Important dates

Lessons are organised in two semesters: the Winter term, from September until February and the Spring term, from March until July. You can find more information about the official university holidays and all the other key academic dates on our main website.  The Projects and Mobility Office organises official welcome days at the beginning of each semester.

The academic calendar at the SPGI Department is organized in a two-month period. Some courses (especially 6-credit courses) could start later during the semester (November or April) and end at the end of the semester (January/June) and you will not find them in the timetable right at the beginning of the semester. Some courses (especially 6-credit courses) could start at the beginning of the semester (September/February) and finish before the end of the official period of classes (November/April).

To check the timetable, please look at Educational offer and Web Agenda websites.

  Italian Language Courses

Classes are given mainly in Italian. All incoming students can attend free Italian Language Course at our University Language Centre (CLA).

  Choosing courses

Incoming students are officially enrolled in the department of the University of Padua with which their home universities have signed the Erasmus+ agreement.

Students can choose exams from the entire Catalogue of university courses, also from different departments without restriction, as long as the majority of courses are held in the department in which the student is officially enrolled.

Here you find a complete guide about how to choose courses in our University.

Some degrees are held in other cities besides Padova. For example, the courses from the degree in Economic Law are available to erasmus students, but they take place entirely in Rovigo.

At the SPGI Department, most of the courses offered at Bachelor level are taught in Italian. Professors may allow the use of a vehicular language for the examination.

If you decide to take a course held in Italian:

• ALWAYS check the prerequisites for each course in the syllabus at https://unipd.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/ and if you want to apply to take the exam in a vehicular language please contact the professor in charge of the course after your arrival.
• Students interested in courses belonging to the Bachelor’s degree in SERVIZIO SOCIALE/SOCIAL WORK (EP2893) and to the Master's degree in INNOVAZIONE E SERVIZIO SOCIALE/INNOVATION AND SOCIAL WORK (EP2900) should:
  ● be able to read books and articles in Italian
  ● contact the professor in charge of the course before starting the course to be admitted

1st, 2nd or 3rd year Bachelor students should check the prerequisites of each course in the syllabus at https://unipd.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/ but in principle they can choose courses offered by any Bachelor and Master course EXCEPT the Master in Human Rights and Multi- level Governance.

Please note: MASTER'S COURSES in "HUMAN RIGHTS AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE" can only be chosen by students at an advanced level (University of Limerick Law students can access from the 3rd year, anyone can access from the 4th year).

CORSI INTEGRATI C.I.: To see the results in your final Transcript of records you MUST PASS all the modules. You CANNOT choose to sit/pass only one of the modules composing the C.I. .

IMPORTANT!
Bachelor students who intend to enroll in a Master's degree course in Padua in the future (as Degree Seekers) may not be able to do so if they have taken courses from that Master's degree course during their Erasmus mobility!

  Exams

Attendance at lessons is not compulsory.  Students are not required to enroll in classes, but they must sign for exams. Each course generally has two appelli (exam dates) in each exam session. Lists usually open about two weeks before the exam and close a couple of days before. It is important to enrol correctly on Uniweb, so that all your results can be registered in your booklet and a correct transcript of records can be made available at the end of your mobility.

Students receive their results by mail and can refuse their grade within seven days if they want to take the exam again, otherwise, they implicitly authorise the grade to be officially registered in your booklet.

An exam is passed if the grade is between 18 (minimum) and 30/30L (maximum).

ALL EXAMS MUST BE SAT DURING THE OFFICIAL EXAM SESSIONS. It is NOT possible to ask to sit an exam before or after the official exam session.

All exams must be sat IN-PERSON; it is NOT possible to sit ONLINE exams.

  Moodle

Our department uses an e-learning platform called Moodle where professors upload lecture materials, news and other extra information about their courses. You will be able to access it with your personal Unipd mail account and password.