Housing

Living in Trieste

Italian and foreign students can normally find accommodation in Trieste within a few weeks from their arrival.

Announcements of rooms or apartments available, or of students looking for fellow students to share, are also put on the notice board on the 2nd floor of the SISSA Main Building in front of the Students' Secretariat (Room 222).

Announcements can be found on the web and on social networks, but also by consulting the web site Welcome Office Accomodation. To get an idea about the place, in English: About - InTrieste ; for Housing-related issues, in English, useful tips are always available here: Private accommodation | Welcome Office FVG

Students, please note that you should provide the Students' Secretariat with a regular contract in order to be entitled to specific benefits or dedicated reimbursements. For further information about regular rental contracts please consult the Students@SISSA wiki.

Moving to Trieste and Sissa

Italian and foreign students can normally find accommodation in Trieste within a few weeks from their arrival. Usually two or three students share a flat, costing from 200 to 400 Euro each per month. One can expect to pay from a minimum of about 150 Euro a month for a room in an apartment, and starting from 400 Euro a month for a studio or small apartment (utilities EXCLUDED, e.g. electricity, water, gas bills, waste tax & wiFi).

Rental lodgings in Trieste are generally equipped and fully furnished and require, for this reason, a caution in the form of a rather substantial deposit to be paid together with the first month’s rent (not uncommon: two months’ rent for the deposit, which is returned to you at the end of the contract upon verification that no damages were made to the apartment and its content).

In case you need to receive additional luggage, be aware that no personal shipments can be ordered to Sissa’s address, besides Amazon deliveries of books or items of small size (amazon Locker available at Sissa's postal service of floor -1): take the time to get organized, establish contacts with your group at Sissa, eventually plan or postpone the shipment after finding a stable address! Sissa has no agreement with International shipping companies and is not able to help you much further on this specific issue.

Before fixing a place for your first days in Trieste, spend some time to get familiar with Sissa’s campus and its location: reaching Sissa on foot or by bike is a fitness activity to the top of the hill, with a beautiful view on the Adriatic sea. The shape of the town does not allow multiple paths to get here, and you may prefer the location of your place to be convenient for daily commuting to Sissa (bus line 38 starts not far from the train station/piazza Oberdan; crucial hours can be crowded, e.g. 8am uphill to Sissa, 5 pm donwhill to town).

Physics and Mathematics Area members: ascertain with your scientific referent whether the location of your office might be assigned in Strada Costiera 11, ICTP campus (aka "old Sissa building"): very seldom the case, but better be prepared. Sissa to ICTP is not a straight path.

Transport facilities | Welcome Office FVG

Trieste Trasporti Spa Trasporto pubblico locale nella provincia di Trieste

Important information about Rent contracts

A regularly registered rent contract is a requisite to obtain a Permit of Stay for non-EU citizens (be this for Study, Research, Work, or Family), and to obtain registration into the resident population of Trieste (all nationalities, Italian included).

Free assistance to tenants in case of issues arising with landlords and with reference to regularly registered rent contracts can be asked to one of the "Sindacato Inquilini" operating in town (e.g., sedi e orari friuli venezia giulia (sunia.it) , UNIAT Unione Nazionale Inquilini Ambiente e Territorio | UIL fvg , Friuli Venezia Giulia - Sicet.it ).

Make sure to sign a regular rental contract and ascertain that all compulsory communications are fulfilled in due time (for example, swift registration of the rent contract to allow your access to Registry office of Trieste Townhall, "Cessione di Fabbricato" to non-EU citizens, acquisition of Idoneità Abitativa certificate for obtaining a visa or Permit of Stay for dependent Family members, non-EU citizens).

Information in English relative to these procedures and their accomplishment in Trieste can be found in the dedicated section of the Welcome Office FVG: Formalities for guests and family members | Welcome Office FVG

Housing Service

SISSA has no guesthouse and no students' dorms are available, nor dedicated Housing office. SISSA's housing service is currently managed by TAG Immobiliare in the form of an online noticeboard reserved to Sissa's personnel, guests and students (private accommodation: each landlord is responsible for their offers/requirements and contractual relationship with the tenant/s).

For information and support, you can contact the Housing facility staff by email specifying your name, position and Area of study or research at SISSA. After Sissa confirms your status, you will be granted access to the HousingSISSA service which will facilitate the selection of available accommodation opportunities (apartments and rooms).

CONTACTS

For information, support or access to available accommodation, please contact the Housing servicestaff by email ( info@tagimmobiliare.com ) specifying your name, position and Area of study or research at SISSA.

Please remeber to insert in copy to your first email the reference Secretariat or office in Sissa’s administration who can confirm your “belonging to Sissa’s community”, but also housing@sissa.it for the activation of the service in your name.

After Sissa confirms your status, you will be granted access to the online notice board "Sissa-tenants preferred", which will facilitate the selection of accommodation opportunities (apartments and rooms) available in Trieste.

Contacts:

Additional services for foreigners

Besides their noticeboard, the HousingSissa staff is available to help you with housing- and lodging-related procedures, when available resources are not sufficient for you to handle the issue autonomously (web-based translation engines, community-based groups and socials...), for example:

  • assistance with utility-related procedures (electricity, gas, phone line and internet connection, etc.);
  • general information on tenancy agreements and housing fees (waste tax, tv tax, etc.);
  • language assistance if you do not speak Italian to prevent misunderstandings.

At your request, the housing service will give you advice to ensure that you sign a regular rental contract and all due communications are fulfilled in due time ("Cessione di Fabbricato" to non-EU citizens, swift registration of the rent contract to allow your access to Registry office of Trieste Townhall). A regularly registered rent contract is a requisite to obtain a Permit of Stay for non-EU citizens, and to obtain registration into the resident population of Trieste (all nationalities, Italian included).

In order to improve the housing facility, a feedback form will be sent to you at a later stage. Thank you in advance for your collaboration

 

DON’T MISS: The Welcome Office FVG portal

Information and assistance to international students and researchers before and during their stay in Friuli Venezia Giulia: Take the time to browse the section relative to Accommodation and start to get familiar with the rent jargon!

Welcome Office FVG

Welcome Office FVG is the regional one-stop-shop dedicated to international students and researchers.
It offers free information and personalized support on mobility-related issues through a compelling informative website. Take the time to browse the section relative to Accommodation and start to get familiar with the rent jargon, which in turn can make it easier to widen your search on the web or social networks with keywords in Italian (“affitto”, “stanza”, “appartamento”…). On the Welcome Office Portal, take the time to explore top- and side-menu, and dedicated sections: available tools and info-sheets are many, just to give you an idea we list some below:

  • get to do your list
  • information on what to do before leaving Trieste
  • Italian Language courses
  • relocating with family
  • information on the so-called idoneità alloggiativa (“Idoneità Abitativa”: certificate of suitability of accommodation - documentation requested for family members of students, i.e. family reunion visas or accompanying family members Permit of Stay)

... and much more, also under the News or Glossary sections!