Services and Facilities
The University of Catania and its partner institutions offer to the Erasmus students some services and facilities. Please refer directly to the office/institution providing service or facility.
Accommodation and Meals
E.R.S.U. and some partner providers offers to the Erasmus students the possibility to serch and book an accommodation. Moreover, the incoming students have the possibility to use the university canteen services. Please consult the link above to get detailed information.
Transport
Erasmus students can sign up for the integrated urban transport season ticket valid for three months at the discounted cost of 15 euros. To obtain the transport card, Erasmus students must contact the International Relations Unit to obtain additional information
IT Services
The IT Division University of Catania provides Erasmus incoming students with free WiFi account within the University of Catania structures and access to the students didactic platform (Studium Platform) and to laboratories. Please find here additional infos
Prevention and Risk Protection
According to Italian national regulations, the Prevention and Risk Protection division of the University of Catania provide information and/or training sessions on prevention and risk protection to all the Erasmus incoming students during the Welcome Day organized at central level or during specific sessions organized at department level. The health and safety information course at the University is available online within Smartedu student portal (login with Unict credentials). This compliance is mandatory by law and is also very useful for learning some simple measures of prevention and protection from risks in the university areas also depending on the different activities that each of you will have to carry out. Please have a look at the link above for more information and details.
School of Italian Language and Culture
The School of Italian Language and Culture is a Special Teaching Structure of the University of Catania to promote the historical and advanced knowledge of Italian Language and Culture for foreign students and workers. The courses offered to Erasmus incoming students are free of charges.
Disability Advisory Centre
The Disability Advisory Centre (CINAP) of the University of Catania welcomes students with disability and specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). From 1999 it is committed to improve the access of both undergraduate and postgraduate students to their courses, facilities, buildings and social integration.
Languages Centre
The Languages Centre (CLA) of the University of Catania promote foreign languages and is supported by the use of multimedia instruments.
Non-EU Students Support Service (Cultural Mediator)
The Cultural Mediation Service of the University of Catania offers to Non-EU students support for the completion of the necessary bureaucratic practices before and during their stay in Catania. Moreover, cultural mediation is an useful and necessary function to facilitate the integration process of foreign students. It is to be considered as a "bridge" between local institutions and students, thus fostering reciprocal knowledge of cultures, values, traditions, laws and social systems, in a perspective of interchange and mutual enrichment. Please click on the link above to find out specific information.
Libraries and Documentation Centre
The Library and Documentation Centre was created in 1992 to coordinate and develop the activities of the University Library System and aims at restoring and exploiting the historical, scientific and documentary heritage of the University of Catania.
European Documentation Centre
The European Documentation Centre Network (ECDs) was set up by the European Commission in 1963 with the purpose to identify the needs of researchers, students and citizens. Therefore, EDCs are contractually entitled to receive, free of charge, most publications of the European Communities institutions. There are now more than 600,00 such centres, mainly located in universities.
University Sport Centre (CUS)
CUS is a national association which has been operating for the last sixty years. Its main aim is to sustain the practising, promotion and subsequent growth of physical education and university sports activity, by organizing sporting events at local, national and international level.
Students associations supporting E+ & International programs
