Feel Welcome: #FeelAtRome March, 13th 2018

Feel Welcome: #FeelAtRome

March, 13th 2018

International Student Welcome Week

• The organization of a Welcome Week is common practice in

many universities in Italy and abroad!

GOOD PRACTICES OF OTHER UNIVERSITIES

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CHALLENGES OF STUDYING ABROAD

• Bureaucratic Procedures

• Academic differences/Learning styles

• Overcoming the language barriers

• Feeling like an outsider

• Coping with cultural misunderstandings

• Being far from your family and from your friends

• Living alone

OPPORTUNITIES!

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PROBLEMS?

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• Organize an entire week dedicated to orientation

aimed at international students

• Centralize, coordinate and improve the activities

of different University Units (Erasmus Unit,

Erasmus Office at Faculty level,…., etc.).

• Ease the integration of foreign students

OBJECTIVES

• International Office

• Erasmus Office at Faculty level

• Buddies

• Student Associations (mainly ESN)

• Libraries

• Italian language courses Coordinators

Offices and Units involved

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Structure

DURATION: 5 Days

DAY 1

Plenary sessions

Rectorate Building, Aula Magna

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Other pictures…….


MAIN ACTIVITIES…..

– Coordination welcome week 2018

– Invitation speakers plenary and parallel sessions

– Space management

– Preparation student material (guides, student cards,

canteen cards, sim cards, etc.)

– Selection and training Buddies

– Coordination ‘fair’ and cultural events

UNITY IS STRENGTH…

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Day 1

- Students’ registration and welcome-kit distribution

Plenary: Welcome speeches:

• Eugenio Gaudio, Rector

• Luciano Saso, Deputy Rector for European University

Networks and Erasmus Coordinator

• Maria Ester Scarano, Sapienza International Office

Director

• Presentation of Sapienza and of admin. procedures

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Day 1

PRESENTATIONS

• Student testimonials

• Buddies Present Themselves

• Erasmus Student Network (ESN)

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Day 1

Contest

“Why Did You Choose Sapienza” - Award

Ceremony

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Day 1

Tour of the artistic and architectural highlights on

campus (in Italian and in English)

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Day 2

Get Involved! Fair:

EXHIBITORS (Cultural associations, AIESEC Roma

Sapienza - Association Internationale des Etudiants

en Sciences Economisques et Commerciales is a non-

profit, independent, apolitical, student organization,

ESN - Erasmus Student Network, IUC - University

Concert Institution, - Sapienza Merchandising, MuSa

- Music at Sapienza, Theatron - Ancient Theatre at

Sapienza)

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Day 2

Get Involved! Fair:

Workshops:

• Residence Permit: submitting an application,

• Healthcare;

• Exams: How they work and how to face them;

• How to get around Rome and Italy: local and

national transport;

• Housing: How and where to find it

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Get involved! fair

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Welcome sessions at the different Faculties of

Sapienza

•Welcome Speech;

•Presentation of the Faculty and its Departments;

• Presentation Degree-programme Directors +

contacts;

•Website of the Faculty and its Departments Exams

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Day 3

Day 3

- World Coffee Break

Guided tours of Faculties, by ‘Buddies’

•Departments

•Classrooms

•Libraries

•Study Rooms, etc.

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• Italian Language Test for students

• Guided tour of the Sapienza Botanical garden

Day 4

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• Open Rehearsal – MuSa: Classical Choir, MuSa

jazz

• Guided Tours of the city

Day 5

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• Stand of the Agenzia delle Entrate:

Get your tax code !

• Tandem project, picnic and happenings organized by

Erasmus Student Network

And….

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Welcome Week

• Erasmus Unit: [email protected]

• Facebook: Sapienza Exchange Students

• Instagram: sapienzainternationaloffice

Thank you for your kind attention

CONTACTS

Tiziana De Matteis

mailto:[email protected]

Feel Welcome: #FeelAtRome March, 13th 2018

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