Tuition Fees and Scholarships

Tuition Fees and Scholarships

The tuition fees depend on the student’s economic situation (if already financially autonomous) or their household (whether they live in or outside Italy).

Detailed Information about fees, methods of payment, tax discounts, scholarships, and more can be found on the University page https://www.unipr.it/en/borse-studio-agevolazioni, or you can write to sertasse@unipr.it.

How to Apply
Applications for both tuition fee reductions (“Application for Personalized University Contribution”) and ER.GO scholarships (“Benefits in Competition”) must be submitted online through the ER.GO portal. Please mind the strict deadlines.

Required Documentation for tax reduction/Scholarship (Students with income and/or assets abroad only): https://www.er-go.it/international-students/how-to-apply

Official Guides & Resources

Note that there are deadlines to get ErGO benefits. See more at Er.go webpage.

Useful Information

Students can apply for partial or total fee exemptions based on their economic status. We report here some useful information.

  1. Fee Exemptions: Students can apply for partial or total tuition fee exemptions based on their economic status.
  2. Minimum Payment: The minimum mandatory fee per year is €156, which covers the regional tax. More info at this page.
  3. Economic Assessment: Your financial status is determined exclusively by the ISEE document. Please, contact sertasse@unipr.it for more information on how to get the ISEE certification.
  4. House surface: when officially declaring your house/shop surface area, you must use square meters (m^2) rather than square feet, as ER.GO may reject documents listing only square feet.
  5. Tax Reduction Guarantee: if you apply and qualify for an ER.GO scholarship but do not ultimately receive it, you remain fully entitled to the university tax reduction based on your certified family income, keeping your minimum annual fee at the €156 regional tax.
  6. Credentials: International students must use UNIPR ESSE3 logins (as explained here).
  7. Deadlines: Pay attention to the deadlines indicated on the Er.go website, usually set at the beginning of November. Late applications will be rejected. Applications usually open at the beginning of July.
  8. Funding eligibility: The ER.GO scholarship is strictly income-based and first-come, first-served for the first year, requiring academic merit only for subsequent renewal.  For alternative merit-based options, visit esteri.it for programs like “Invest your Talent in Italy“.
  9. University Contact: If you need help from the University of Parma on benefits matters, please contact  “U.O. Contributi, Diritto allo Studio e Benessere Studentesco“.
  10. More information: available at the “ERGO benefits and scholarship” page of the University of Parma.
  11. Important note: If you are eligible for an ERGO scholarship/housing, your eligibility becomes active only after you matriculate and pay the regional 156Eur tax. After that, you will receive in your ESSE3 self-management web page notice of housing and scholarship assignment.

If you still need more explanations on ERGO related topics, please check the ERGO contacts at https://www.er-go.it/contatti