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Once you received an acceptance e-mail from the International Office at Palermo University you will be invited to apply as an erasmus student at Palermo University.

In this page, you can find all the current Erasmus agreements.

If you do not receive any acceptance message, ask your home University to check if you have been nominated.

Guide to enrol as Incoming Erasmus+ intra EU students

Video-Guide to enrol as Incoming Erasmus+ intra EU students (download English version)

Video-Guide to enrol as Incoming Erasmus+ intra EU students (download Spanish version)

 

Educational Offer - Degree Courses

APPLICATION DEADLINES

- 1st Semester: 30th June

- 2nd Semester: 30th November 

Online Application

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• Make sure that your application has been successful. Without receiving our acceptance e-mail, you will be not accepted as an Erasmus student.
  
• If you are a Medicine, a Dentistry or a Nursing student, in addition to the measures foreseen by the Italian Ministry of Health, you have to follow the Regulations containing the safety measures adopted by the "P.  Giaccone" University Hospital.
• BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL (Medicine, Dentistry or Nursing student): you will be requested to produce the following health documentation:
  - blood tests: CBC (Complete blood count), glucose (fasting), creatinine, Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), Aspartate aminotransferase  (AST), bilirubin (total and fractionated), hepatitis B markers (HBsAg  and anti HBs Ab), antiHCV Ab, anti HIV Ab, performed no earlier than  15 days before the first access date to the "P. Giaccone" University  Hospital;
  - intradermal Mantoux test;
  - Certification of negative result to SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swab test, carried out no earlier than five days before to the first access to the "P. Giaccone" University Hospital;
  - vaccination record (photocopy) and specific-antibody response;
  
  
• ONLY FOR MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY TRAINEESHIP STUDENTS: It is mandatory having a valid certification of a workplace safety course done at your university. (it is also possible to enclose a self-certification of this course).
  It's also mandatory, before sending your application through our portal, to ask for the signature of your teacher coordinator of the University of Palermo on your learning agreement.
  We suggest you to send the certification of a workplace safety course to the teacher coordinator when you ask for its signature on the learning agreement.

This documentation must be sent by e-mail to the AOUP Occupational Medicine Operational Unit for the necessary and consequent authorization.

• Don't forget to take with you your EHIC, the European Health Insurance Card. In case you are not a EU citizen, a valid Health insurance (which has to be written in English) is required.
• Make sure that your passport or your identity card is valid.
• Contact by e-mail your future teacher coordinator at Unipa (whose contact can be found on your learning agreement). Please Inform the International Relations Office about your arrival date and ask for a meeting incoming.students@unipa.it.

Department (Faculty) contacts

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Steps to be followed after your arrival and other useful information
At your arrival you have to go to the International Relations Office (Viale delle Scienze, Building n°3, 1st floor, room n°13, from Monday to Friday, from 9.30 o’clock to 12.30), handing in:

your passport or other identity document
your EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) for medical assistance
Then you will receive your arrival certificate and all useful information
We are sorry to inform you that, due to the restrictive measures about Covid19, the International Relations Office is currently unable to attend incoming students arriving in Palermo. We invite you to contact us by e-mail at the following address incoming.students@unipa.it in order to carry out the check-in procedures.

Furthermore, if you are a Medicine student, in the phase of first access to the internship you have to:

✔ declare that you have not been in quarantine or home isolation in the last 14 days;

✔ declare that you have not been in contact with positive people, as far as it knows, in the last 14 days;

✔ declare that you have not respiratory symptoms or fever above 37.5 ° C in the current day and in the three previous days;

✔ always wear the FFP2 type mask for the entire stay in the University spaces;

✔ always respect the spacing of at least 1 meter (including movement space) with all staff.

The self-declaration, duly filled in and signed, must be delivered to the Responsible for the internship who will take care to archive and keep it for 14 days in order to record, if necessary, any close contacts.

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 Steps to be followed before leaving Palermo

1. Send an e-mail to your Unipa Tutor/ Coordinator and ask for an appointment informing about the date of your leave.

2. Go to the appointment with your Tutor/ Coordinator at Unipa and collect your signed Transcript of records with all examinations and credits you got.

3. After collecting the signed “Transcript of records”by your Tutor/Coordinator, Then, come in person to the International Office in order to receive your Certificate of Stay. These documents are very important and you should bring the original ones to your home University (please check Office working times).

4. Collect your Transcript of records - a list of the educational activities you attended: exams, laboratories, etc. - at the International Relations Office, that provides to mail it to your address, in case it should not be ready when you leave.

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