POS. SeSt&SDG/VF/me Decree n. date THE RECTOR IN COMPLIANCE WITH the Law 9 May 1989 and subsequent amendments IN COMPLIANCE WITH the current Educational Regulations of the University approved on 17 Jan 2018 and enacted with the DR n. 200 dated 4 Apr 2018 by the Col- legial Governing Bodies. IN COMPLIANCE WITH the current University Three-Year Planning A.Y. 2021/2023 approved on July 26th and 27th by the Collegial Governing Bodies. IN COMPLIANCE WITH University Three-Year Planning A.Y. 2019/2021 approved on 11th Feb- ruary 2020 by the Collegial Governing Bodies. ACKNOWLEDGED The approval of the following strategic targets and related actions to perform and indicators to reach: Target O.D.8 Strengthening of the Courses Internationalisation – ACTION 3 International Students At- traction; 3.1 Publication of calls; Target O.D.2 Be the protagonist of an international dimension. ACKNOWLEDGED the need for the institution to proceed with the selection of applicants in order to assign 20 scholarships for international students, extra-EU, which will enrol at the first year of a Bachelor’s degree or a Master’s Degree, held in English language; HAVING ASCERTAINED that these actions have been approved already and are part of the Three- Year Planning 2021/23 and that the link to the Universitaly platform, useful for students who want to enrol, is active already, for all Italian universities, for which the delay in the issuing could cause damage to the University Parthenope itself. HAVING ASCERTAINED the informative note sent by the Vice- Rector for Internationalization Prof. Sampagnaro, via e-mail, on April 19th 2022; HAVING CONSULTED the Internationalisation Vice-Rector, Professor Gabriele Sampagnaro; HAVING CONSULTED the Executive for Student Services and Directorate -General Support. DECREES Is released the following CALL FOR APPLICATIONS TO OFFER 20 EXTRAORDINARY STUDY GRANTS FUNDS TO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS HAVING NON-EU CITIZENSHIP, NON-RESIDENT IN ITALY WHICH WILL ENROL AT UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES “PARTHENOPE” IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE FOLLOWING BA AND MA COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH IN THE A.Y. 2022/2023 Definitions Pursuant to this call, the following terms shall be understood as indicated: • University: The University of Naples “Parthenope” • academic qualifications: Bachelor's degree, Master’s degree, PhD. • student: a person enrolled in a study programme at the university. • credits: the university credits provided for by Ministerial Decrees no. 509/1999 and no. 270/2004. • eligible: students who meet the income and merit requirements for admission to the scholarship assign- ment rankings. • beneficiary: student who is awarded the scholarship. Art. 1 Subject, amount, and duration The competition calls for the assignment of 20 university scholarships, international mobility grants and Bachelor and master’s degree prizes is open to students who will enrol in a bachelor or master’s degree program held in English, as defined below at the University of Naples “Parthenope” A.Y. 2022/2023. All students who have non-EU citizenship are considered international, including Italian citizens with cit- izenship in a non-EU country, and who have obtained the qualification valid for access to a Bachelor or Master’s degree course in Italy. Students of any nationality are qualified as international, if the titles required for admission to the chosen BA/MA programs were obtained outside the Italian education system. By “matriculation”, it is meant the first enrolment at the first year of a study course. Enrolments in the following years,changes among courses and transfers to other universities, are not intended as matricula- tions. University of Naples “Parthenope” grants twenty (20) scholarships, each one amounting to € 2000,00 before taxes and any other duties or fees applicable according to Italian laws. The Scholarship is granted for one (1) academic year and will be paid in one single payment. Beneficiaries will be exempted from the payment of the tuition fees for the academic year 2022/2023, except for the regional and the stamp duty. The 20 scholarships are related to the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees Programs reported in Table A (4 scholarships for each program). TABLE A MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAM CLASS NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS Applied Computer Science LM-18 4 Fashion, Arts and Food Management LM -77 4 Management Engineering LM-31 4 Marketing and International Management LM-77 4 Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration L-18 4 Art.2 Requirements To be included in the ranking , applicants for scholarship must: • hold a citizenship in a non-EU country; • not be resident in Italy; • have obtained a foreign academic qualification equivalent in level, type, content, and academic rights (access to further courses), to the Italian academic qualification required for access to the chosen study programme; • have never been enrolled in Bachelor's, Master's, or single-cycle degree courses at University of Naples “Parthenope” previously; • have an adequate knowledge of the English language; • have curricular requirements and adequate personal preparation; • have pre-enrolled at the University through the Universitaly website and must have obtained a letter of admission for enrollment from the Student Secretariat; At any time, and by adopting a reasoned provision, the University “Parthenope” can exclude applications from candidates who do not meet the requirements of the call. Art.3 Application Application instructions can be found on https://international.uniparthenope.it/tuition-fees-and- scolarships/. The deadline for the application is July 7th 2022 at midnight (CET). Candidates are strongly recommended to prepare the required documents in advance. To complete the application, candidates must upload the following documents: 1. Copy of passport (only pages relating to personal data); 2. Copy of the degree title or certificate of enrollment certifying the expected graduation date (if the document is not in English, an official translation in Italian or English is required) 3. Certificate of the study plan showing the list of exams taken, grades, range of minimum and maximum grades, possibly GPA (if the document is not in English, an official translation in Italian or English is required). 