The Italian language and culture teaching activities proposed by the Language Skills Development Sector (henceforth SSCL) are aimed at:

• International students enrolled at the University of Genoa in degree courses IN ENGLISH who do not have an Italian course already scheduled in their study plan and students IN INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
  • International students enrolled at the University of Genoa in degree courses in English and who do not have an Italian course already scheduled in their study plan may attend an Italian course reserved for them, information about which can be found on the page
    https://clat.unige.it/italiano_dottorandi_mastercourses
     
  • Students on International Mobility (Erasmus and other mobility projects - Cinda, etc.) can find information on the Italian courses reserved for them at the page
    https://clat.unige.it/Incoming
     
• International students of the CdL IN ITALIAN enrolled for the first time in the a.y. 2025/2026

Consult the dedicated section: Italian courses for international students with O.F.A.

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• International students with a foreign qualification and CDL IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Students with a foreign qualification enrolled in three-year or master's degree courses at the University of Genoa taught in Italian must take a Italian language proficiency test

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Students enrolled at UniGe by 30 November 2025

Dates will be communicated in December 2025
The Italian courses for international students enrolled in degree courses taught in Italian are reserved exclusively for those who meet these requirements:

• have achieved level A2 but not B2 in the tests given in the autumn session of the TEST TE.L.E.MA.CO. (September - November 2025) (see the dedicated session: Test of knowledge of the Italian language)
• has enrolled (i.e. completed enrolment) in the first year in the academic year 2025/26 by 30 November 2025. meets these requirements:

Only students who meet these requirements receive an email from the SSCL (clat@unige.it) with instructions on how to attend the teacher-led Italian course in which they have been placed on the basis of their results in the B2 test.

The courses last40 hours or 80 hours (depending on the results of the test) and attendance is compulsory: you must attend at least 50% of the hours to be admitted to the final exam.
You can attend the Italian course with a teacher only once and exclusively in the year of enrolment: no course is offered to students repeating the first year.

As already mentioned, students who do not pass the exam that concludes the course will retake the Italian test starting on 25 June 2026 and, if they do not pass it again, on the dates listed in the dedicated session: Calendar of Italian tests for the a.y. 2025/26
Approximately ten days before the date of the test, the SSCL sends an email to students invited to take the test: to find out if you are among those invited, write to the Welcome Office: sass@unige.it
 

Students enrolled in UniGe after 30 November 2025

Students enrolled in Unige after 30 November 2025

Students enrolling at the University of Genoa (i.e. completing enrolment) after 30 November 2025 may only request the activation of an online Italian course (self-study and without a teacher) at B1 or B2 level (based on the score obtained in the B2 test) by writing to clat@unige.it
The online course is activated exclusively at the student's request.
Students who have enrolled after 30 November 2025 can retake the Italian test from 25 June 2026; if they fail, they can take it on the dates listed in the dedicated session: Calendar of Italian tests for the academic year. 2025/26

Approximately ten days before the date of the test, the SSCL sends an email to the students invited to take it: to find out if you are among those invited, write to the Welcome Office: sass@unige.it

All students with O.F.A. in Italian will be able to take the first-year exams, but they will not be able to enrol in the second year until they have passed the Italian B2 test.

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For course information: 
CLAT Contact - clat@unige.it 

For administrative information: 
College office