Dear Colleagues, 
I'm happy to inform you that our Galilean School for Higher Education (SGSS) will offer 5 fellowships reserved to Foreign Students willing to enroll in any Master Program offered by our University. As you might know, our University is structured around the 3+2 Bologna system, and the present call is for the +2 (Master, in Italian LaureaMagistrale LM) biennial cycle. Any program is eligible, from humanities to sociology to sciences. What really matters is the high quality of the student, so we rely on your kind advice to spread the news among students or faculty you might consider interested. 
Too bad that the authorization to open the call came very late, so I send you this message before the official announcement is published on the web site of the School 

http://www.unipd.it/en/courses/galilean-school-higher-education

Applications should come as soon as possible, in order to complete the selection by mid-June. Selection will be based on records of previous University performance, recommendation letters and an interview e.g. via skype. 
I can anticipate that the privileges of the Galilean students are really appealing, from full tuition exemption, free lodging and meals, 2 air tickets, a generous allowance of cash for books and other material, dedicated courses and tutors, and so on. But of course we require very good and motivated students scoring among the top 5%. 
The students have to take courses. The dedicated courses, internal to the School, are in English. Many regular courses are also in English. At any rate, the school will provide a dedicate course for Italian, which is useful anyhow to live in Padova for 2 years. May be there are foreign student who would like courses in italian, e.g. for archeology or arts or italian literature. In conclusion, we are ready to solve the language issue to the satisfaction of the student. 
Please do not hesitate to write me for further details, if you have perspective candidates; again not only in Natural Sciences, even Medicine or Archeology or Literature, any topics taught in our University. 
Yours sincerely, 
Cesare


Prof. Cesare Barbieri
Senior Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University 
of Padua
vicolo Osservatorio 3, I-35122 Padova, Italy, tel:  +39049827-8211,-8221
Galilean School of Higher Education, University of Padua
Tel. +39049827-8938, -8969
Via Giovanni Prati 19, I-35122 Padova Italy
cell phone: +393351011959, e-mail: cesare.barbieri@unipd.it
personal Web page: http://www.astro.unipd.it/barbieri/index.html