Help & FAQ

The Certamen Horatianum is a classical language and culture competition dedicated to Quintus Horatius Flaccus, organized by the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Statale «Flacco - Battaglini» of Venosa and open to Italian and foreign schools.

Registration is reserved to schools, not individual students. The school creates the account and, once its profile is complete, adds the participating students and any companions.

Just one account per school. If the school has several branches (plessi), it registers only once for all of them: from that account, the school's contact person manages all participating students and companions.

The school code (codice meccanografico) is only for schools in Italy: schools in other countries do not enter it and the field is not required. Italian schools enter the code of their reference institute. You can also start typing the code of one of its branches: while you type, institutes from the Italian Ministry registry are suggested and choosing one fills in code, name and email. If you start from a branch code, the registration still applies to the whole institute. If the code is not among the suggestions you can type it by hand: a notice is shown, but registration is not blocked.

Use the institute's institutional email: it becomes the username and receives the verification link. For Italian schools we recommend the official email recorded in the Italian Ministry registry: if you use a different one, a notice is shown; you can still continue, but the Certamen office may contact the school to check it.

1. Register the school with the minimum data: country, school code (Italian schools only, with suggestions from the Ministry registry), name, institutional email and password.
2. Verify the email address by clicking the link you receive.
3. Log in for the first time and complete the school's data. For Italian schools, address, postcode, city and region are suggested from the Ministry registry: check and correct them if needed before saving. The telephone number is always entered by hand.
4. Add the participating students: personal data, high school type, identification document, any allergies or intolerances, consent to data processing, and the signed consent-form attachment.
5. Add any companions.
6. Fill in the logistics data: shuttle service, registration fee, and payment receipt.
7. All entered data can be edited until the deadline set for the current edition.

The student must present the identification document indicated during registration, on the morning of the exam.

It is the "Studente Minorenne" (minor student) or "Studente Maggiorenne" (adult student) form, signed by the student, to be attached during registration: without this attachment the student's registration is not considered complete. The templates are available in the Forms & Information menu item.

Yes, the receipt for the registration fee payment must be uploaded in the "Shuttle & Fee" section of the school profile.

Only PDF, JPG, JPEG or PNG files (for example a scan or photo of the signed form, or the PDF of the receipt). The consent form of students and companions can be at most 4 MB, the payment receipt at most 5 MB. Word, Excel and other formats are not accepted.

Check your spam folder too. If it still does not arrive after a few minutes, contact assistance using the details at the bottom of the page.

Use the Forgot password? link on the login page.

Yes, you can edit the school's, students', and companions' data until the deadline set for the current edition. After the deadline, contact assistance.

Editing data is only allowed until the deadline set for the current edition. Once it has passed, the data remains viewable but no longer editable.

Each institute can have only one registration per edition, even when starting from the code of another branch. If the institute is already registered, the registration page says so as soon as you choose it and does not let you continue. If instead the email address already has an account, the page still shows the confirmation message, but no new account is created: an email sent to the address you entered explains this. Ask your colleagues who registered, or contact assistance.

Yes: every edition requires a new registration with a new password. Data from past years is not copied over; when you enter the school code, however, the institute's up-to-date data from the Ministry registry is suggested.