The Ateneo+ University Card is your personal student ID card. It is essential for accessing University facilities, sitting exams, recording attendance in class and using services such as libraries, canteens, book loans, student service desks and many others.
Thanks to a partnership with BPER, the Ateneo+ Card can also be activated free of charge as a reloadable payment card with an IBAN.
Once activated, the card can be used to receive payments, free of charge, including tuition fee refunds, scholarships, student collaboration grants and Erasmus grants. You can also use it to make small contactless payments, top up your mobile phone and pay University tuition fees and contributions without additional charges.
What the card looks like
The Ateneo+ Card looks like a standard magnetic card. It displays personal information that identifies the cardholder: photograph, student ID number, first name and surname, and date of birth.
The card also features the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore logo and the logo of the payment network through which it can be used.
The Ateneo+ Card will be sent to students enrolling in the University's degree programmes once they have completed enrolment, but not before September.
Delivery information
- The Ateneo+ Card will be sent to the address provided by the student in the Enrolment Portal. Cards are delivered within Italy only, and not before September. Delivery arrangements for students living abroad are still being finalised.
- Students enrolled in degree programmes offered by the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery must collect their Ateneo+ Card from the Student Services Centre in Rome or the Academic Office at their programme location. Students will be notified via iCatt when their card is ready for collection.
- Once you receive your Ateneo+ Card, you must confirm receipt through your personal iCatt page.
- The information leaflet included with the card explains its payment features. If you wish to activate the card as a payment card, free of charge, simply click the link in the email you will receive immediately after confirming receipt. This will start the activation process, which includes remote identity verification. You will not need to visit a bank branch.
- By activating the card's payment features, you consent to receiving the relevant payments through the card and authorise the bank to share the associated IBAN with the University.
Further details of the terms and conditions offered by Banca Popolare di Sondrio are available on the bank's website.
For information on how the card works, see the FAQs and the following document:
Cards issued in the 2016/17 academic year or earlier
Student ID cards issued to students enrolled up to and including the 2016/17 academic year remain active and continue to provide access to the relevant facilities and services.
