Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Application in Italian language – 2nd edition”. The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff) to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions.

Given the offer of Italian government scholarships for undergraduate exchange, graduate research and cultural exchanges, it is intended that students, at the end of this course, will be able to: 1) easily locate Calls for Applications for Italian government scholarships; 2) understand the Italian higher education system; 3) know the main Italian proficiency tests; 4) recognize characteristics of a Call for Applications, in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in registration forms.

The course will be taught by professors Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini and the activity is coordinated by professor Dr. Daniela Bunn (MEN/CED). Selected students will receive the access link on 6 February and the Moodle space will open on 8 February. The synchronous classes will take place via the Moodle BBB Platform in three meetings, on Tuesdays, from 10 am to 11:30 am, scheduled for 15 February (Module 1), 22 February (Module 2 and 3) and 8 March (Module 4), and the course will end on 14 March.

The first module of the course presents the question “Why study in Italy?” and gives a brief presentation of the Italian higher education system, the division of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the main Italian language certifications. In the second and third modules, a Call for Applications from the Italian government offered by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI) will be presented, with vocabulary exploration and instrumentalization on aspects of the Italian language. In the fourth module, there will be a presentation on how to fill in the main data in application forms and equivalency requests, in addition to basic information about student visas.

Registration runs from 24 January to 6 February and the course has 50 places. It is not necessary to have previous knowledge of the Italian language and the Call for Applications promoted by the Italian Government has an age restriction. Click here to register.