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Orientamenti Festival

The Orientamenti Festival is Italy's largest event on orientation, training and work.

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When?
13, 14, 15 November 2024

Where?
Magazzini del Cotone, Porto Antico area of Genoa and online

To read the programme and to register go to the dedicated page

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Other orientation events

The University of Genoa participates in orientation fairs and exhibitions all over Italy.

InfoPoint

If you need support in choosing a course of study or information on enrolment, fees and benefits, hosting international students and more, come to the InfoPoint

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Open day and open week

Are you in your final years of high school and want to find out more about the university and its courses? During the open weeks and open days you can talk to course lecturers and student tutors, attend lectures and participate in presentations of the range of courses on offer, visit the departments and/or campuses.
In addition, you can take part in workshops on choosing a postgraduate course and the professions of the future.

Go to the page dedicated to the open days and open weeks of the Ateneo, the Ligurian Campuses and the UniGe Departments.

Individual interviews

To support you in your choice and orient you in your study path, the University of Genoa offers you the possibility of booking a free individual counselling session.

For information and bookings go to the individual counselling

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Orientation tests

Interest questionnaire

Fill out the questionnaire of interests that identifies your preferred professional activities and indicates the courses of study that prepare you for them, and thus supports you in your choice of faculty.

Useful sites to guide you in your choice

Learning to Orientate and Choose by AlmaLaurea

If you still have no clear ideas about your educational and professional future, AlmaLaurea can help you.
What is your dream job? Which degree course can help you get there? read here
Dictionary of professions Read here

Study pathways by Universitaly

To get to know the educational offer of all Italian universities

School Portal

If you are a high school teacher responsible for orientation, discover our initiatives on the Schools Portal

Parents' desk

If you are the parent of a prospective UniGe student, find out about the parent helpdesk

✅Guidance activities organised by the BSc in Computer Science

The orientation activities of this course are carried out by the Promotion, Orientation and Tutoring Commission.

Stage

Every year, the teachers of our course organise the Computer Science Internship, an event dedicated to high school students to introduce them to the study of Computer Science. The Internship lasts one week and takes place at our department, in Genoa in Valletta Puggia.

The Internship is organised in various complementary stages that include: 

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  • seminars by professors, researchers and experts
  • individual and  group work
  • coding and programming
  • learning through specific innovative didactics to improve personal skills and team building abilities
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These integrated activities allow participants to apply what they have learnt during the seminars and to develop their problem solving and collaboration skills within a team.

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Watch TeleGenova's coverage of the Informatica 2023 internship

telegenova service

Other activities

  • The realisation of PCTO and PCTO PNRR Future Project pathways, in addition to the specific internship at the Course of Study, aimed at students or entire classes of secondary schools, also in collaboration with other Departments of the School of Science MFN (https://alternanza-scuola-lavoro.unige.it)
  • Participation in events organised in secondary schools 
  • Seminar offerings in secondary schools (catalogue)
  • Organisation of the opening of some first-year lectures to high school students, by prior arrangement
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  • Organisation of initiatives approaching programming and computational thinking and computer science popularisation aimed at the first school cycle, as part of events in the area (Festival of Science) or aimed at specific schools. 

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  • PCTO and PCTO PNRR Future Project implemented:
    • Computer summer internship 18-20 June 2024 (11 hours Future Project for 50 students and 15 hours PCTO for another 50 third and fourth grade students from various schools in Liguria and lower Piedmont)
    • Informatics Internship (19-23 February 2024, 25 hours of which 11 hours Future Project): two fifth-year computer science classes from IIS Majorana Giorgi  Genoa.
    • BotBid from Botany to Big Data (8-9 February 2024, 11 hours Future Project) in collaboration with DIFI and DISTAV one third class of scientific high school of the Nuovo Polo Scolastico Finale Ligure.
    • Challenge to the last line of code with AI (5-9 February 2024) a third class  computer science at the IIS Colombo di Sanremo (35 hours of which 11 hours Future Project, at the institute except on 6 February when the class was hosted at the degree course venue).
  • Participations in events organised in secondary schools 
    • SaRò Liceo Da Vigo Nicoloso da Recco (21 December 2023),  Manuela Chessa's speech on "Virtual and augmented reality: current applications and possible developments".
  • Seminars in secondary schools
    • Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone: "Machines that see", at Einaudi Casaregis Galilei (22 May 2024)
  • Opening to high school students, upon reservation, of some lectures of the lectures on Computer Architectures, Algorithms and Data Structures, Calculus 1 (first year) 
  • Initiatives to introduce programming and computational thinking and to computer science popularisation aimed at the first school cycle
    • Detective Coding and Meet AI^2 workshops at the Science Festival, offered for the entire duration of the Festival (26 October-5 November)
    • The STEM week, at the Daneo primary school - Genoa (PLS interdisciplinary initiative, involving all the courses of study of Valle Puggia and all the classes of the school), with workshop activities also aimed at countering the gender imbalance https://life.unige.it/gang-delle-stem (8-14 March)

    • XRCoding: two third classes of the secondary school of the IC Molassana Genova were involved in coding and virtual reality activities for a total of 12 hours of activities  (4 April - 7 May 2024)
  • Do you want to contact us?

    If you would like to get in touch with us:

    Contact

    Student Orientation Services

    In-person counter and Virtual counter on appointment - Service suspended from July 21, 2023 to October 3, 2023

    Serviceby phone at 010 209 9690, Mondays and Fridays from 9 to 12

    Service email orientamento@unige.it