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Learn more about the insurance: https://www.waitaly.net/en/student-health-coverage-in-italy/
Language requirements: https://www.unipa.it/mobilita/en/new-students/admission-requirements/
00:00 Intro
01:09 University Website
03:03 Residence Permit
07:04 Application Requirements
10:13 Creating an Account
15:23 Creating an Application
21:49 Ending the Application and Next Steps
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Hi everyone, it's Global Scholarships,
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and I'm your host As. I hope you're all
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doing well. And today we'll see the
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application procedure of University of
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Palermo in Italy. Now, I'm going to
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leave this link in the description and
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like the in the pinned comment. Uh you
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can use this is our platform. This is
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our page for this university. You can
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use it to get a lot of free information
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about like location, population,
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different scholarships. There are not
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that many uh great scholarships in Italy
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because in you know, the education is
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already quite affordable compared to
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other countries. We have some
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scholarship recipients in this
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university. You can click on uh their
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stories, and you can just Usually we
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have some sort of link, some sort of uh
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contact that you can ask them any
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inform- You can ask them for any
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information you might be interested in.
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And so yeah, if you have any questions,
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you can leave them here in our comment
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section. Uh he only answers all of them.
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He is the founder of Global
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Scholarships, and you know, our main
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expert. So, to start our application
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procedure. Now,
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uh 20 20th of July is the end of the
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deadline. So, if you're interested in
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this university, make sure like be quick
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about it. So, we're going to click on
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bachelor's here, which is going to take
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us to the university's
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um application international affairs
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application uh page. Here we have
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international students enrollment,
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residence permit, language requirements,
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international course offerings,
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scholarship international students,
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scholarships for international students,
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tuition fees, etc. Now, University of
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Palermo welcomes applications from
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international students. You are
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considered an international student if
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you hold a non-Italian academic diploma,
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degree, or equivalent. Please note that
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the pre-enrollment at the university
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does not in any way guarantee an
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appointment at the diplomatic consular
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office. So, uh like just because you
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have earned an admission letter from
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this university or like you enrolled in
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it doesn't mean that you're guaranteed
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to get You're guaranteed to get um visa.
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Now, here we have extra EU enrollment
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and intra EU enrollment. Basically, if
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you're from outside European Union, uh,
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you're going to have to go through this,
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which usually is the case for a lot of
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people who are watching our videos. So,
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I'm going to click on this one. So, this
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is the main page where where you'll get
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a lot of the information.
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Extra EU students enrollment. Um, study
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with us.
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Admission enrollment. If you have an
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international entry qualification,
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please follow the instructions below. If
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you have an Italian entry qualification,
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that's for another, uh, that's for
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another website. Application
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Applications are currently open only for
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bachelor programs taught in English.
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Admission procedures for programs taught
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in Italian will follow a different
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process and will open at a later stage.
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For At this moment, you can only apply
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for, um, English programs. Here we have
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step-by-step procedure, uh, for English
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taught programs, for Italian, timeline,
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admission requirements, uh, language
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requirements, and fees. Now, before we
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go into that,
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uh, you can get you you you might want
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to get more information on residence
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permit, right?
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>> [snorts]
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>> Non-EU Non-EU students enrolled in study
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courses or individual courses who intend
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to stay in Italy for more than 90 days
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must apply for residence permit. So,
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this can be quite quite a complicated
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procedure for a lot of people,
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especially like if you are not very
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familiar, uh, with whole like what the
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visa procedure looks like. The residence
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permit application must be submitted
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within eight days of arrival in Italy.
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So, basically, uh, I'm
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showing you this because, uh, there are
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certain documents that are necessary for
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a residence permit that are not in the
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application procedure. So, if you only
3:41
look at the required documents for, uh,
3:44
the application procedure for this
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university, you might miss some of the
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documents that are required for
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residence permit, so then you might like
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you might have difficulties getting the
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permit, right? You will have the
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original passport, copies of the pages
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containing personal data, visa and entry
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stamp, and copies of any other pages
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with visas and entry and exit stamps. A
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copy of the Italian National Health
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Service registration or or health
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insurance. You can register for Italian
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National Health Service or you can go
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with another like kind of like private
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health insurance as long as it is it's
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available in Italy. Copy of a
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copy of a document certifying the
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economic resources that are necessary
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for staying in Italy. You can deliver
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the documents used for the visa
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application or an extract from the bank.
