Incoming students

By June 15th you should send us your Application Form and your Learning Agreement signed and stamped by the Erasmus coordinator of your Home Institution (see application procedure).

Before arriving in Florence, please register online by entering your personal information (see the instructions pdf).

For the spring semester:

If your are a student of medicine, nursing or pharmacy and have clinical rotations and laboratories into your Learning Agreement you must arrive no later than the 19th of February to finalize the enrollment procedures:

• Safety course and blood analysis for clinical rotation and laboratories

Upon arrival in Florence, you should immediatly go to the International Relations Office of the School of Human Health Sciences to finalize your registration at the University of Florence.

The start date of your Erasmus+ period coincides with the business day (Monday to Friday) following your day of arrival as certified by your travel document (e.g., airline ticket, boarding pass, train ticket, highway toll payment receipt, etc.). 

Fill in the Google Form befor your arrival

If you are a student from outside the European Union, in addition to your travel document, you must also send a copy of your passport with a student visa (if required). For visa information, see the Universitaly website. If the mobility period is longer than 90 days, a residence permit is also required.

See also the  Application procedure

After completing the procedure, you will receive (after a few days):

• The “certificate of arrival” in digital format;
• Your student id number, (numero di matricola in Italian) for access to the  GCS Student Career Management page (the password is the one chosen during online pre-registration);
• Your Unifi email address (name.surname@stud.unifi.it) that you must use to communicate with Unifi Offices. More information (in Italian).

After your enrolment, you need to update your personal page on GCS Student Career Management with your Italian personal information (e.g., residence in Florence and Italian phone number). It is important that you keep your page up to date.

The Certificate of arrival will be issued upon your arrival in UniFi format, no other form or declaration will be signed. The International Relations Office of the School will send it to your home university by e-mail and in copy to you only once you have been correctly enrolled and upon reception of the student Id number (Matricola number). 

The Centro Linguistico di Ateneo (CLA) organizes Italian language courses throughout the academic year. If you have an international study grant (Erasmus and similar) you can register to one Italian Language course free of charge, starting from A2 level.

To attend this course you should fill in an online application available at the following link: CLA and follow the instructions. Futher instructions will be sent by e-mail from CLA.

Please note that you CAN’T get credits for classes at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo.

If you are interested in gaining access to the University canteens, you can request a DSU (Diritto allo Studio Universitario) card by scheduling an appointment from the following web page: DUS Card

The rate for a complete meal is €8.50.

The reduced rate with a first course (soup/rice/pasta dish) is €5.40.

The reduced rate with a second course (fish/meat/vegetarian dish) is €6.30.

The DSU card that allows access to the canteen must also be used for payment (electronic purse function), as cash payments are not accepted.

Your DSU card can be recharged:

• Online on the Ricarichiamoci website (LINK), via Paypal or credit card. For this method it's necessary to possess a SPID digital identity, an Italian electronic identity card or with the national services card. Foreign citizens in Italy who do not possess a digital identity must open a ticket at the Student Desk at the following link: Student Desk and request a CUR (Unique Recharge Code) which will allow them to top-up their credit online.
• At the designated money meters present in the proximity of various university canteens.

Check out the pages Welcome to Unifi for a brief introduction to the city and the University, including possibilities for accommodation and other practical information for your stay in Italy.

University's Guest House: at some university residences, you can use a paid guesthouse service with special rooms or unassigned or temporarily free accommodation for absentee.

You may also find a room to rent on your own. Here some information to help you:

• you can look at firenze.bakeca.it  or subito.it
• you can find lots of rent advertisement directly on the bulletin board at the entrance of Faculties and Libraries
• you can search Google for: 'stanza Erasmus Firenze' or "cerco stanza a Firenze"
• Facebook group 
• Housing Anywhere is a housing platform where students that go abroad for an exchange semester or internship can sublet their rooms. Incoming exchange students can rent those rooms.

Erasmus students are allowed to change their learning agreement only once per semester with the following deadlines:

- 15th November for changes of the first semester or whole year subjects or clinical rotations.
- 15th March for changes of the second semester subjects or clinical rotations.

If you wish to ask for an extension of your study period you should submit the extension of stay form available in the section “FORMS” to the Erasmus+ Coordinator of your Home Institution.

The closing date of your Erasmus in Florence coincides with either the date of your last exam (regardless of the outcome) or the end date of your classes if no exam was taken. In the case of traineeships, the end date of the mobility coincides with the end date of the activity.

Before checking out, check on GCS Student Career Management to see whether all examinations have been recorded, fill out the “esami sostenuti” form (rtf - pdf), and submit it to our office.

To avoid delays in the issuance of the final Transcript of records, while in Florence, check periodically on GCS Student Career Management the transcripts of exams taken. It is important that records are kept, even of failed exams. Hence, it is your responsibility to ask so to each Professor specifically.

By submitting the form, you confirm that you have completed all activities and wish to receive the Certification of Stay and Transcript of records. The International Mobility Office will close the mobility and send the Certification of Stay and Transcript of records by email to your home university with you in cc.

You have formally ended your Erasmus mobility period in Florence by checking out. Therefore, you can no longer take exams or other educational activities.

The Certification of Stay issued upon arrival and departure is in Unifi format. No other form or declaration will be signed