This information is for international degree-seeking students. If you need further information, you can contact the Student Support (study@unibz.it, +39 0471 012900).

If you are an exchange student, this information does not apply to you. If you have any questions, please get in touch with the International Relations Office.

The Italian individual tax code is what you need to identify yourself when dealing with Italian public offices and institutions. If you have not applied for it at the nearest Italian embassy/consulate in your country, in order to obtain this tax code, you have to request it to the “Agenzia delle Entrate” (Italian Revenue Agency) with a valid passport or ID card.

You can do this in two ways:

• you can book an appointment and go in person
• or you can fill out this form and send it to dp.bolzano.utbolzano@agenziaentrate.it (you will get your tax code in usually 10 days)

You must have obtained your Italian individual tax code in order to:

• Complete your enrolment at our University (you can also get the code after you have enrolled provisionally)
• to apply for a study grant
• to buy the public transportation pass (abo+)

You have to submit your tax code to the Student Secretariat as soon as you get it.

Further information can be found on the Italian Revenue Agency’s website.

Italian law states that all EU citizens who wish to stay in another EU country for longer than 90 days can register with the city/town authorities in which they wish to live. This does not mean that you must relinquish your residency in your own country.

As an EU student in Italy you can register your temporary residence in Italy.

In order to do that, after you have lived for at least 4 months in Italy, you must go to the Registry Office (Anagrafe) in the city/town where you are living during your studies (Bozen-Bolzano, Brixen-Bressanone, or Bruneck-Brunico) with specific documents (ID and others).

If you are living in Bozen-Bolzano you can find out what you need to send via e-mail by looking on the official webpage of the Registry Office. If instead you study (and live) in Brixen-Bressaone or in Bruneck-Brunico, please contact the responsible office there to find out exactly what you need to take with you.

Please be advised that many registry offices will ask you to show them that you have health cover through your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).

If instead you want to move your fix residency to Italy, the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is not enough. You can get in touch with the Student Support for more information.

There are three options for EU citizens for your health cover in Italy.

It is your own national health service that decides which documents to give you and therefore which options apply to you.

Cover through the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)

If you have the EHIC that is issued by your country, you have the right to any treatment that is necessary during the time you’re studying in Italy.

All you have to do is go to the doctor/place that provides the treatment (GP, Accident and Emergency, Out-patient department). If you go to a GP, you can see them for free, but this is on an occasional basis.

The cost of the treatment will then be charged to your own health care provider abroad.

This is the preferable option.

Cover through the S1 or E106, E109/E37 foreign insurance policies

You have to go to the health authorities in your own country and ask them to issue you one of the policies listed above. These policies will enable you to register for health cover in South Tyrol as if you were an Italian citizen.

With one of these policies:

• you can choose your family doctor/GP
• you can seek assistance at Accident and Emergency at a hospital and you’ll only have to pay the standard price (the so-called “ticket”)
• you can access all planned specialist services
• you can access all services for preventative medicine
• you don’t have to pay for the services of the duty doctor, if needed
• if you are a resident: you can access any discounts that may be due to you and any exemptions on the standard prices of medicines or appointments with specialists (the “ticket”)

Cover though Italian private health insurance schemes or private foreign health insurance, instead of the EHIC or the S1 policy

You can also buy a private health insurance that will cover you for all accidents you may have and treatment you may need during the time you’re studying in Italy. In this case, you will be regarded as a “paying foreign citizen” and as such you do not need to register for the local health service.

One of the cheapest one is the one offered by Welcome Association Italy. You can buy it online by registering on WAI’s website. You can either buy a 6-month insurance (for €152) or a 12-month one (for €212). After you bought your insurance, you can log in and download the certificate and the information on how to use it.

If you do not have the EHIC, or you do not have health cover in your own country and you do not want to take out private insurance

The Italian Health Ministry, in an information bulletin from 19 February 2008, has stated that EU citizens who do not have the EHIC, who do not have health cover from their own countries and who do not have private health insurance only have the right to urgent treatment or treatment that cannot be postponed.

If you do not have any type of health cover, it is advisable to stay in an EU country that isn’t yours for a maximum of three months only. Furthermore, in this situation, you will not be able to register with the local council for the duration of your studies.

If you want to organise your finances while you are studying here, and to obtain any study grants that you may apply for, you can open an Italian bank account.

Most banks offer special accounts for students and young people – normally accounts for young people are for people under the age of 26. We suggest you have a look at the deals being offered by the different banks and open an account at the beginning of the academic year.

If you want to open a special account for students, apart from an ID card, you will also have to show your Student Card. If the bank requires a certificate, you can download a self-declaration autonomously.

The Right to Higher Education Office of the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano offers study grants for students.

If you are awarded a grant or are eligible to receive a grant from the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano, the university fees that you paid for that academic year will be reimbursed.

The South Tyrolean Student Association (sh.asus) can help you to fill in the grant application form during its opening hours.

Applications for study grants can only be made online.

To this purpose you must use a public digital identity in eIDAS system (European electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services). If you don’t have a public digital identity issued from your home country, you can either request the Italian one (SPID) or apply for a temporary certified account at the Right to Higher Education Office of the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano.

SPID

In order to activate SPID you need an Italian identification document (ID, driving licence, passport).

For Austrian students

If you are an Austrian student, you can apply, for a grant from the Austrian “Studienbeihilfenbehörde” organization (www.stipendium.at) to finance your studies abroad.

For German students

If you are a German student, you can apply for a grant made available by the German Ministry of Education (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), to finance your studies if the entire course is being done abroad.

For further information, check out the Ministry’s website (in German): www.auslandsbafoeg.de.

For citizens of another EU country

If you are a citizen of another EU country, we advise you to get in touch with the competent authorities in your country to discover if they issue study grants for studying abroad.

If you need further information, you can contact the Student Support (study@unibz.it, +39 0471 012900) or you can book an appointment with the team.