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It is unceasingly ranked in the top 10 European cities for quality of life. The sense research seminar series brings distinguished guests to Bologna from wideness Europe twice a week to engage with students in an informal setting. SAIS Europe is characterized by its international sense and close-knit polity of approximately 200 students, representing over 40 countries. Students get involved on campus by serving on student government, joining clubs and organizing study trips. Many moreover volunteer with local non-profit organizations. Welcome Student Activities Student Government Wellbeing and Support Living in Bologna Pre-term and Welcome Week Welcome Student Activities Student Government Wellbeing and Support Living in Bologna Pre-term and Welcome Week Welcome The SAIS Europe campus is located in Bologna, Italy, a medium-sized municipality characterized by both tradition and innovation. It is the perfect place to wits genuine, pure Italian living in a municipality that is moreover known for stuff unshut and welcoming to newcomers. Bologna’s inside location and highly ripened transit network make it a strategic gateway to wangle the rest of Europe and to neighboring regions such as North Africa and the Middle East. Student Activities The small scale and collegial undercurrent at SAIS Europe produce a tropical polity of students, sense and staff. When not in matriculation or studying, students may be found having lunch in the on-campus café with their professors, planning their next weekend getaway to a European capital, or gearing up for a soccer tournament with their Italian counterparts from the University of Bologna. Options for on-campus extracurricular activities abound. Students may segregate to serve on the student government, join the editorial workbench of the SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs, or participate in one of the many student-led groups organized virtually wonk concentrations, professional interests and personal hobbies. There are myriad opportunities for SAIS Europe students to interact with local students, including sports teams, musical ensembles, language exchanges and volunteer projects. Long-standing SAIS Europe traditions such as the yearly American Thanksgiving dinner and cohort trip to Austria for the Vienna Ball of Sciences introduce an international student soul to each other’s cultures and create special memories for each class. Student Government Early in the wonk year, students are invited to run for referendum to the five-member Student Government Association (SGA) at SAIS Europe. The SGA serves as the liaison between the student soul and administration, offering ideas for programming at SAIS Europe and chosing selected guest speakers for the sense research seminar series. The SGA ExecutiveWorkbenchmoreover manage a grant program to support clubs, matriculation trips, study treks, and internships. Students from all stratum programs are eligible to run for office at SAIS Europe. At the end of the year, a SAIS Europe representative is elected to serve on the SGA in Washington, DC the pursuit wonk year.   Wellbeing and Support Student Life Adapting to graduate school can be challenging and acclimating to a new culture adds spare elements of surprise. The Office of Student Life at SAIS Europe is your first point of contact to help you navigate your wits in the most healthy and successful manner possible. The Director of Student Life is a full-time student wires professional, misogynist to wordplay questions well-nigh life in Bologna, health insurance, resources for support and well-being, and getting involved on campus and in the community.Academic SupportSenseand administrators at SAIS Europe all have an unshut door policy and are readily misogynist to squire students as needed. Students receive wonk guidance from their prescribed sense counselor on campus as well as from their wonk program administrators on both sides of the Atlantic.Health Insurance Johns Hopkins University requires that all students have comprehensive health insurance. Students are automatically enrolled in the student health goody plan. However, students may waive enrollment in the school plan if covered by a plan that is comparable to that offered by the University. While in Bolonga, EU citizens may elect to waive the school's plan in favor of their own national health service.Health Services If you are in need of medical superintendency while in Bologna the Director of Student Life will connect you with towardly English-speaking specialists. In addition, a member of the Student Life staff is misogynist to trailblaze you to medical visits should you request this assistance. SAIS Europe has partnered with the University of Bologna’s CounselingPart-wayto provide services in English for SAIS Europe students.Disability AccommodationsJohns Hopkins SAIS is single-minded to providing all students with the opportunity to pursue excellence in their wonk endeavors. This includes supporting students with disabilities requiring special accommodations in vibrations with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Accommodations vary depending on disability, and are made misogynist through a joint effort between the SAIS Europe of Student Life and the university-wide Office of Disabilities Services.Johns Hopkins Student Assistance Program (JHSAP) JHSAP is a resource that can help you identify and manage challenging issues in healthy ways. Getting help is free, convenient, and confidential. JHSAP is prepared to help students navigate a variety of hair-trigger issues including slipperiness response, healthy relationship support, school-life welding coaching, and faculty/staff consultations. Additionally, the program provides educational workshop and short-term counseling services. These benefits are moreover misogynist to all enrolled students at SAIS Europe.Increasinglyinformation well-nigh