Posts by Michele Covolan

The official announcement of the entrance test to medical graduate schools has been published.
– The entrance test has been scheduled on September 22 nd.  It will consist of 140 multiple-choice questions to
be solved within 210 minutes. A maximum of 7 points will be awarded for pre-existing qualification/diplomas.
– Candidates will be able to register for the test on the website universitaly.it starting from July 28 th until
August 6 th at 3:00 pm.
– The locations hosting the test will be announced before September st , 2020.
– Each candidate will have the option to select any number of the listed grad schools once between October 5
th -9 th 2020. Official designations to each school will be published on October 12 th .
– Enrolment procedures should be completed by 12:00 am on October 20 th , 2020. Reallocations will start from
October 28 th .
Courses are scheduled to begin on Wednesday, 30 th December 2020.
⚪ Admission requirements ⚪
▶ Having graduated by September 16 th and having passed the qualifying exam to exercise the medical
profession by the beginning of courses (December 30 th )
▶ Not being enrolled on a general medical practice course (CFSMG) when taking the admission test.
Here are some recent changes to the rules:
Doctors applying to general medical practice courses will be allowed to “participate in entrance tests to
medical graduate schools for doctors only after their general medical practice course has ended, or alternatively
they will be allowed to participate if they renounce the aforementioned course, discontinuing it prematurely”.
The ceiling of 3 schools max to be chosen as preferences when registering for the test has been removed.
The new rules allow for the “widest choice range” possible, instead.
Express indication of the number of available spots for each listed school has also been removed.

What do Dothraki from “Game of Thrones” and Klingon from “Star Trek” have in common? They are both con- languages, artificial languages purposefully designed for fictional universes.
Constructing a language is akin to any act of science and requires the right mixture of skill and creativity. In case some aliens wanted to communicate with us, one cannot simply turn themselves into a language expert out of the blue. This is the main topic of the last episode before summer break of the podcast “Prof fantastici e dove trovarli” (Fantastic professors and where to find them), featuring three linguists from Università di Torino.

The podcast is hosted by FridA (the Academic Forum for Research of Università di Torino) and follows the lives of professors and researchers from Unito beyond lecture time, combining research, personal interests and curiosities. In particular, the guests of podcast episode “Lingue a merenda” (A multilingual snack) are Ms Elsa Corino, Professor of Modern Languages, Mr Roberto Merlo, Professor of Romanian Language & Literature, and Mr Simone Bettega, Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, all teaching at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures.

Many admission tests for the upcoming academic year that require students to pass a selection process will be held online using the platform made available by CISIA and their TOLC@Home tests (TOLC@Casa). How does it all work? Here you will find all the explanations you may need.

● How much does it cost? 30 Euros.
● Can I take more than one test? Yes, as long as they are held in different months from one another.
● After I receive my scores, can I consider myself accepted into the ranking list for my preferred university
course? No, not until your university announces the minimal score required for admission. Then you will
have to wait for the full ranking list published in September in order to know whether you can enrol or not.

The call for applications for scholarships, accommodation services and graduation grants by EDISU Piemonte is now online!
Here you will find some of the changes recently introduced to the rules of application.
This year, applications for scholarships and accommodation and those for scholarships only will have
separate procedures to follow. This will affect, more specifically:

● openings of the procedures of application for scholarships and accommodation and for
scholarships only
● THE OFFICIAL DEADLINE TO APPLY for ACCOMMODATION and SCHOLARSHIPS
● THE OFFICIAL DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS ONLY.
1️⃣  Students will still have the opportunity to be included in the ranking lists published on March 15 th ,
2021 in case of exclusion from the definitive list published on December 15 th , 2020. Failure to register
and/or failure to provide complete consular documentation within the deadline for appeals to the temporary
lists for accommodation (September 15 th ) or scholarship assignment (November 20 th ) count as grounds for
the aforementioned exclusion.
2️⃣  Students will be allowed to confirm/reaffirm the financial figures declared for the academic year
2019-2020 in case the lockdown caused by the healthcare emergency makes it unduly difficult to procure
the up-to-date consular documentation.

In the Ministerial Decree signed on May 9 th , 2020 it was decreed that the maximum value for the ISEE and ISPE indexes should be increased to € 23,626.32 and € 51,361.58 respectively. Starting from next year, further changes will also be introduced (see Article 5 about the quantification of scholarships (“IMPORTI BORSE DI STUDIO”) in the aforementioned call for applications):

– Students included in the ranking list for the academic year 2019-20 published on June 30 th , 2020,
who have not provided their self-declaration of residence in consideration and have therefore been
assigned their scholarships as commuter students, will be allowed to apply for confirmation not
only of their scholarship but also of their accommodation.

– Students who could not be granted their due accommodation at Collegio Einaudi due to the
lockdown will also be allowed to apply for confirmation of said accommodation, granted they are
assigned accommodation at the same structure for the academic year 2020-21.

– Given the present uncertainties over the organization of future international exchange programmes
due to the possibility of new emerging healthcare crises, the Call for Applications 2020-21 will
not include rules and regulations governing the additional contribution of international mobility to
projects starting in the academic year 2021-22. This will instead be disciplined by a different,
specific call for application expected to be approved and published in March 2021.