# Academic Calendar and Key Deadlines 2024/2025

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## Academic Calendar and Key Deadlines 2024/2025

*[Versione italiana](https://www.unipd.it/calendario-accademico-2024-2025)*

**ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25**

Academic Year Start: Tuesday October 1, 2024

Start of Teaching Activities: Monday, September 30, 2024

For organizational and teaching effectiveness reasons, the relevant Teaching Structures may:

- Anticipate the start of teaching activities to Monday, September 23, 2024, with notice given on their website by August 27, 2024.
- Postpone the start of teaching activities, with notice given on their website by Monday, September 16, 2024.

Suspension of Teaching Activities:

- All Saints' Day: Friday, November 1, 2024
- Christmas Holidays: from Saturday, December 21, 2024 to Monday, January 6, 2025
- Easter Holidays: from Friday, April 18, 2025 to Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Liberation Day: Friday, April 25, 2025
- Labour Day: Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Giustinianea Celebration: Friday, May 2, 2025
- Italian Republic Day: Monday, June 2, 2025
- Summer Holidays: from Monday, August 4, 2025 to Saturday, August 16, 2025
- Feast of the Patron Saint in the provincial capitals where teaching activities are held
- Patron Saint of Padua: Friday, June 13, 2025

## LECTURES AND EXAM SESSIONS

**Trimesters and semesters**

Classes are organised either in semesters or in trimesters, depending on regulations that applies to the specific class. Every single class can begin/end in different dates within common intervals\
These are the common scheduled dates:

**Trimester system**\
*First trimester:*\
Classes: 30 September 2024 to 30 November 2024\
Winter exam session: 2 December 2024 to 21 December 2024

*Second trimester:*\
Classes: 7 January 2025 to 15 March 2025\
Spring exam session: 17 March 2025 to 5 April 2025

*Third trimester:*\
Classes: 7 April 2025 to 14 June 2025\
Summer exam session: 16 June 2025 to 19 July 2025

Extra exam session: 18 August 2025 to 20 September 2025\
Exam session reserved to students who will graduate by 13 December 2025: 1 October - 22 November 2025

**Semester system**\
*First semester:*\
Classes: 30September 2024 to 18 January 2025\
Winter exam session: 20 January 2025 to 22 February 2025

*Second semester*\
Classes: 24 February 2025 to 14 June 2025\
Summer exam session: 16 June 2025 to 19 July 2025

Extra exam session: 18 August 2025 to 20 September 2025\
Exam session reserved to students who will graduate by 13 December 2025: 1 October - 22 November 2025

You can consult the **timetable of lectures and the occupancy of the university's teaching rooms** at [www.gestionedidattica.unipd.it/PortaleStudenti](http://www.gestionedidattica.unipd.it/PortaleStudenti/).

- [Academic year 2024/25
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