the JHSAP program can be found here. Living in Bologna Bologna's three nicknames, "Bologna La Dotta, Bologna La Rossa and Bologna La Grassa" provide a good starting point for getting to know the city. Home to the oldest university in Europe, the University of Bologna's esteemed professors and 80,000 students energize an urban environment steeped in arts and culture, hence the nickname Bologna La Dotta or Bologna the Learned. The rosy Bolognese soil used for the city's foible roof tiles and colorful palaces is the unveiled rational overdue Bologna La Rossa or Bologna the Red, but residents know that this term moreover alludes to the city's political leanings. Beneath its raffish veneer, however, is a pulsing industry of small and medium-sized businesses supporting a upper standard of living. Bologna is unceasingly ranked in the top 10 European cities for quality of life. It is however, Bologna's reputation for spanking-new food, not its material wealth, that earned its reputation as Bologna La Grassa or Bologna the Fat. Widely considered Italy's gastronomical capital, the municipality hosts increasingly than 500 pizzerie, osterie, trattorie and ristoranti. Although most SAIS Europe students spend less than one year in Bologna, they wilt lifelong ambassadors of the municipality and maintain a deep connection to their unexplored home, returning as alumni to gloat matriculation reunions.Housing SAIS Europe students usually segregate to live together in apartments within the medieval municipality walls, commuting by foot or by velocipede virtually town. Students are responsabile for finding their own accommodations. Staff is misogynist to connect you to local agencies, property managers, and resources to make your search for housing as smooth as possibile. Travel At the crossroads of the national railway system, upper speed trains get you from Bologna to Florence in 30 minutes, to Milan in an hour and to Rome in just two hours.  The Adriatic tailspin can be reached by car or train in well-nigh an hour. The G. Marconi International Airport (BLQ) is the third largest in Italy, offering numerous low-cost flights to European destinations daily. Outgoing classes organize a velocipede sale for incoming students. The municipality moreover offers velocipede and car sharing programs.City life Whatever your idea of fun - culture, cuisine, science, art, sports, the outdoors - Bologna’s diverse variety of leisure activities offers something for everyone. The municipality has increasingly than 50 museums ranging from modern art to music to archaeology. The city’s opera house offers special-priced tickets for “under-30s” and several cinemas show films in their original languages.  Thanks to a zoning law that prohibited construction on the south side of the city, the hills of Bologna provide zaftig space for trekking and spending time surrounded by greenery. There are moreover 20 municipality parks to explore.  Bologna’s tourism office, Welcome Bologna, is located in the city’s main square, Piazza Maggiore. Their website includes an wide-stretching event calendar, fun facts well-nigh the municipality and thematic itineraries for discovering Bologna on your own. SAIS Europe students moreover have the unconfined privilege of enrolling in a non-credit undertow on Italian art history and culture during the fall semester, taught by one of Italy’s most prominent art historians. The undertow includes field trips to Florence, Ravenna and an insider’s tour of Bologna’s own treasures including the first corporeal theater.  Pre-termIncreasinglythan 80 percent of incoming students victorious in Bologna a month surpassing the wonk year begins to get a throne start on economics and languages and take pre-term courses in Microeconomics and Quantitative Reasoning, Intensive English, Intensive Italian, and Survival Italian. Math review sessions are moreover offered. Students inward their graduate studies without a number of years in employment have found pre-term to be a unconfined way to re-acclimate to the wonk world. Those who have not previously studied in the United States have appreciated the opportunity to retread to a new system surpassing whence with a full semester of undertow work. Pre-term is moreover an occasion to uncork working with the Office of Career Services which offers early sessions of its Professional DevelopmentUndertowprior to the start of classes.The benefits of peekaboo pre-term proffer vastitude academics. Students who victorious early have the endangerment to discover their new home during the tranquil summer holiday period. In wing pre-term participants have historically found a wider range of options for housing and have enjoyed getting settled surpassing the September rush. Welcome Week Welcome Week is held in mid-September, immediately prior to the start of classes and provides an introduction to wonk and student life at SAIS Europe. Over the undertow of several days, students will wilt familiar with the institution, get to know the sense and staff, and shepherd signature events such as the Director's Welcome Dinner andSenseDebate. Students moreover meet with an wonk counselor who will provide guidance related to undertow selection and wonk specializations. SAIS Europe sense advisors encourage students to take the courses that interest them the most, striving for a well-turned mix of required courses and electives as well as lecture-based classes and small seminars. With classmates from 40 countries, conversations virtually the seminar table are guaranteed to be stimulating. Contact Accessibility Campus Advisories Legal Student Right To Know Employment Washington, DC1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036+1.202.663.5600 SAIS Europevia Beniamino Andreatta, 3 (formerly via Belmeloro, 11)40126 Bologna, Italy+39.051.2917.811 The Hopkins-Nanjing Center162 Shanghai RoadNanjing, Jiangsu Province 210008People's Republic of China+1.202.663.5800+86.25.8359.2436