Foreign citizen must be covered by health insurance. If you are a European citizen, conditions may depending on your country of origin. Please check your country's Embassy web site.
In Italy you can access the National Health Service (SSN) in different ways depending on the reason for your stay. For PhD students the registration is on a voluntary basis through the payment of an annual flat-rate contribution.
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Otherwise you are free to take out a private health insurance.
To deal with the increase in the cost of joining the National Health Service, the University has signed an agreement for European and non-European PHD students’ health coverage, with Europ Assistance, an insurance company.
The policy, which can be subscribed at an individual annual cost of € 500,00, provides for the reimbursement of medical expenses up to a maximum of € 30.000,00. The territorial extension is Italy and the Schengen Area.
The policy has an annual duration, possibly extendable and gives the right to the issue of a residence permit, allowing you to benefit from the following services:
- 24/7 telephone medical consultation (in Italian and/or English),
- Reimbursement of medical expenses with or without hospitalization, with the possibility of being taken care by the Company;
- Sending a doctor or an ambulance to Italy;
- Report from a specialist doctor;
- other medical and health care services better specified in the attached information dossier for which details will be indicated to anyone requesting it;
- transmission of a nominative declaration in English certifying Health Coverage plan subscription.
For further information on coverage, services and subscription, you can contact the insurance intermediary Fazzini Danilo & Milito Patrizia sas, which manages the Europ Assistance policy at the number: 3311538404 (ref. Silvia Cotronei / dedicated email: studenti.politecnico.eura@gmail.com )