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So this is a page where you can get
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information about the student health
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coverage and
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health insurance in Italy. I'm going to
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leave you I'm going to leave this in the
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pin comment as well. Basically, it is Is
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it mandatory? Yes, it's mandatory.
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Without insurance you can't get a visa,
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you cannot apply for a residence permit,
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you cannot renew it. This is for EU
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students. For non-EU students, you have
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to make voluntary enrollment in the SSN.
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Again, the
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national health insurance service of
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Italy or take out private medical
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insurance.
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They kind of like detail both options.
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Basically, it's about like annual flat
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flat rate of minimum 700 euros for the
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national health service, but for private
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medical insurance it's usually kind of
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more affordable than that, right?
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Read all of this. This is This is a very
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like this is very good information that
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you can use to understand the health
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insurance because it's it's it's kind of
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a complicated topic and
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if you mess it up
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like it'll it'll be a big problem.
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Again, so economic resources that are
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necessary, right? Like it's kind of like
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what you do in Germany. Basically, in
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Germany you have to put a certain amount
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of money in blocked account
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so that the government know that you
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have enough funds to go and study there.
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It's kind of the same except this is not
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in a blocked account. You're going to
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have to put the necessary amount, which
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is about 10,000 to 11,000 euros because
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that's
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how much they estimate you will need a
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year for a year of your study in there.
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You're just going to have to put that in
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a bank and then get like a bank
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statement and show that during your visa
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application. Documents demonstrate
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availability of accommodation in Italy.
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So, this could be kind of like a rental
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contract that you have signed, maybe a
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hotel reservation. But, if it is a hotel
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reservation, it has to be about 20 days
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at least. Or maybe you have
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accommodation at a university residence.
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But, you can also have a declaration of
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hospitality by like either an individual
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or a credit institution. Like, they will
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give you a declaration that they will
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they will accommodate you for the time
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being. All right? So, you can choose
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whichever of those is the most feasible
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for you. After completing a copy of the
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pre-enrollment application at the
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Embassy of Italy and a 16 euros tax
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stamp. All right? So, these are the
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things that you need to have
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for residence permit. Okay, this is the
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residence permit. Now, let's go and see
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the requirements for actually applying
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to the university. So, this is English
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taught program step-by-step procedure.
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First, you choose your degree program.
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Now, as of this moment, not every
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program is available. It's only English
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programs and even those are not all
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open. We're going to see those in a
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second. Prepare all required documents
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in PDF format. We're going to see those
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in a second as well.
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Register on Universitaly student portal
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and start the enrollment application by
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going through here. If you have applied
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if you applied for a bachelor's degree
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program taught in English, wait for the
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evaluation feedback. Please note that
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that application is checked by the
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administrative office and then evaluated
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by the course coordinator. Register on
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university portal. This is after you
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finish your enrollment application. In
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order to complete your enrollment,
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follow the instructions provided in the
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bachelor. So, we're going to do this
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part today. Choosing our degree program,
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preparing our documents, and starting
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like creating account on Unipus student
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portal, and basically giving them our
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enrollment application. Here we have
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timeline. As you can see, this
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bachelor's degree courses enrollment
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application had has to be finished until
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July 20th, 2026. And then we have
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admission requirements. For bachelor's,
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the documents required are a valid
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passport, ID photos, copy of your high
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school degree. If you apply for a
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bachelor's degree program taught in
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English, an official English
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certification B2 level or higher is a
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language requirements page. Basically,
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you can choose any one of these, right?
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IELTS, TOEFL, Pearson. Also, you can be
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exempt from this if you have if you hold
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any of these criteria, right? So, this
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is the English or like this is the
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language requirement. If you're applying
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for an Italian taught program, it will
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be that. If you apply for a bachelor's
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degree program taught in English, you'll
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need to have that. And then we have
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bachelor enrollment documents. This is
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basically after after we finish our
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application that we're going to see
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today. And then you are told that you're
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accepted for enrollment in the
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university. Your original high school
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diploma translated into Italian or
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English and legalized. One of the
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following following documents.
