Unipd 4 Ukraine

The Help Ukraine Project has been structured in the awareness that future students from Ukraine interested in enrolling at the University of Padova, are bearers of needs and requirements and that therefore the reception and inclusion, to be truly such and complete, must be able to provide assistance (support) in different areas. To this end, a detailed questionnaire (Welcome Form) has been created that students will have to fill out in advance, thus allowing the Group to understand and provide assistance in all possible organizational needs.

The topics involved, and therefore the matching, are carried out in the following areas: Welcome, Books, Teaching, Housing, Financial. 

Interested students can be involved in the project in the following way: 

Are you a Ukrainian student who has just arrived or are you thinking of reaching Padova? Do you know Ukrainian students who would like to enrol at our University? Write to: welcome.gsvpadova.helpukraine@gmail.com

Donors are involved in the project according to the following scheme: 

Are you a Unipd student and would like to donate your old books to a student arriving from Ukraine? Are you a professor and would like to donate some copies of your new book to Ukrainian students? Write to: books.gsvpadova.helpukraine@gmail.com

Are you a student and would you be available to teach Italian or English to students arriving from Ukraine? Are you a language lecturer and would like to spend a few hours teaching Italian or English to Ukrainian students? Write to: teaching.gsvpadova.helpukraine@gmail.com

Do you know someone willing to host or share an apartment in Padova, or surrounding areas, with students arriving from Ukraine? Write to: housing.gsvpadova.helpukraine@gmail.com

Contacts

Lecturer in charge of the Help Ukraine Project: Alessandro Di Paolo alessandro.dipaolo@unipd.it
GSV student representatives: Sabrina Di Lione and Elena Battagliarin
Email: info.gsvpadova.helpukraine@gmail.com
Instagram: gsvpadova.helpukraine
Fb: GSV Padova Help Ukraine

The university awards a maximum of 50 scholarships to support students residing in Ukraine who intend to enroll in single courses for the A.Y. 2021/22.

Amount of the scholarship: € 3,100 (gross recipient) and exemption from the enrolment fee for single courses

Admission requirements: in order to participate in the selection procedures, under penalty of exclusion, it is necessary to:

1. be Ukrainian citizens whose family unit does not reside in Italy and who have no personal or family income in Italy;
2. have completed the enrolment in at least one single course for the A.Y. 2021/22, with the payment of the revenue stamp worth 16 euros;
3. present appropriate documentation certifying the status of international protection (refugee or subsidiary protection) or special protection or other form of temporary protection

How to apply: the application for enrolment in at least a single course must be submitted from 11 April 2022 and by 27 May 2022, attaching appropriate self-declaration of international protection status, even temporary.

Allocation criteria: the benefit is provided to those who meet the requirements set out in this announcement from the date of publication of the call until funds are exhausted.

Assignment results: communicated on an ongoing basis based on the time of confirmation of enrolments in individual courses

More information is available in the attached announcement.

Info: Student Careers Office – Front Office Sector - email: unipd4ukraine@unipd.it

The university offers a maximum of 75 scholarships to international students who are in danger or have lost the opportunity to access university studies following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and who wish to attend a course of study at the University.

Amount of the scholarship: € 6,200 per year (gross recipient) + tuition fee waiver. The first instalment corresponding to the regional tax for the right to study and the revenue stamp remains due.

Admission requirements: in order to participate in the selection procedures, under penalty of exclusion, it is necessary to:

1. have Ukrainian nationality or be third-country nationals or stateless persons who enjoyed international protection or equivalent protection in Ukraine before 24 February 2022;
2. be resident in Ukraine or be Ukrainian citizens residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022 who are beneficiaries of temporary protection;
3. be in possession of a secondary school diploma (for those who intend to enroll in a first-cycle/Bachelor's degree course or a single-cycle master's degree) or a degree (for those who intend to enroll in a second-cycle/Master's degree course) not obtained in Italy and valid for access to the Italian university system
4. apply for one or more degree programmes according to the procedures and within the deadlines set for each degree course
   or
   have been found to be suitable in the ordinary selection already announced for open-access degree programmes and local programming. 

How to apply: All students who meet the requirements listed are automatically included in the selection. Neither the completion of a specific application nor the submission of additional documentation with respect to the documents required to apply for the chosen degree course are required.

Award criteria: Scholarships are awarded on the basis of criteria of academic merit, language proficiency and motivation. In the event of a tie, preference will be given to female and younger candidates.

Results of the award: The results of the selection and assignment of the scholarships will be published on the University website starting from 10 June 2022.

Acceptance: Beneficiaries will receive a specific communication from the Admissions and Welcome department of the Global Engagement Office indicating how and when to accept the financial benefit. Further requirements are indicated in the call for applications.

Dispensing Methods and Maintenance Requirements: The scholarship will be disbursed by bank transfer in two (2) equal installments. Further conditions for the disbursement of the first and second instalments are outlined in the call for applications.

Revocation: in the event of failure to meet the merit requirements required for the maintenance of the scholarship within the deadline, the disbursement of the scholarship will be interrupted.

More information is available in the attached announcement.

Info: Global Engagement Office – Admissions & Welcome Sector – email: unipd4ukraine@unipd.it

The Board of Directors, following the motion of solidarity with the Ukrainian people approved by the Academic Senate, approved urgent and extraordinary interventions for students residing in Ukraine currently enrolled for the academic year 2021/2022. Among the interventions is the exemption from the payment of the third installment of the all-inclusive contribution.

Extraordinary interventions for Russian and Belarusian students are also included in the Unipd plan; For them, the payment of the third instalment is expected to be postponed to 30 June 2022. Should the situation of international crisis persist beyond this date, there is the possibility, upon request, of suspension of payment with the abolition of late payment delays in such a way as to allow the normal continuation of the course of study, it being understood that in order to obtain the qualification it is mandatory to regularize the contribution situation.

Thanks to the Erasmus+ syllabus and the "European Solidarity Corps" initiative, all people from the Ukrainian education system can freely benefit from the open access section of the Online Language Support (OLS) online platform launched from 1 July 2022. This allows access to basic online language training in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Details at https://academy.europa.eu/courses/learn-italian-with-ols/view/