Health and Accident Insurance for Researchers and Fellows
Check your entitlement under the Italian National Health System before applying for private insurance.
Medical and accident insurance matters for researchers and postdoctorate fellows are dealt with by the Academic Service.
This page gives new researchers and postdocs (Max Weber, Jean Monnet, Fernand Braudel fellows) basic information on the medical and accident insurance schemes run by the EUI.
Anyone wishing to claim reimbursement of medical expenses from the Vanbreda company's health insurance scheme should use the Vanbreda form
All researchers and postdoctorate fellows must have adequate medical insurance for the duration of their stay at the EUI.
This may be a private or state/national insurance cover which will be checked when the researcher or fellow registers at the beginning of the academic year.
For anyone who cannot or who does not subscribe to a national or private insurance scheme, the Institute has a collective medical insurance policy taken out with an international broker.
See the Vanbreda basic policy page for details. The policy is valid world-wide and may be extended to cover a researcher's or fellow's dependants.
Austrain, Belgian, British, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, and Swedish researchers in receipt of grants from their government can be insured against sickness via this collective EUI policy.
One-year LL.M. researchers should extend their national insurance rights abroad for the one year of study, using the EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) or similar, or sign up for the EUI collective scheme paying the premium personally.
Other researchers must pay the premium for the EUI scheme themselves. This costs €52,90 per month per adult and €26,45 per month per child.
Postdoctorate fellows and their dependants may be covered by the EUI collective scheme at their own expense.
Information on the Vanbreda policy and subscription forms are emailed to researchers and fellows before their arrival.
In addition, researchers and fellows may also wish to consider the Van Breda Supplementary Policy which reimburses the costs of medical hospital care given, due to a disease or an accident, in addition to the reimbursements of the basic group insurance subscribed by the EUI.
Researchers and postdoctorate fellows are covered world-wide against the risks of accident by a second, additional, collective policy that the Institute has taken out with Vanbreda International.
This is a complementary cover that ONLY comes into operation after the insured's principal health insurance cover (i.e. the Vanbreda health insurance scheme or any other public/private scheme) has reimbursed its part of the medical expenses incurred.
The dependants of researchers or postdoctorate fellows are NOT eligible for this accident insurance cover. They are advised to take out accident insurance cover in their country of residence that will be valid for the entire duration of their stay in Italy.
In case of accident, you have 10 days after the day of the accident in which to complete the Declaration of Accident form, to be sent to Françoise Thauvin, with complete documentation issued by the Emergency Service.
Apart from the Accident Policy (automatically applied by the EUI for all researchers and postdoctorate fellows), other supplementary policies to the Vanbreda basic health insurance policy are also available, e.g. further hospital and surgery cover and a more global policy for use in the USA. These are all at the researcher's or fellow's own cost.
Contact Françoise Thauvin for further information, int. 2371.
A European Council Decision obliges all non-EU nationals to have full travel/medical insurance and repatriation coverage when applying for an entry visa, the EUI subscribes to two new insurance policies with the Van Breda Company for short-term Visitors (i.e. visiting the EUI for a few days):
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A policy with AGF (Assurances Générales de France) to cover urgent medical or emergency hospital treatment or accident, with minimum coverage of €30,000.00
Premium: €6.30 per person per period of 15 days
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A policy with InterPartner Assistance covering repatriation from Italy to the country of origin in an emergency
Premium: €1.20 per person, per day
For further information and registration contact Françoise Thauvin