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Declaration of value, statement of
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comparability and verification. So, you
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can look at look into these, but
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we're not going to do these today,
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right? We're going to do the application
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for enrollment.
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For that, we're We're to go and first
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look into our programs, which ones are
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open.
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Held in English,
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held in Italian. Let's choose this one.
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So, we have bachelor's degrees,
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economics and finance, uh you have
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course datas, industrial and information
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engineering, nursing. Uh so, basically
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these are the programs that are open for
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application right now. So, if you have
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chosen your program here, which I mean,
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you would know what you're going to
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apply for before you come here,
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probably. And then prepare all the
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required documents. Now, we're going to
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click on this link to go
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and create an account on Unipass student
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portal. So, student registration. If you
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are an international student and already
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have the Italian tax code, go to
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registration with Italian tax code,
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otherwise, go to international students.
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If you're an Italian student, uh yeah,
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you get the idea. So, we're going to
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choose this one, personal data. Surname,
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name, gender, nationality, date of
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birth, place of birth, uh Italian tax
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code for foreign students uh is
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automatically generated, and email.
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Please insert a valid personal email.
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Hotmail, MSN, and Live may not be
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delivered to you from our mail server.
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Don't specify also email on
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unipa.unipa.it,
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and yeah, yeah, you get the idea. Like,
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use Gmail. It is pretty much acceptable
10:51
everywhere, I guess. Okay, so let's give
10:53
them some made-up information because in
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the end, we're not going to send them
10:56
the application. This is just for
10:58
demonstration. So, place of birth, we're
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going to click on this button here,
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and then we're going to choose our
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country, which is Turkey for me. Uh
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click on select. City, let's say this is
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my birth city.
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Confirm.
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So, they've automatically generated a
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tax code, Italian tax code for you.
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Like, it would be a good idea to just
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note this somewhere. Now, we're going to
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give them our mail address. For that,
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I'm going to use a temporary email. Oh,
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great, it won't let me copy and paste.
11:28
Okay, looks good.
11:30
I'm not a robot, and continue. Now,
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we're going to give them our address
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information, home address, Italian
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address, postal address, other
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addresses. Um let's click on search
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city.
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Select. Um let's say Istanbul. Yeah,
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make sure to give them your address um
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correctly and accurately. I'm I'm just
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going to do this. Okay, I'm not sure why
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these are in Italian unlike the rest,
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but basically domicilio or domicilia
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means uh like wherever you are staying
12:01
right now, like your temporary address.
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Um I guess that would be Italian
12:05
address. And residenza residenza means
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uh your permanent address. I guess that
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would be your home address. So, choose
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whichever you want your mail to be
12:14
addressed to, and mobile phone. Okay,
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let's click on continue. Okay, summary
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personal data student. Good. And summary
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personal data student. Um surname, name
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>> [sighs]
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>> uh
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personal data, home address, postal
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address, other addresses.
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Confirm.
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Registration successfully completed.
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Within a few hours
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few hours I'm not sure why that is the
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case. You will receive an email. Click
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on the confirmation link to complete
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your registration. Normally, it would
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take like a couple of minutes. Okay, so
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it's been about 2 hours. It actually
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took like 2 I think a little more than 2
12:53
hours. Uh but email has arrived. So, I'm
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going to I'm just going to go, and
12:58
basically they give you a link. You have
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to click on the link, and it's going to
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take you to a page. This site does not
13:04
support a secure connection. You are
13:06
seeing this warning because this I I I
13:08
see. Um
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I'm going to click on continue to site
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even though not very comfortably. Let's
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see what's going to happen. Okay,
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confirm registration. Let's click on
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that. Result account activation.
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The account successfully created. In a
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few in few minutes, you'll receive
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further information on how to access to
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the portal of Universal Palermo. Now,
13:30
please set your password by clicking the
13:32
link above.
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Um all right. So, this is our fiscal
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code. It's odd that like sometimes it
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decides to switch to Italian.
