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.

No, registration can be done in two steps. To register the institute you only need country, school code (Italian schools only), name, institutional email and password. The complete institute profile, students, companions, consent forms, shuttle, fee and payment receipt are entered after logging in, even over several sessions, but all before the registration deadline (see the Deadlines section). After that date data already entered can only be changed.

First step: registering the institute

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.

Second step: completing everything from the school area, even over several sessions, before the registration deadline

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.

After the registration deadline

7. Until the modification deadline, which follows the registration deadline, you can only edit data already entered: correct mistakes, replace a participant with one of the same sex, or withdraw them. You cannot add new participants.

On the morning of the exam the student must present the identification document indicated in their record.

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

Yes, the payment receipt of the registration fee must be uploaded in the "Shuttle & Fee" section of the school area, before the registration deadline. After that you can only replace the receipt already uploaded, until the modification deadline.

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 current edition's modification deadline. After the registration deadline, however, the sex of students and companions can no longer be changed. After the modification deadline, contact assistance.

There are two deadlines. After the registration deadline you can no longer add participants or enter missing data, but you can still edit the data already entered. After the modification deadline the data remains viewable but no longer editable: for corrections contact assistance.

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.

Yes, until the modification deadline. To replace them, edit their record with the new person's data and attach the new signed form: after the registration deadline the Sex field can no longer be changed, so a replacement is only possible with a person of the same sex. To withdraw them, use Delete in their record. New participants cannot be added.

No, the school cannot cancel its own registration by itself, even if incomplete. If you need to withdraw from the Certamen, contact the Certamen office.

In the school area, under Communications in the menu: it holds every message sent to your school, with attachments to download, even if the email did not arrive or ended up in spam. It is available even before the institute profile is complete.

Use the assistance contact details at the bottom of every page; if the email says so, you can also reply to the message directly. The communications in the school area can only be read.