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Borse per le Scuole di Specializzazione

Master's ScholarshipItaly · Rome

Sapienza University of Rome

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Sapienza University of Rome pays a scholarship under Italian Law 398/89 to students attending its specialisation schools in three areas: protection and management of cultural heritage, legal professions, and chemical risk assessment and management.

The award is not won through a separate competition. Sapienza allocates a fixed number of scholarships to each school every year, and the places go to the candidates ranked highest in that school’s own admission list.

Recipients are graduates enrolled in a two-year specialisation school in Rome. The scholarship runs for the full legal length of the course, provided the holder passes each year’s exams and stays under the income ceiling.

Benefits & funding

  • €6,715.00 gross for each year of the specialisation school’s legal duration.
  • Paid in two instalments per year: 60% on enrolment, 40% after passing the year’s final exam or all exams needed to enrol in the next year.
  • Exempt from personal income tax under Law 476/84 art. 4.
  • 23 scholarships across nine schools for the 2026/27 academic year, ranging from 1 place (Beni musicali) to 4 places (Beni archivistici e librari; Beni storico artistici).
  • Holders may not be assigned teaching duties.

Eligibility

  • Open to Italian and non-Italian citizens alike; the page states no nationality requirement.
  • The candidate must place high enough in the admission ranking of an eligible Sapienza specialisation school and enrol regularly.
  • Eligible schools: seven cultural-heritage schools (archaeology; architecture and landscape; archives and books; demo-ethno-anthropology; music; natural and territorial heritage; art history), legal professions, and chemical risk assessment and management.
  • Personal gross annual income must stay at or below €7,750 in the calendar year of greatest benefit; property income and recurring payments count towards that limit.
  • The candidate must never have held a scholarship for another specialisation school.
  • Continuing beyond the first year requires passing the annual final exam, or all exams needed to enrol in the following year, and enrolling in that year.

Application process

  1. 1
    Apply for and sit the admission examination of one of the eligible Sapienza specialisation schools.
  2. 2
    Enrol in the school after placing in a useful position in its admission ranking.
  3. 3
    The school registry sends the ranking to Sapienza’s Settore Diritto allo Studio, which emails the students in scholarship-winning positions.
  4. 4
    Return the scholarship acceptance declaration, self-certifying the income figure and that no other specialisation-school scholarship has been held or is held at the same time.
  5. 5
    Submit the first-instalment request form at enrolment, and the second-instalment form after passing the year’s exams.

Program timeline

  1. Revised scholarship regulation issued (Rectoral Decree 2825/2025).

    Oct 7, 2025

  2. Academic Senate resolution 90/2026 allocated 23 scholarships for the 2026/27 academic year.

    Sep 9, 2026

  3. Each academic year

    first instalment (60%) at enrolment; second instalment (40%) after the year’s exams.

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