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Uh let's click on this, I guess. All
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right, let's try to translate this to
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English. Your request has been
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successfully made. If there is an
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account associated with the data
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entered, you will receive a message to
13:55
the contacts in our archives containing
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the information necessary to recover
13:59
your password. I did not try to recover
14:01
my password. I didn't create it yet, but
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sure. Now, I'm going to go to my
14:06
temporary mail address. So, I got an
14:08
email that said user created and then
14:10
there's a link in there, and I clicked
14:13
on that. It says like, "In order to
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create your password, please click on
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this link." And that takes me here.
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Imposta password. All right, we'll
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choose a password. What what one-time
14:23
password? What? Okay. You know what?
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Let's Okay. So, remember that your new
14:28
password must be between eight and 20
14:31
characters long and must include at
14:34
least one capital letter and one digit.
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The following special characters are
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also allowed. All right, let's try to
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find something that is acceptable.
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One-time password field is invalid or
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has I see.
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Uh my one-time password is invalid
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because I think I clicked on the lost I
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lost my password thingy. Okay, so I'm
14:58
going to have to go and do the whole
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lost password mail thing. Okay, so this
15:04
is my one-time password. Once again, try
15:07
to use that specific password that I
15:10
picked. Okay, password. All right, yeah,
15:13
it's it's it's it's accepted. Now, we
15:14
can log in.
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Click on log in. Let's type in our
15:18
password.
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And then I our username and login. Okay,
15:24
finally we are in. So here we have
15:28
Portale Studenti. Uh our phone number is
15:31
not verified, etc. etc. Now I'm going to
15:34
translate this to English. Here we have
15:36
positions, addresses, basically
15:39
uh I'm going to click on the student
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portal. It is recommended to pay close
15:43
attention to fishing on Unipa accounts.
15:46
Fishing campaign targeted uh targeting
15:49
has been Yeah. If you do not know what
15:51
uh the message refers to an alleged
15:53
central authentication service.
15:56
And it refers to a fake webpage,
15:58
reproduces graphic elements of the
16:00
University of Palermo. On this page you
16:02
will be asked to enter username,
16:04
professional mail, password. Do not
16:06
click on the link or enter your
16:08
credentials. The reference to the
16:10
central authentication service is used
16:12
by scammers to make Yeah, yeah, you can
16:14
read all of this. Okay, here we have
16:16
home. Uh let's choose this. Okay. We
16:20
have home, applications, payments, PhD,
16:23
incoming student. Uh both of these have
16:26
new application forms.
16:28
And Sorry, my application forms and new
16:30
application form. Uh we're going to
16:32
choose that. Uh click on the category
16:34
name for view to the
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category name for view the related
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application forms. Let's choose um
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English. Here we have competitions and
16:45
enrollment calls and enrollment
16:46
applications. Competitions for admission
16:49
to degree program. Yeah, you This is for
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degree programs basically. Click on
16:52
that.
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Application for partic- participation in
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online test competition, etc. For degree
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programs, application
17:00
for enrollment in a bachelor's degree
17:02
program. Uh enrollment application with
17:05
purchase of credits. We're going to
17:06
choose this one, application for
17:08
enrollment in a bachelor's degree
17:09
program. Select enrollment type. The
17:11
completion of the application form and
17:13
payment of tuition fees does not
17:14
automatically imply enrollment in the
17:16
selected degree program. The enrollment
17:18
is formalized at the student
17:20
administration office after the
17:22
competent in what competent university
17:24
offices have successfully checked the
17:26
validity of the day. Basically, you are
17:28
just applying for enrollment. All right,
17:31
this is enrollment bachelor's degree
17:33
master's degree application. So, let's
17:36
choose that.
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First enrollment information. Dear
17:40
student, this online procedure allows
17:41
you to complete the enrollment
17:43
application for bachelor's or master's
17:45
degree course at the University of
17:46
Palermo. We kindly ask you to provide
17:49
the following information. Have you ever
17:51
been enrolled at an Italian university
17:53
before? If so, please specify where and
17:56
when you made your first enrollment. If
17:59
not, enter the current values. Have you
18:01
ever been previously enrolled at an
18:03
Italian university? No.
18:05
Um
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Yeah, I guess that's it.
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Next, complete the enrollment
18:09
application form. Select degree program.
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All right.
18:14
Single cycle degree program, master's
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degree, and
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bachelor's degree.