4. Curriculum vitae in English drawn up according to the European format https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/documents/curriculum-vitae; 5. Certificate of knowledge of the English language; 6. Statement of Purpose (in English), in which the candidate argues and justifies his/her enrolment at University of Naples Parthenope (max 1500 words); 7. Any other document that the candidate considers useful for the assessment, including the Declaration of Value or certificate of comparability of the qualification, Masters, Summer Courses, Workshops, work experiences, etc .; 8. Letter of admission (Lettera di idoneità alla immatricolazione) issued by the University of Naples “Parthenope”. Candidates are also required to register and authenticate themselves on the ESSE3 platform by creating an account through the following link: https://uniparthenope.esse3.cineca.it/AddressBook/ABStartProcessoRegAction.do;jsessionid=D8C B44EC4C32BA4340814A7630C892F2 .esse3-uniparthenope-prod-04? cod_lingua = eng Art.4 Selection Criteria 1. A special Admission Committee will be nominated by the Rector. The Committee will certify the regularity of the applications and will evaluate curricular requirements and personal preparation of the suitable candidates only. 2. To each applicant, the Committee will give a score for a maximum of 100 points as- signed based on the criteria outlined in the table below (TABLE B) 3. The Committee draws up a ranking of possible beneficiaries for each course. 4. Applicants will be considered as eligible if their score will be equal to or higher than 30/100. 5. In the case of parity, the younger candidate will prevail over the older. 6. In case the number of allotments will be lower than that number of available scholar- ships, by compensation, additional scholarship could be assigned to the study course which will have more eligible beneficiaries than the scholarships assigned originally 7. Once the assessment step will have been completed, the Committee will transfer the results to the office in charge for the publication on the website international.unipar- thenope.it. TABLE B PARAMETERS SCORE MIN MAX Curriculum studiorum; marks, GPA, postgraduate courses, international mobility, work experiences and other relevant extra-academic activities. 0 50 Relevance between the study programme and the previous educational path 0 20 Cover letter: clarity of exposition, motivation, general/specific characteris- tics of the study plan, ability to write in English language, uniqueness. 0 30 Total Score 0 100 Art.5 Incompatibility The students who benefit or have already benefited from another scholarship provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) will not be eligible for the call. Art.6 Acceptance of the scholarship Each beneficiary will receive a communication in the same e-mail box indicated during the submission of the request. In order to accept the scholarship, beneficiaries must reply to the e-mail to the scholarships.international@uniparthenope.it, within 10 days from the date of notification of the granting of the scholarship, under penalty of exclusion. The scholarship will be paid only if the successful candidate is admitted to the Degree Course and has fully completed the enrollment within the terms allowed for the Academic Year 2022/23. Art.7 Loss and revocation Foreign students who need an entry visa for Italy must also obtain this entry visa and, after arriving in Italy, apply for a residence permit for study purposes. The scholarship will be revoked whether the entry Visa request will be rejected or if beneficiaries do not submit a request for a residence permit The right to the scholarship is lost if: - The student incurs disciplinary sanctions higher than written censorship, for infractions committed against the University; - The student withdraws from studies or transfers to another university during the academic year 2022/2023. - The University verifies the untruthfulness of the data declared by the student Art.8 Payment and Scholarships Maintenance Requirements Students who resulted as “eligible” will have to communicate their bank account details to Student Secretariat , in order to enable the refund of the university tuition fees, as well as the payment of the balance of the scholarship for the admissible students who resulted BENEFICIARY. The scholarships will be disbursed in 1 installment by bank transfer to a bank account, or prepaid card, with an Italian IBAN in the name or joint name of the beneficiary student only if the payment status of each student will be regular. The installment, of 2000 euros, will be paid within June 2023 The ranking is published in the University Notice Board https://international.uniparthenope.it/tuition- fees-and-scolarships Art. 9 Scrolling of ranking position In case a beneficiary rejects or does not complete the matriculation the list will be scrolled and the ranking position will vary in order to give the possibility to other eligible students in the ranking list to become beneficiary according to their total score. Art. 10 Responsible for the procedure The responsible for the procedure is MARIALAURA ELIANI, International Affairs Office e-mail: scholarships.international@uniparthenope.it tel: +390815475864 Art.11 Information notice on the protection of personal data (eu regulation 2016/679 GDPR) University of Naples “Parthenope”is the controller of the personal data processing. Internal and external people have been appointed as regards to this issue. A Data Protection Officer (D.P.O.) has also been appointed and is available at privacy@uniparthenope.it. Art.12 Publicity This call for scholarships is published and accessible on the Official Website of the University https://in- ternational.uniparthenope.it/tuition-fees-and-scolarships/ Art. 13 Language The original version of this call has been written in Italian language and this translation is only meant for informative purposes; for the resolution on any dispute and for each legal effect the only one to be taken into consideration is the Italian one. For anything not expressly indicated please refer to the University regulation for each topic. THE RECTOR prof. Alberto Carotenuto