The public record
What changed, and when
Every correction on this site, with what the page used to say. Every addition and removal. And every official page the weekly source watcher saw change, once a person has read the difference and updated the site.
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- official pages watched every week
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- corrections, shown with what they replaced
- Fri, 25 September 2026
- last reviewed reading of the sources
October 2026
ESU housing is its own application
The housing guide said ESU beds were given out through the same competition as the regional scholarship. They are not: housing has its own call, applied for on ESU's Sportello Studente, with deadlines in August. The guide now says so and shows this year's dates.
It used to say
Places are allocated through the same competition as the regional scholarship.The Orto Botanico's full price, and its new website
A full ticket now costs €15, from 1 September 2026. UNIPD students still go in free. The garden has moved to a new official website, and our link now points there.
It used to say
Full price for everyone else is €10.Student perksOrto Botanico di Padova, Università degli Studi di Padova
ESU residence rents, from ESU's October list
ESU republished its rents in October. Every price on the residence finder was compared with the new list: five residences now offer a single room at €260 a month to students who do not qualify for the scholarship, and Rovigo Duomo no longer lists single rooms. A guesthouse ESU no longer lists was removed.
The CAF's address and hours, health insurance that qualifies, barbers
The ISEE guide now shows where the CAF for UNIPD students is, with directions, and when its desk and phone line are open. The health-cover guide lists what a private policy needs for the permit, and the cheaper option many students use. The barbers page lists barbers with the prices their booking pages show, and the haircut request now comes with its English meaning. Past deadlines are now marked as passed.
ISEE and benefitsHealth coverBarbersUniversità degli Studi di PadovaUniversità degli Studi di Padova
The €700 SSN fee, checked against the law itself
The university's page on long stays no longer gives the fee, so the figure is now checked against the immigration law, which sets it at no less than €700 a year for a study permit.
Health coverNormattiva, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato
For everyone who studies in Padova
The site now describes itself as what it has become: la piazza degli studenti di Padova, for students from another continent, another region or the next town. With it: a calculator for the average you need to graduate with 110 (also in Italian), announced transport strikes read live from the Ministry's list, a page on keeping a bike, and a place for seniors' advice.
Quanto mi serve per il 110?Transport strikesBikesMinistero delle Infrastrutture e dei TrasportiTrenitaliaComune di Padova
Security updates, and a way to tell us what is wrong
The framework the site runs on was updated after security fixes were published for it. Every page now asks whether it was useful, in one tap, and reports to the team when it breaks in someone's browser. Neither identifies anyone.
September 2026
Help, now: what to do when something has gone wrong
The numbers first, then one situation at a time: someone hurt, a doctor at night, robbed, lost documents, not okay, threatened. It also says what the Region says about 112 in Veneto: the single emergency centre is not switched on yet, so a 112 call reaches the Carabinieri, and 118 is the direct line for an ambulance.
Help, nowRegione del VenetoAzienda ULSS 6 EuganeaDipartimento per le Pari OpportunitàPolizia di Stato
Health, exams, phone, work, second-hand, eating out, barbers
Seven short pages for daily life, each with the three things to know in one minute: which door to knock on when you are ill, how exams and grade refusal work (with an average calculator), getting an Italian number, work on a study permit (with an email to a professor in formal Italian), the city's markets by day, how an Italian bill works, and a haircut in Italian.
Seeing a doctorExamsWorkAzienda ULSS 6 EuganeaRegione del VenetoUniversità degli Studi di Padova, School of PsychologyUniversità degli Studi di Padova, Department of Economics and ManagementComune di Padova
Queues, right now
A board where students at the Questura, the university desks and the mensas report how long the queue is, in one tap and anonymously. It switches on with student accounts.
An accessibility and speed audit of every page
Every page checked against WCAG 2.2 AA in both themes, and every problem found fixed. Pages now load a fraction of the fonts and script they did: the home page's largest paint on a phone went from about ten seconds to about three.
When to start renewing a permit
The university's current renewal page says to start from three months before the permit expires. The renewal guide and the fact table now say so.
It used to say
2 months before expiryGuides for the second half of a degree
Taxes if you worked, family visits, graduating, leaving Italy properly, and reading an Italian rental contract, plus a rewritten renewal guide and a yearly ISEE step. Sixteen new official sources, among them the Agenzia delle Entrate's 2026 tax instructions and the Comune di Padova's own student contract.
What happens if, and what a month costs
Four situations people panic about, each with the calm fact first. And a monthly budget built from the university's cost-of-living figures and the fact table.
What happens ifWhat a month costsUniversità degli Studi di Padova
The quartieri's real borders
The map's neighbourhoods are now drawn with the official borders the national statistics office publishes, instead of circles around each rione.
An offices directory, and a free Italian school
Nine offices, each checked on its own page: SAOS, the Welcome Unit, Student Records, the health registration desk, inclusion, ESU, the Questura, the Anagrafe and the tax code. And Liberalaparola, the free evening school at CSO Pedro, among the Italian courses.
OfficesLearn ItalianUniversità degli Studi di PadovaComune di Padova, Padova Per
The work-hours planner
It planned what your employer already decides. The legal limits on a study permit stay on the Living page.
Every ESU residence
Thirty residences and three guesthouses, with ESU's 2026/27 rents by status and room, read from ESU's own table.
The source watcher started
Every Monday it re-reads every official page the handbook relies on and flags any that changed, moved or disappeared. A person reads each difference before anything on the site changes.
The health service fee for students
Voluntary SSN registration costs €700 a year since the 2024 budget law. Almost every guide online still quotes the old figure.
It used to say
€149.77 a year
No official page change has been recorded here yet. The watcher reads every source each Monday; a change it finds is listed here once a person has read the difference and updated the site. How we verify