Academic calendar and key dates

ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25

Academic Year Start: Tuesday October 1, 2024

Start of Teaching Activities: Monday, September 30, 2024

For organizational and teaching effectiveness reasons, the relevant Teaching Structures may:

  • Anticipate the start of teaching activities to Monday, September 23, 2024, with notice given on their website by August 27, 2024.
  • Postpone the start of teaching activities, with notice given on their website by Monday, September 16, 2024.

Suspension of Teaching Activities:

  • All Saints' Day: Friday, November 1, 2024
  • Christmas Holidays: from Saturday, December 21, 2024 to Monday, January 6, 2025
  • Easter Holidays: from Friday, April 18, 2025 to Tuesday, April 22, 2025
  • Liberation Day: Friday, April 25, 2025
  • Labour Day: Thursday, May 1, 2025
  • Giustinianea Celebration: Friday, May 2, 2025
  • Italian Republic Day: Monday, June 2, 2025
  • Summer Holidays: from Monday, August 4, 2025 to Saturday, August 16, 2025
  • Feast of the Patron Saint in the provincial capitals where teaching activities are held
  • Patron Saint of Padua: Friday, June 13, 2025

LECTURES AND EXAM SESSIONS

Trimesters and semesters

Classes are organised either in semesters or in trimesters, depending on regulations that applies to the specific class. Every single class can begin/end in different dates within common intervals
These are the common scheduled dates:

Trimester system
First trimester:
Classes: 30 September 2024 to 30 November 2024
Winter exam session: 2 December 2024 to 21 December 2024

Second trimester:
Classes: 7 January 2025 to 15 March 2025
Spring exam session: 17 March 2025 to 5 April 2025

Third trimester:
Classes: 7 April 2025 to 14 June 2025
Summer exam session: 16 June 2025 to 19 July 2025

Extra exam session: 18 August 2025 to 20 September 2025
Exam session reserved to students who will graduate by 13 December 2025: 1 October - 22 November 2025

Semester system
First semester:
Classes: 30September 2024 to 18 January 2025
Winter exam session: 20 January 2025 to 22 February 2025

Second semester
Classes: 24 February 2025 to 14 June 2025
Summer exam session: 16 June 2025 to 19 July 2025

Extra exam session: 18 August 2025 to 20 September 2025
Exam session reserved to students who will graduate by 13 December 2025: 1 October - 22 November 2025

You can consult the timetable of lectures and the occupancy of the university's teaching rooms at www.gestionedidattica.unipd.it/PortaleStudenti.