ISEE Parificato and DSU Scholarship in Italy 2026/27: Who Needs What

Start here, because the answer decides whether you need a CAF at all for tuition. The table gives the route each university publishes for 2026/27, for students whose family income is abroad.

Where your university or scholarship body asks for a CAF certificate, use the CAF it names. Padova accepts only its convention CAF (for the scholarship); ERSU Catania accepts only the CAF it has chosen (CAF UIL); DiSCo Lazio excludes an ISEEUP from a CAF outside its convention. Tor Vergata accepts any CAF in Italy. Book the way the body says: Padova by upload on the CAF portal, DiSCo in person at a convention CAF.

The foreign part of the figure combines income with 20% of foreign assets (DPCM 159/2013, art. 8). How buildings abroad are valued depends on the body: Pavia, Padova and ER.GO use a conventional €500 per square metre, so their property certificates must give the area, while Bergamo asks for purchase or market values. A zero value is refused at Tor Vergata, and DiSCo does not accept a family income of zero (with exceptions such as particularly poor countries and international protection). Where a fee is stated, the CAF service is free to the student: Padova, Genoa, DiSCo's convention CAFs and ERSU Catania's CAF UIL all say so.

Know which date counts for a late fee. At Genoa it is the date you sign, not the date the CAF sends the certificate; other universities set their own rule, so finish the documents and any benefits application by the deadline itself.

For the ordinary assessment of foreign income, bodies ask for certificates issued by the competent authorities: family composition, the gross income of each family member, property, bank balances (Padova also wants the annual average balance) and other financial assets, plus certificates of no income or no property where that applies. DiSCo, ER.GO and Pavia refuse affidavits and self-declarations; Bologna's fixed-fee declaration and a few narrow exceptions follow their own rules. Use your body's complete checklist. Translation into Italian is the rule; Campania's CAF flyer stresses that this applies even to documents already in English. Which year? It depends on the body: Padova's ordinary ISEE parificato issued in 2026 uses 2024 income; Bologna, Pavia and Bergamo's CAF ask for 2025.

India, Pakistan and Türkiye are not on the 2026/27 list of particularly poor countries (DM 176 of 24 February 2026). Some university and CAF pages still cite older decrees, so read the date of the list you are shown.

Every main 2026/27 application window in the table below closed before 20 October 2026; some calls let students apply before admission. For students who applied on time, several bodies still accept the ISEE parificato or documents later. We found no special late window after the IMAT ranking: the late medicine windows are for the Italian-language "semestre filtro" route.

For a student classified as "fuori sede" under the call, the base annual value of the grant is €7,171.11 in Campania, Marche, ER.GO and the Sicilian ERSUs, and €6,571.11 plus two free meals a day in Lazio; the actual award and the cash part depend on the ISEE band, increases, and any housing and meals provided. First-years are usually paid in parts, and some calls pay only after exams: ERDIS Marche pays non-EU first-years the first instalment only once they earn the required credits, unless they give a guarantee or their family filed an Italian tax return for 2024. A scholarship application does not count as proof of funds for the visa until the award is stated.

For 2027/28, plan backwards. In 2026/27 some windows opened in early June (ERSU Palermo on 5 June, DiSCo on 10 June) and others later, and in Liguria and Tuscany waiting for an admission test result did not extend the deadline. Our advice is to have the family's documents legalised and translated by May.

Apply within 8 working days of entering Italy. Take the yellow-band kit from a post office, fill in and sign the form, and attach the passport copies, the course certificate stamped by the consulate when the visa was issued, a copy of insurance against illness or accidents valid in Italy for the whole permit, and the payment receipt; hand it in, unsealed, at a "Sportello Amico" post office and show your passport. The post office gives you a receipt, which lets you stay in Italy while the permit is made, and a summons to the Questura for photos and fingerprints. Issue takes about 60 days on average.

Some pages quote a single "€70.46"; that is the card plus the contribution only. The stamp and the post office fee come on top.

If you applied for a scholarship on time, keep meeting your body's remaining deadlines (for example 10 December 2026 in Lazio, 31 March 2027 in Campania). If you missed the ordinary application deadline, the calls show no special reopening for IMAT admissions (some accept the transfer of an application made in another region: Campania until 31 March 2027, if it was made by Campania's own deadline of 10 September 2026), and the tuition route of your university (Step 1) is what you can still act on this year: Torino gives 30 days from admission (from 2 November) to request the reduction, and Pavia 15 days from enrolment. The ministry's circular for 2026/27 says a later note will set out how international students enrol in Medicine; we did not find that note on 20 October 2026, so check MUR and your university's current instructions. The national outer deadline for 2026/27 degree-course visa applications is 30 November 2026.