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Recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education

The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research made a point of appointing the best Italian language schools, in order to support the circulation of Italian culture and the Italian language.

presa d’atto prot 23860/P from 30.11.2004

The accreditation by the Ministry is the only Italian recognition obtainable that does not require purchase. The state-approved Italian language Schools were inspected carefully. The fullfillment of these strict requirements, guidelines and standards is still checked on a regular basis.

The specified standards given by the Ministry of Education, University and Research cover following points:

  • Quality of the teachers and professors at the language schools
  • Quality of material/equipment at the language schools
  • Quality of the method of learning at the language schools
  • Quality of the didactic lesson concept in the language courses

Our Italian language school was founded in 1993 in Tropea as a caffè culturale under the name Caffè Italiano Club. In 2004, 11 years after its foundation, the Caffè Italiano Club was officially recognised at a national level by the Ministry of Education, University and Research as an Italian language school. We changed the name of our school into Piccola Università Italiana in 2004 to emphasise its professionalism.

Ministry of Education

Patronized by the Italian Cultural Ministry

Piccola Università Italiana is the only Italian language school in Italy patronized by the Cultural Ministry for great achievements in the promotion of the Italian language and Italian culture and for the creation of the web portal www.italianculture.net

Ministry of Culture