Language courses
The European Commission offers online linguistic support (OLS) on the EU Academy platform for students with an Erasmus+ mobility grant.
The OLS includes a placement test at the beginning of your stay and optional courses before and during your stay.
There are several opportunities that the University of Padua offers to students and Unipd staff to learn or improve foreign languages.
In addition to the many activities and tools offered by the University Language Center - Cla, Unipd also provides courses thanks to the Confucius Institute in Padua and facilitates interlinguistic and intercultural dialogue thanks to the Arqus university alliance, of which it is a member and which organizes the Arqus Cafés, virtual and informal meetings dedicated to students.
University Language Centre
The University Language Centre is responsible for disseminating knowledge of the modern languages taught at the University and of Italian as a foreign language, even for external people; it organizes courses, subsidiary teaching activities, forms of self-study and language knowledge assessments of various types and levels. It guides students but also teachers and university staff in learning and deepening foreign languages.
Communicating and teaching in English for Unipd teachers
At the University Language Centre, enrolment is open for Communicating and teaching in English courses for University lecturers teaching in English. In particular:
- registrations are open until 28 June for the course to be held from 6 to 10 July via Zoom;
- registrations are open until 3 July for the course to be held from 13 to 24 July (first week in presence and second via Zoom).
The CLA - University Language Centre organizes free language courses every year for students who have won (1st and 2nd call) an Erasmus mobility grant.
The Erasmus OUT intensive language courses have a duration of 30 hours and are offered for the following languages: French, English, Portuguese, Spanish and German.
The University Language Centre annually offers Academic English courses to PhD students of the University of Padua of a specific cycle. The courses are free of charge and aimed only at those enrolled in a PhD of the cycles indicated for each academic year.
All information is published on the page: https://cla.unipd.it/en/language-courses/english-for-phd/
As part of the ACLAIM - Academic Language for Iternationalisation and Multilingualism project, the CLA organizes activities in English for University teachers.
The activities are free and designed mainly by professors in charge of courses in English.
In particular, these are:
- Intensive course "Communicating and teaching in English"
- Short courses
- One-to-one "Lecturer Support Service"
- Conversation sessions
Registrations are made online and are open subject to availability.
Detailed information on the type of activities and their deadlines can be found on the CLA page dedicated to the project.
University Language Centre - Didactic Secretariat
via Venezia, 16 (4th floor) – Padova
tel. +39 049 827 6185
didattica.cla@unipd.it
Open to the public: Monday to Friday from 9.30 am to 1 pm
