Alias careers

The Alias Career established in 2013 (minutes no. 7/2013, meeting of the Academic Senate of 6 May 2013), aims to provide students of the University of Padova with guarantees of respect, dignity and privacy, implementing protection measures for those who need to use, within the University, a name of "election" different from the registry name, as an expression of one's gender self-determination. 

The request for activation of the Alias Career can be submitted by people enrolled in bachelor's, master's, single-cycle master's degree courses and all post-graduate training courses of the University of Padova. In May 2022, the University approved new guidelines for the activation of the Alias Career, with a view to simplifying the procedure and protecting the confidentiality of transgender applicants.
Alias Careers Guidelines

Activation procedures

To activate an Alias career, you must send an email to alias.studenti@unipd.it:

• Alias Career activation request form;
• recognition document;
• a passport photo

Activating the Alias Career

Upon receipt of the request, a confidentiality agreement is drawn up between the applicant and the Rector, which specifies all the obligations and responsibilities deriving from the employment – exclusively within the University – of the Alias Career, in parallel with the original one.

Once the agreement has been signed by both parties, the Student Careers Office takes care of the creation of the Alias Career, through the assignment of new provisional personal data chosen by the applicant, transitory and non-consolidable.

The University provides for the issuance with new details of the e-mail account and the university badge, which are valid exclusively for internal career acts such as, by way of example:

• enrolment/booking for university exams, according to IT methods with the use of the Uniweb university portal;
• carrying out the exams, as well as their registration in the event of passing;
• access to the University's premises such as lecture halls, libraries, study rooms, canteens, etc.

The Alias Career will in any case be inseparably associated with the original one, already activated at the campus of enrolment, and referred to the personal data of the applicant.

This Alias Career will coexist with the original one as long as the actual career lasts, except for requests for interruption, or until any final judgment of correction of gender assignment, issued by the competent judicial authority.

The Student Careers Office undertakes to make periodic updates related to the Alias Career, periodically recording them also in the official career (approximately within the first week of each month), so that the latter is always updated and usable externally.

In the event that the competent judicial authority authorizes the correction of gender assignment, the gender change will have effect on the applicant's actual career and, consequently, the Alias Career will be closed.

For further information email: alias.studenti@unipd.it