Survival handbook
Health assistance
EU citizens: in order to have access to public health care in Italy, you must have your EU form which extends to health care abroad.
Non EU citizens: you should provide yourself with a private international insurance and bring with you a health insurance total coverage certificate translated into Italian and certified by an Italian Consulate (for stay permit also).
Everyone: as an exchange student at SAA you will have right to discount for general and specialist medical examinations at the following University Medical Centre:
Centro di Medicina Preventiva - (SUISM)
Scuola Universitaria Interfacoltà in Scienze Motorie
Piazza Bernini 12
Ground floor (in the courtyard)
tel. +39 011.74.11.711
fax +39 011.74.11.798/
+39 011.74.11.768
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 8.15-19.00.
http://www.suism.unito.it/do/home.pl
Insurance
We expect all exchange students to be covered by their home university with a personal liability and accident insurance for the period they spend at our institution. Please note that SAA's insurance covers you only for damages which may be referable to SAA's liability and not for events resulting from different, unknown or unplanned causes.
Telephone
It is not necessary to have a landline telephone during your stay in Italy and you should consider that the minimum contract is for 1 year so if you are renting a flat, you need the permission of your landlord. To get the line open you have to wait at least 10 days. You also have to pay a fixed price each month which costs about €15 even if you don't use it.
Other options are to buy pre-paid cards for public telephones or to use a mobile phone and buying an Italian pre-paid card for it. If you use public telephones, you can buy phone cards for €5, €10 or €15 at any tobacconist, newsagent or in some bars. If you have a mobile phone and you choose to buy a prepaid card, you will have the possibility to call abroad and to receive calls at a good price.
The main Italian phone companies:
TIM (www.tim.it)
WIND (www.wind.it)
VODAFONE (www.vodafone.it)
TRE (www.tre.it)
Public transport
You can not buy tickets on the bus in Italy. You have to buy them from tobacco stores.
If you are under 25 years old, you can get a discount from a monthly ticket (18€) (ask for an abbonamento mensile studenti). With monthly ticket you must always carry the form that you will get from SAA. Once you get this form you have to go to the tobacconist and buy a discounted ticket.
If you want to know something more about how to go around in the city, see the website www.comune.torino.it/gtt, where you will find all the prices of the tickets, including student passes, the routes of the buses with their maps attached and everything you need.
Travel documents
Passengers must board public transport with a valid travel document; passengers must not dispose of the document during the trip and show it to GTT inspectors upon request. The travel document must not be defaced in any way.
Ordinary ticket - € 1,50
Valid for 90 minutes from when first punched (only punch the ticket once, on the first vehicle boarded) on metropolitan lines and on city rail links along GTT suburban lines. By punching the ticket a second time within the 90-minute timeframe, users can continue their journey as far as the time terminus using the same vehicle.
Booklet of 15 ordinary city - € 17,50
Each ticket, used separately, is valid for 90 minutes; user procedure is detailed above.
All-day city ticket - € 5,00
It can be used on metropolitan lines and on the city rail links along GTT suburban lines. It must be used for 24 hours from when punched on board the first vehicle taken.
All-day city shopping ticket - € 3,00
Valid for any 4-hour period on metropolitan lines and on the city rail link along GTT suburban lines from punched (at the beginning of the first ride) between 9 am and 8 pm. It can be used at weekends and on public holidays.
Transport Phone Number: 800-019152