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Let's use this one and select.
18:24
Of course, uh your pro like the program
18:26
you are planning to apply to might
18:28
change, like might be different than
18:30
this one. So, procedure can procedure
18:33
might be a little different, but you
18:35
know not not too much probably. So, we
18:37
have architecture. Okay, so remember
18:41
when we were looking at the
18:42
international course offerings? So,
18:45
uh you will need these CODs or like
18:48
codes. Uh for example, this is 2504 for
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economics and finance. Right? Uh these
18:54
are the offerings right now.
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So, these ones um require an entry test.
19:00
Anyway, 2504, right?
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Uh and if I go to 2504 Economia e
19:06
Finanza Classe
19:08
L-33 or course uh yeah, you get the
19:10
idea. Bachelor's degree. I'm going to
19:12
choose that. Select. So, this is this
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should be open for application right
19:15
now. Course type curriculum.
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Um economics and global markets. Yeah,
19:21
this is the one.
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Remember?
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Uh uh
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bachelor's degree in economics and
19:26
finance uh curriculum economics and
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global markets. Let's choose that. This
19:31
one is in English, remember. If you're
19:32
applying to this, you will need the
19:34
English requirements. Uh okay, so
19:36
selecting degree program is done. Uh
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let's click on next. This is step two of
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nine, by the way. Uh student
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information. Application form type,
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degree program,
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personal information. Okay. So,
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in this step, the system adds your
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personal photo, if one exists, to the
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current application form. You can upload
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your personal photo at a later time.
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Uh you can click on here to upload your
20:02
photo right now, but I guess it's not
20:04
mandatory
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as of this moment. Create application
20:07
form. Eligibility request for extra EU
20:10
students. Please note, to compile this
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pre-enrollment enrollment application
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form, you have to confirm the MSC
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admission request form for international
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students. This is a number.
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For approval by student office,
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segreteria studenti, and by coordinator
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professor of the selected degree program
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2504 economia e finanze, etc. Make sure
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you have confirmed this request
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attaching all mandatory files.
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So, this is the only program that we can
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uh we can choose.
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Briefly describe the reasons for your
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application. This is your motivational
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letter.
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To make a tutorial video. And we have
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attachments.
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High school diploma, valid passport, um
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passport photos, transcript records,
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CV, language certification,
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additional degree. Uh I'm going to
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upload something as uh my high school
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diploma.
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Make sure that your your documents are
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completely correct and in order. Attach.
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The operation was completed
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successfully. So, I'm not sure if I have
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to upload anything more. Obviously, you
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would need to upload all of this, valid
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passport, passport photos, etc.
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Uh but this is I know what, I'll just
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add all of it.
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So, this is for high school diploma.
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This is for valid passport. Let's add
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one for passport photos. Cool. Attach.
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Transcript of records. Attach. CV.
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All right. Uh and I think the only one
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that is mandatory left is language
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certification. Let's click on attach.
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Well, anyway, when you upload all the
21:51
documents and then click on confirm,
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your application will be sent to the
21:56
university for, you know, assessment.
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I'm not going to do that here.
21:59
Obviously, this is like I'm not going to
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send them a fake uh application uh to
22:04
waste their time. This is just for
22:06
demonstration. Uh but after that, you
22:08
should get you should be informed by the
22:10
university whether you are accepted for
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actual enrollment to the university,
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after which you are going to have to go
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through the rest of this. Like here we
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have we are at the end of these uh end
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of this third step. So, if you applied
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for a bachelor degree program taught in
22:28
English, wait for the evaluation
22:29
feedback. This is where you are now,
22:32
after sending your application. Please
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note that your application is checked by
22:36
the administrative office. This is what
22:38
what is going on for you, and then
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evaluated by the course coordinator.
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Register and then after you're accepted,
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you register on university portal. Uh
22:48
here you have a tutorial. When you
22:49
complete it, you can you can also use
22:51
these links, and you will have enrolled
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at the university. Anyway, that's it for
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today. Uh I hope you found this video
22:58
informative. Uh and if you have any
23:00
questions, please let us know in the
23:02
comment section, and we'll see you in
23:04
the next one.
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Bye.
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