Working

A stay permit for study purposes allows to work for a maximum of 1040 hours per year with a contract as an employee ("subordinato").
Also 150 hour students collaborations, Law 390 of 1991 (art. 14 paragraph 4 d.p.r. 31/08/1999 n. 394) are possible with this kind of stay permit.

A stay permit for study reasons can be converted into a work permit as long as it remains within the rates ("quotas") set by the Government every year and within the ministerial terms (art. 14 paragraph 5 d.p.r. 31/08/1999 n. 394). Please ask Cinformi for further information.

If you have an Italian degree (laurea triennale, specialistica/magistrale, PhD, Master I or II level), the stay permit for study reasons can be converted into a work permit despite the quotas of the current year. You have 2 months' time after the expiry of the study stay permit to apply for the authorization ("nulla osta") to the conversion.
For further details about the conversion from study into work permit, read the relevant file in the Downloads section.