Incoming mobility for Study

The Department created a network of Erasmus+ for study agreements that has developed over the years to a current number of 75 agreements, including agreements with partner universities outside Europe. 

These agreements make it possible to welcome a significant number of international students each year who spend part of their university career in Alghero. Erasmus incoming study mobility is the most numerous for our Department, thanks also to the KA171 International Credit Mobility Programme, which allows us to support the mobility of double degree students from Tunisia, and the new Blended Intensive Programme under which 20 students from France and Portugal were hosted this year.

The constant presence of international students at all levels of education fosters the creation of a multicultural environment within the Department that encourages local students to experience mobility abroad.

The Department of Architecture, Design and Town Planning offers three three-year graduate Bachelor level programmes:

• Architecture and design sciences
• Urban and landscape planning. Environmental project of cities and territories
• Design

Besides the Bachelor degree courses the Department offers two two-year Master level programmes in:

• Architecture
• Planning and policies for the City, Environment and Landscape

Furthermore, the Department offers a PhD programme:

• Dottorato in Architecture and Environment

Please note that only students coming from partner universities in the field of Design may have access to the courses of the Bachelor Degree in Design.

Each year the educational offer of the Department is approved by the Ministry of Education around the middle of June. Soon after the approval a course unit list in English and in Italian is shared with the Department incoming students together with the guidelines for the Online Learning Agreement definition.

For each year and each course, in the course unit list the first educational block refers to the project laboratory. The students cannot choose more than one project laboratory per semester and should they choose course units from different degree programmes or from different years of study, there may be timetable conflicts. At our Department attendance to at least 80% of each course is mandatory, therefore, overlapping may be an issue as students who do not meet the attendance requirements will not be admitted to the exams.

Also, it is most important to understand that it is not possible to choose single modules from an interdisciplinary Project Laboratory block/ course unit as the modules are almost always integrated.

For the definition and approval of the Online Learning Agreement, the students should contact the referent teacher for their University at our Department as described in the Referent Teacher List published on this page and also shared via email with our incoming students.

Details of each course can be found using a dedicated search tool. On the dedicated page, students can use the links at the top left to change the language (Italian/English).

Filters can be used to select the teaching activities of the degree course in which the student is interested, here are some guidelines for searching:

Academic year: 2025/2026

Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning

Course: Select your degree course according to the list below:

• [A183] L2: Scienze dell'architettura e del progetto (Bachelor level, isced code 0731) - 1st year
• [1212] L2: Scienze dell'architettura e del progetto (Bachelor level, isced code 0731) - 2nd and 3rd year
• [A184] L2: Urbanistica. progetto ambientale della città e del territorio (Bachelor level, isced code 0731) - 1st year
• [A145] L2: Urbanistica. progetto ambientale della città e del territorio (Bachelor level, isced code 0731) - 2nd and 3rd year
• [A182] L2: Design (Bachelor level, isced codes 0211, 0212, 0213) - 1st year
• [A144] L2: Design (Bachelor level, isced codes 0211, 0212, 0213) - 2nd and 3rd year
• [A185] LM: Architettura (Master Level, isced codes 0731, 0730) - 1st year
• [1235] LM: Architettura (Master Level, isced codes 0731, 0730) - 2nd year
• [A186] LM: Pianificazione e politiche per la città, l'ambiente e il paesaggio (Master Level, isced code 0731) - 1st year
• [1226] LM: Pianificazione e politiche per la città, l'ambiente e il paesaggio (Master Level, isced code 0731) - 2nd year

At the Department of Architecture, Design and Town Planning subjects are offered mainly in Italian. 
The knowledge at B1 level of the Italian or English language is recommended. A large majority of lecturers may help and share materials in English, but not all.

Exams are in Italian, but some Professors may allow students to take the exam in English. It is at the teacher's discretion.

The Department offers for its incoming students a dedicated free Italian for foreigner course for beginners each semester. The course is usually held online to allow the students to attend also before their arrival. The intensive 60-hours courses are held in September-October and in February-March at the beginning of the semesters. Five ECTS credits will be awarded upon successful completion of the course.

The self studenti uniss is the student portal where the students’ exams will be registered so that the Transcript of records may be issued at the end of the mobility.

After enrolment upon arrival, the self studenti uniss account as an incoming student will be activated.

It is important to login to the Self studenti uniss website https://uniss.esse3.cineca.it/ and change the password. 

This is an important step in order to activate the student’s account to all university online services.

The platform is also available through the MyUniss smartphone App available in the Google Play Store and the Apple App store. 

At the Department, lessons for the 1st semester normally run from the beginning of October to the end of January and for the 2nd semester they run from the beginning of March to the end of June. The exam sessions are held in the months of February, July and September for the whole month. For each course unit two exam dates are available in each exam session. Students who do not pass an exam on the first exam date can take the exam on the second exam date.

An academic calendar with the information related to the courses’ suspension during exams sessions and national holidays is available. Also, a lesson and exams timetable are available.

The lessons timetable is updated before the beginning of each Semester and possible variation are notified directly to the students.

Students may use the interactive lesson timetable through the Uniss.Orario app which is the official application of the lesson timetable of the University of Sassari and is accessible both on a computer and on mobile devices. Besides Italian, in the application it is possible to change the language settings to English, French, German and Spanish using the top right menu.

A search tool for the Exam timetable is also available online.

You need to select our Department from the menu  list ([C1] ARCHITETTURA, DESIGN E URBANISTICA (DIP)) and then proceed with the search by degree programme (Corso di studio), by Teaching activity (Attività didattica) or by Professor (Docente).

It is not possible to take exams outside of the fixed exam date.

The students must book their exams in advance, during the booking window available for each exam which is usually of around 2 weeks and closes a few days before the exam.

An online procedure for exam registration from the student database, Self Studenti Uniss is available.

Online exam registration (verbalizzazione online) is available for all full course units/subjects within the Syllabus of degree programmes offered at the University of Sassari.

Some activities such as some elective activities, summer schools and Italian as a foreign language courses cannot be registered online. 

Students should download the Mircosoft Teams App or go to the website www.office.com/student and log in using the following credentials:
username: your institutional e-mail address xxxxx@studenti.uniss.it
password: the password used to access Self Studenti.

Should there be problems logging in with these credentials, please access the Self Student and change the password, wait 30-60 mins and try again). In some cases, the alignment of credentials is not automatic.

Access to Teams is necessary to join the course Team via one of the following methods:
1. Registration through a unique code if users of the uniss organization
2. Registration as "guest" by invitation of the teacher if external users to the uniss organization

All the courses information and update are shared through Teams.

Another available platform for our Department students is the eUniss moodle platform.
To login to the eUniss platform the same username and password as for the Self studenti uniss should be used.

It is necessary to log into the Self studenti uniss website https://uniss.esse3.cineca.it/ and chang the password before logging into the eUniss platform https://elearning.uniss.it/

The Department resources can be found at the following page:

https://elearning.uniss.it/course/index.php?categoryid=1056

Once completed the log in to the eUniss platform, the 'Comunicazioni e avvisi' forum must be joined in order to get important updates from the Department by email:

https://elearning.uniss.it/mod/forum/view.php?id=43782

The students coming from Countries outside of the European Union, have to request a visa at the Italian Embassy/Consulate in their home Country.

Also, a registration to the Universitaly portal is required for the visa practice. 

Upon arrival and within 8 days of their arrival in Italy, the students coming from Countries outside of the European Union must apply for a permit of stay. 
In order to apply please follow the instructions at the following page