The competition calls for the assignment of 12 university scholarships, international mobility grants, and bachelor’s and master’s degree prizes is open to students who will enroll in a bachelor’s or master’s degree program held completely or partially in English language, as defined below at the University of Naples “Parthenope” A.Y. 2023/2024.

All students who have non-EU citizenship are considered international, including Italian citizens with citizenship in a non-EU country, and who have obtained the qualification valid for access to a Bachelor or Master’s degree course in Italy.

Students of any nationality are qualified as international, if the titles required for admission to the chosen BA/MA programs were obtained outside the Italian education system.

By “matriculation”, it is meant the first enrolment in the first year of a study course. Enrolments in the following years, changes among courses and transfers to other universities, are not intended as matriculations.

The University of Naples “Parthenope” grants twelve (12) scholarships, each one amounting to € 2000,00 before taxes and any other duties or fees applicable according to Italian laws. The Scholarship is granted for one academic year and will be paid in 2 instalments each one of € 1000. Beneficiaries will be exempted from the payment of the tuition fees for the academic year 2023/2024, except for the regional tax and stamp duty.

The 12 scholarships are related to the bachelor’s and master’s Degrees Programs reported in Table A (2 scholarships for each program).

To be included in the ranking, applicants for the scholarship must:

• hold citizenship in a non-EU country.
• not be resident in Italy.
• have obtained a foreign academic qualification equivalent in level, type, content, and academic rights (access to further courses), to the Italian academic qualification required for access to the chosen study program.
• Students should have completed their previous educational career before and received the title before 15^th July 2023;
• have never been enrolled in Bachelor’s, Master’s, or single-cycle degree courses at University of Naples “Parthenope” previously;
• have an adequate knowledge of the English language.
• have curricular requirements and adequate personal preparation.
• have pre-enrolled at the University through the Universitaly website and must have obtained a letter of admission for enrollment from the University Parthenope.

Applicants must complete and submit the following form within 15th September 2023 within the midnight (CET). Applications submitted after the deadline will be rejected automatically. Candidates are strongly recommended to prepare the required documents in advance. To complete the application, candidates must upload the following documents:

1. Copy of passport (only pages relating to personal data);
2. Copy of the degree title or certificate of enrollment certifying the expected graduation date (if the document is not in English, an official translation in Italian or English is required)
3. Certificate of the study plan showing the list of exams taken, grades, range of minimum and maximum grades, and possibly GPA (if the document is not in English, an official translation in Italian or English is required).
4. Curriculum vitae in English drawn up according to the European format https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/documents/curriculum-vitae;
5. Certificate of knowledge of the English language;
6. Statement of Purpose (in English), in which the candidate argues and justifies his/her enrolment at the University of Naples Parthenope (max 1500 words);
7. Any other document that the candidate considers useful for the assessment, including the Declaration of Value (DoV) or Certificate of Comparability of the qualification, Certificates of attendance to Masters, Summer Courses, Workshops, work experiences, etc .;
8. Pre-admission letter (Lettera di idoneità alla immatricolazione) issued by the University of Naples “Parthenope” 

Candidates are also required to register and authenticate themselves on the ESSE3 platform by creating an account through the following link:
https://uniparthenope.esse3.cineca.it/AddressBook/ABStartProcessoRegAction.do;jsessionid=D8C B44EC4C32BA4340814A7630C892F2 .esse3-uniparthenope-prod-04? cod_lingua = eng

1. 1. A special Admission Committee will be nominated by the Rector. The Committee will certify the regularity of the applications and will evaluate curricular requirements and personal preparation of the suitable candidates only.
   2. To each applicant, the Committee will give a score for a maximum of 100 points as- signed based on the criteria outlined in the table below (TABLE B)
   3. The Committee draws up a ranking of possible beneficiaries for each course.
   4. Applicants will be considered as eligible if their score will be equal to or higher than 30/100.
   5. In the case of parity, the younger candidate will prevail over the older one.
   6. In case the number of allotments is lower than the number of available scholarships, by compensation, the additional scholarship could be assigned to the study course which will have more eligible beneficiaries than the scholarships assigned originally.
   7. Once the assessment step has been completed, the Committee will transfer the results to the office in charge for publication on the website international.uniparthenope.it.

Students who benefit or have already benefited from another scholarship provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) will not be eligible for the call and will be asked to choose which of the 2 scholarships they will accept.

Each beneficiary will receive a communication in the same e-mail box indicated during the submission of the request.

In order to accept the scholarship, beneficiaries must reply to the e-mail to the scholarships.international@uniparthenope.it, within 20 days from the date of notification of the granting of the scholarship, under penalty of exclusion.

The scholarship will be paid only if the successful candidate will fully complete the enrollment within the terms allowed for the Academic Year 2023/24.

Foreign students who need an entry visa for Italy must also obtain this entry visa and, after arriving in Italy, apply for a residence permit for study purposes. The scholarship will be revoked whether the entry Visa request will be rejected or if beneficiaries do not submit a request for a residence permit.

The right to the scholarship is lost if:

• The student incurs disciplinary sanctions higher than written censorship, for infractions committed against the University.
• The student withdraws from studies or transfers to another university during the academic year 2023/2024.
• The University verifies the untruthfulness of the data declared by the student.
• The student does not achieve the 50% of the total CFU scheduled to be completed in the first year of the course.

Students who resulted as “eligible” will have to communicate their bank account details by sending a form that will be requested from the International Office, in order to enable the refund of the university tuition fees, as well as the payment of the balance of the scholarship for the admissible students who resulted BENEFICIARY.

The scholarships will be disbursed in 2 installments by bank transfer to a bank account, or prepaid card, with an Italian IBAN in the name or joint name of the beneficiary student only if the payment status of each student will be regular and if the students will have achieved the number of CFU targeted.

The 1^st installment, of 1000 euros, will be paid within 15^th July 2024 only if the beneficiary will achieve a total of 6 CFU within 30^th June 2024;

The 2^nd installment of 1000 euros will bepaid within 30^th November 2024 only if the beneficiary will achieve the 50% of the total CFU scheduled in the first year of his study plan. Within 30^th September 2024;

The ranking is published in the University Notice Board https://international.uniparthenope.it/tuition- fees-and-scholarships

In case a beneficiary rejects or does not complete the matriculation, the list will be scrolled and the ranking position will vary in order to give the possibility to other eligible students in the ranking list to become beneficiaries according to their total score.

The responsible for the procedure is MARIALAURA ELIANI, International Affairs Office e-mail: scholarships.international@uniparthenope.it

tel: +390815475864

University of Naples “Parthenope”is the controller of the personal data processing. Internal and external people have been appointed as regards to this issue. A Data Protection Officer (D.P.O.) has also been appointed and is available at privacy@uniparthenope.it.

The original version of this call has been written in Italian language and this translation is only meant for informative purposes; for the resolution on any dispute and for each legal effect the only one to be taken into consideration is the Italian one.

For anything not expressly indicated please refer to the University regulation for each topic.

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The file with Official Rankings is published on  Albo di Ateneo with number 44 and available here https://titulus-uniparthenope.cineca.it/albo/

The table of the ranking is the one below: