Students

Thanks to the Erasmus + program, you can spend a period of study (from three to twelve months) or carry out an internship / traineeship (from two to six months) in organisations, companies, or institutes in countries of the European Union and even outside the EU.

During the Erasmus + study stay, you can attend university courses, obtaining credits for the exams and didactic activities carried out, or prepare the degree thesis.

The Erasmus Traineeship international mobility project allows you to carry out internships in companies, training and research centres located in one of the countries participating in the programme.

For more information on Erasmus+, calls for applications, and international agreements, please visit the dedicated page on the University’s website.

You can also spend a period of study abroad outside the Erasmus + Program by joining the Free mover initiative. This is an opportunity connected to your specific interests, regardless of the institutional exchanges already activated in the context of Erasmus. Both university students (outgoing Free-Mover students) and students from other universities (Visiting Students) can participate.

The "Free mover" project does not establish a minimum and / or maximum period of stay abroad and there are no deadlines for submitting the application.

In addition, the Free mover program for projects allows students to participate in group Free mover experiences abroad, taking part in educational and cultural exchange activities. Students are accompanied to foreign universities by a UPO faculty member.  

Learn more about the Free Mover programs on the dedicated page of the University’s website.

The academic cooperation agreement between the University of Eastern Piedmont  and the Université de Savoie Mont Blanc placed in Chambéry, makes it possible to issue double degrees.

Specifically, you will have the opportunity to spend a whole year in France, in a modern and student-friendly university faculty:

• in the third year of the three-year Bachelor’s in Modern Languages
• in the second year of the master's degree course in Languages, Culture and Tourism (code LM37)
• in the first year of the master's degree course in Modern, Classical and Comparative Philology
• in the third yeard of the three-year Bachelor’s in  Literature and humanities

It is an extraordinary opportunity for intercultural exchange and for the improvement of your French language skills and culture. A degree with binational value also allows you to obtain an important qualification which significantly increases the prestige of your curriculum and makes it attractive at international level.

For information, contact profs. Michele Mastroianni and Laurence Audéoud.

For each of the foreign languages taught, DISUM offers language courses provided by mother tongue teachers. The exercises and self-learning activities are aimed at achieving levels of mastery of the two languages you have chosen to study. 

The exercises relating to the learning of languages are preparatory to the language and linguistics exams and must be followed as indicated in the study plan.

Visit the page language self-teaching too.

Our Department offers two levels of Italian courses for foreigners: BASIC and ADVANCED.

Visit the page language self-teaching too.

The German-Italian e-tandem project is part of the international TAPP network, which connects native Italian students who study German as L2, with German mother tongue students learners of Italian as a foreign language. The participants in the project will organise periodic online meetings through digital platforms. The interactions will be conducted partly in German, partly in Italian. After the first meetings, unlimited from the point of view of the choice of discussion topics, the subsequent conversations will focus on topics defined by the teachers on the basis of issues (mainly topical) addressed in class. The project is based on two important principles:

• reciprocity: participants offer their partner adequate linguistic and cultural support; they must allocate the same time to each of the two languages
• autonomy in learning: each participant is responsible for their own learning process and independently determines their own objectives and methods

The German-Italian e-tandem represents an excellent opportunity to deepen the knowledge and competence of the foreign language and culture.

For more information, write to miriam.ravetto@uniupo.it

The international Trans-Atlantic & Pacific Project (TAPP) network was conceived and established in the academic year 1999-2000 at North Dakota State University (United States) with the aim of promoting joint teaching and research activities. In over two decades of activity, TAPP has brought together 48 universities in 20 countries and 5 continents, developing a complex network of bilateral projects of written production, translation of texts and pragmatic analysis of intercultural communication, using different didactic and scientific methodologies. The collaboration has allowed students to participate in realistic projects, promoting translation, language and communication skills in an intercultural perspective.

TAPP project coordinator for DISUM: prof. Laura Tommaso.

The TiLLiT project aims to promote the use of theatre practices in the teaching of foreign languages and is an educational activity recognised by the Department.

Every year, four groups of DISUM students - led by language instructors and assisted by the theatre professional, Mario Sgotto of the TamTam Association - stage a show of about 30-40 minutes in the languages we teach (English, German, French, Spanish), accessible to all.

In 2014 Tillit won the 15th edition of the European Language Label, the recognition by the European Union that is awarded every year to projects capable of giving a significant boost to language teaching, through innovations and teaching practices.

TiLLiT does not set out to be a theatre school in the strictest sense, but adopts some fundamental perspectives of the theatre: participation and activation of the students across the board; attention to expressing of language through the body, gesture, stage movement; the communicative relationship with the public to challenge the "barrier" of foreign languages

For more information, contact: Marco Pustianaz and Michaela Reinhardt.

• TILLIT website
• Watch the TILLIT trailer

Every year, the Department promotes "Travelling Disum: experiences and testimonies on activities abroad" with the aim of recounting study experiences carried out abroad, offering an open space for discussion and questions, also face-to-face with students.