The American University of Rome (AUR) is licensed by the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) in the United States. It is incorporated in Washington, D.C. and is authorized to operate as an American university in Italy by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).
Students who graduate with an AUR degree and intend to either work in Italy or continue their studies at an Italian university may need to provide an ARDI Correspondence Statement and a Statement of Verification, issued by CIMEA.
What is an ARDI (Automatic Recognition Database Italia) Statement of Correspondence?
The correspondence reported in ARDI is based on the foreign qualification as a whole and not on individual cases. The analysis in the database and the related information result from an evaluation of the general qualifications of each foreign system, comparing them, as far as possible, to academic and/or school qualifications in the Italian system, as an expression of a non-binding technical opinion based on the evaluation methodology developed by CIMEA. For the countries that are signatories to the Lisbon Recognition Convention a Statement of Correspondence can be automatically generated by the system for each qualification, instantly and free of charge, and is immediately available for download.
What is a Statement of Verification?
This service includes the verification of the authenticity of the qualification performed by CIMEA experts that, when positive, results in the release of a Statement of Verification. The verification procedure consists in confirming whether a foreign qualification from the higher education system or upper secondary school has indeed been awarded to the holder by an official institution within the reference system.
The term Verification of authenticity means any action performed by CIMEA in order to receive information on the actual award of a qualification by the institution of reference.
This verification does not establish in any way the formal recognition of the qualification within a different national system, but is a useful indication for the institutions that evaluate the qualification during the different recognition procedures: the Statement of Verification of the qualification has the weight of opinion, and does not bind institutions in any way during their evaluation and recognition procedures.
How to obtain the Statements using the Diplome service
The American University of Rome has signed an agreement with CIMEA, allowing students to request these Statements through their «Diplome» service. Thanks to the Diplome blockchain-based platform, CIMEA will issue the required Statement of Verification directly in the applicant’s digital wallet. This qualification management system is decentralized, transparent, certified and unchangeable, with the scope of making it progressively easier for a student, a graduate or a professional to enroll in a foreign university or enter the labor market in a foreign country.
To create your Diplome account go to https://mywallet.cimea-diplome.it/#/auth/register
Make sure you complete the full registration procedure to access the dedicated Information Request service, allowing you to contact a CIMEA expert directly and to submit the request for a Statement of Comparability and/or Statement of Verification.
Further questions can be addressed to CIMEA directly though their Information request service.