25/07/2025
📢 Updates on the EDISU Scholarship Notice of Competition
With this post, we want to inform you about the main updates regarding the upcoming EDISU notice of competition. You will find confirmation of these changes in the official document, which will be published in the coming days. We strongly encourage you to read it carefully.
The Piedmont Region, through the technical meetings and the request for an opinion (parere) on the Regional Criteria, did not guarantee us newly elected student representatives sufficient time to formulate thoughtful feedback. We were summoned at the last minute and faced with tight deadlines (we, too, are students with academic responsibilities). Nonetheless, we managed to propose 17 proposals during the technical meetings, many of which were unfortunately not accepted by the Region.
In this climate of urgency, the Region emphasized the need for “economic sustainability” of the system. The new Director of the “Istruzione, Formazione e Lavoro” Department declared that in recent years, scholarships have been awarded without properly evaluating their financial impact, hinting at the risk of no longer being able to guarantee full coverage for all eligible students.
These concerning signs were confirmed by the absence of any section dedicated to scholarships in the first draft of EDISU’s new 2025–2029 Strategic Plan. Only after our pressure, was a minimal, yet insufficient paragraph added. This allowed the Plan to be approved with our sole opposing vote in Consiglio d’Amministrazione. As Alter.POLIS, Collettivamente, and Studenti Indipendenti, together with other student groups, we remain committed to defending full coverage for all eligible applicants, despite the Region’s hesitation, especially while it continues to invest public resources in other sectors.