Tuition, fees, and training: €9,000
Maintenance and accommodation: €11,000
Total: €20,000

Books and personal expenses are always at the expense of the student or the diocese or religious congregation to which the student belongs.

(*) This is the amount that each student would have to pay if tuition were to cover all academic expenses; when the student's scholarship does not cover this amount, the university must finance it each year through extraordinary fundraising.

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Bank transfer order in the name of the CARF Foundation - Centro Académico Romano Fundación, to any of the following accounts:

BBVA
ES73 – 0182 – 2329 – 9900 – 1300 – 8167. BIC/SWIFT code: BBVAESMM

CaixaBank
ES39 – 2100 – 1433 – 8602 – 0017 – 4788. BIC/SWIFT code: BARCESMM

Sabadell
ES96 - 0081 - 0569 - 8600 - 0160 - 7861. BIC/SWIFT Code: BSABESBB

Bankinter
ES46 – 0128 – 5758 – 9401 – 0000 – 1892. BIC/SWIFT code: BKBKESMM

Santander
ES73 - 0049 - 5103 - 7121 - 1654 - 1171. BIC/SWIFT Code: BSCHESMM

From any device on our online donations.

The first 250 € of your tax-deductible donation, will have a deduction in the Income Tax Return of 80 %. That is to say, by donating 20.84 €/month, or 250 €/year, the Treasury will refund you 200 € in the Income Tax Return, as stated in the BOE.

you can help fund seminarians and diocesan and religious priests to continue their formation, so that no vocation is lost. More information on incentives and deductions from the Patronage Law.

The identifying data necessary to include the CARF Foundation in the will are as follows: CENTRO ACADÉMICO ROMANO FUNDACIÓN. CIF: G79059218. Calle Conde de Peñalver, 45. Entreplanta Oficina1, 28006 Madrid.

There are different ways to include the CARF Foundation in your will, depending on your circumstances: You can name the CARF Foundation as your sole heir, leaving it all your assets, rights, and shares.

If you want to leave your assets to more than one person or institution, you can nominate the CARF Foundation. co-heir assigned to each of the parties, indicating in the will the percentage you want each one to inherit.

You can leave the CARF Foundation a legacythat is to say, something concrete. It can be a certain amount of money, a percentage of the total value of the estate, a real estate property or other assets such as works of art, antiques, jewelry, etc.

Learn more about testaments and charitable bequests.

First of all, please know that we at the CARF Foundation will pray for you, since one of our founding purposes is to pray for priestly vocations to which we include vocations, in general, and also to the religious state, so that we may all know how to serve well the Church throughout the world.

Seek good spiritual direction from your parish priest, as he will know how to help you in vocational discernment. The bishop of your diocese will also know how to

Learn more about what is a priest.

Donations in kind are those in which instead of contributing a sum of money or an inheritance or testamentary legacy, the donor or benefactor makes a contribution of material goods of a certain value.

In most situations these are assets that are valuable and that the donor already understands that they will not use or do not need on a day-to-day basis for whatever reason.

Therefore, the donor considers that they will be of greater use if they are given to support a noble cause such as the CARF Foundation, and decides to donate them to support the integral formation of priestly and religious vocations.

Learn more about the donations in kind.

Donations in cash, in kind, bequests and solidarity wills enable the CARF Foundation to help priests and religious from all over the world, at the request of their bishops or the generals of each order, to be trained in the Faculties of Studies. Faculties of Ecclesiastical Studies of the University of Navarra, UNAV (Pamplona, Spain) and at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, PUSC (Rome, Italy).

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Donations in cash, in kind, bequests and joint and several wills are never given to specific individuals or in private current accounts.

Both academic institutions in Pamplona (UNAV) and Rome (PUSC) are requesting the CARF Foundation to help priests and religious from all over the world who do not have the resources to be able to study.

Of course, the bishops or the generals of each religious order of the possible candidates will have had to request their support beforehand.

Learn more about the assistance we provide.

Yes, every year we travel to Rome in Octoberfrom Tuesday to Sunday, to see the Pope, to stroll and enjoy the Eternal City and, above all, for benefactors and friends to learn about the work we do with seminarians and diocesan priests and religious men and women from all over the world who are there improving their formation.

The CARF Foundation always uses a religious travel and pilgrimage agency that is an expert in the coordination and management of all the operations of the event: flights, transfers, accommodation, visits, meals, guides, etc.

Every year, we also make an intensive, one-day trip on the last Friday of May, to know in Pamplona the work of the university and the Bidasoa Seminary.

An exciting social gathering with the seminarians who tell us about their lives, we pray, eat with them, celebrate the graduation of some of them, and they are given the Sacred Vessel Backpack.

In March, if the conditions are right, we will travel to Holy Land.

Learn more about the pilgrimages.