exchange students is free for only one course for

each level. For further information about pre-enrolment and about the Italian online courses please

see:

Exchange students have to pay 50 euro if:

— s/he enrols for the second time in a course s/he has not passed before or to a course in which s/he

was absent more than 25% of the lessons;

— s/he wants to attend other language courses offered by CIAL, except if the courses are required by

the study plan chosen by the student during his/her study period in Trento.

Besides this course offering, the University of Trento also organizes specialized language courses. At the current, the only course is ITALIANO GIURIDICO.

For further information: http://portale.unitn.it/cial.htm

7. PART- TIME STUDENTS’ COLLABORATION (150 HOURS)

In accordance to a contract called “Collaborazioni studenti /150 ore” (it in fact implies a part-time collaboration lasting 150 hours, at the most), students can supportively work for the university. On payment, students can work in the facilities of the University of Trento or in those owned by Opera Universitaria. Application deadlines are generally announced in September. Also students involved with the Double Degree Programme can apply.

For further information:

8. OPERA UNIVERSITARIA’S SERVICES

Opera Universitaria support students and their right to study and be accommodated in the following ways:

- meal service (university canteens); - accommodation service;

- cultural activities;

- information and advisory service; - psychological counselling;

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- rent a bike (see below)

For further information: http://www.operauni.tn.it/chi_siamo/mission.htm

Psychological Counselling: It gives the possibility to have a friendly discussion about everyday

difficulties. It is a free service for students who need support for their personal and relational difficulties.

To make an appointment, you can contact the number +39 0464 483592 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from noon to 01.00 p.m. (an operator will answer you).

Rent a bike: 250 bikes are at students’ disposal. It is a traditional means of transport, but it is

functional and ecological. It also allows students to easily move around the city and in the surrounding area.

Students have to give a 60 Euros deposit and pay a small monthly amount for routine maintenance. For further information and to download the application form:

http://www.operauni.tn.it/servizi/prestabici.htm

9. END OF YOUR STAY IN TRENTO

Before going back to your home University, you have to stop by the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office in order to:

1. return a copy of your exams’ mark book

2. communicate any possible new address in your home country

3. get support in choosing the enrolment renewal or the “domanda di attesa di laurea”.

NOTE: You must submit a copy of your exams’ mark book to the Admission Office of the faculty in which you enrolled.

Please remember to promptly communicate to the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office any possible change of address. It is actually a necessary condition to receive all communications from the office.

10. GRADUATION PROCEDURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO

Independently from where the final thesis is prepared, students involved in any Double Degree Programme must apply for their graduation at the Admission Office of their faculty, respecting the time-limits scheduled by it.

The calendar indicating the graduation sessions can be checked on the faculties’ web sites.

In order to submit the application for graduation, a revenue stamp must be stuck on the application forms. If the application occurs a year after the TDS for the enrolment was paid, the TDS must be paid again. Students who do not respect the payment deadline will have to pay a penalty fee.

If the dissertation is planned to take place in Trento, the proclamation ceremony might occur on a different date from the one when the thesis project is discussed.

For information about both dissertation and proclamation dates, students have to directly consult Segreteria di Presidenza (Deanship’s Office) of their Faculty.

For further information, check the website http://portale.unitn.it/pos/dl.htm, under the heading “esame finale”.

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We remind you that your presence at the proclamation ceremony is compulsory even though you graduate at the partner University.

11. FURTHER INFORMATION

You are warmly invited to consult the University of Trento web page, in particular the section devoted to double degree programmes, which is constantly updated:

Three weeks after your arrival you have to provide the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office with the following information:

- e-mail address used in Trento; - address in Trento;

- mobile telephone number used during your stay in Italy.

In this way, you will have the possibility to be contacted immediately, if necessary.

The original copy of this signed guide will be stored in the archives of the Double Degree Programmes and International Agreements Office. You can ask for a copy.

Trento, (please write the date)

SIGNATURE (I have read and understood the document)