18. Should I attend the Orientation Programme?

The Orientation Programme includes two types of activities: some are free and open to all students, and others are only available to you if you have previously paid the fee and handed in the corresponding enrolment form for the activity. The activities that are free are: Welcome Session, Introducing you to your Mentors, University Tour, Apéritif and Conferences. Those activities for which you have to pay are the excursions to different parts of Santander and Cantabria. We here at the ORI feel that these activities are a wonderful opportunity for all the students and the mentors to get to know one another.

19. How should I go about paying for the Orientation Programme excursions?

The fee for these activities is made in one single payment. Bear in mind that the amount to pay will not change no matter how many excursions you actually go on in the end. Also, once you have made your payment, no refunds will be given. You should not pay before you have actually arrived at the UC because, in order to carry out this step properly, you need first to go to the ORI to pick up the corresponding form. The right to enjoy to the Orientation Programme paying activities is personal and cannot be passed to anyone else.

20. What is a UC mentor?

A mentor is a Spanish student who has already been on an exchange that we will introduce to you at the Welcome Session so that he/she can accompany you on the University Tour and all the other Welcome and Orientation Session activities and who will help you to communicate in Spanish for anything you need to do related with your arrival at the UC.

21. Are the times of the Orientation Programme activities going to coincide with that of my Spanish Course?

No, the activities are organised in such a way that they are compatible with your Spanish Course.