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FACULTY-LED PROGRAMS · PARTNER UNIVERSITIES
An institutional extension of your home campus, hosted in Italy.
Accademia di Italiano accompanies universities, colleges and accredited institutions of higher education in the design and delivery of customized faculty-led programs in Italy. Each programme is conceived as an institutional extension of the home campus and of its scholarly curriculum. The visiting faculty member retains full academic authority - syllabus design, learning outcomes, classroom instruction, assessment and grading - within the academic rigour required by the partner institution. Our Partner Desk supervises the institutional, operational and cultural infrastructure that surrounds the academic experience.
Our four campuses offer four distinct academic and cultural environments, brought together by a single operational framework and by the same dedicated relationship with each partner institution: Florence - the Padri Scolopi campus on Via Bolognese, a seventeenth-century complex housing classrooms, library, language laboratory, auditorium and on-campus residence; Milan - the historic city-centre Academy on Via Durini; Mantua - the former Archbishop's Seminary, set within a UNESCO Renaissance city; and Turin - the contemporary campus close to Parco del Valentino. Each site upholds the same standards of academic governance, student welfare and quality assurance that partner universities expect of their own institution.
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Partner universities
4
Campuses across Italy
22+
Years hosting cohorts
A1 - C2
Italian language tracks
The academic model in detail
Each section below addresses one dimension of the partnership. We recommend consulting the page that aligns with the current stage of your institution's internal review - be it the study-abroad office, the curriculum committee, the registrar or risk-management.
How it works
The academic model · three phases of program support (pre-departure, on-site, re-entry) · the services we coordinate on the ground · optional academic enrichments.
Program types & disciplines
Six program formats (summer, semester, pre-semester intensive, custom short, full year, hybrid rotation) · eight academic disciplines · sample weekly schedule.
Pricing & process
Pricing model - standard inclusions, optional add-ons, payment terms · eight-step partnership timeline from first enquiry to arriving cohort.
Case studies & testimonials
Representative past programs delivered with U.S. partner institutions · feedback from visiting faculty directors and study-abroad office leads · references on request.
Hosting venues - four academic addresses across Italy
Each prospective programme is delivered at one of four institutional venues - selected on academic, logistical and risk-management criteria with the Programme Director of the partner institution. Two venues operate under the campus model (Florence and Mantua: on-campus residence, full meal plan and integrated academic infrastructure on a single estate, in line with Sant'Anna and Cattolica residential summer-school standards) and two under the city model (Milan and Turin: Academy as the academic anchor, vetted residential housing in walking distance). All four venues are designed to provide the academic seriousness, facilities and risk-management profile that curriculum committees, study-abroad offices and US accreditation bodies expect.
Florence - primary academic hub (campus model)
17th-century Padri Scolopi estate, Via Bolognese 52. Former Piarist Fathers' study house, in continuous educational use since 1645 and registered as a property of historical interest. 8,000 m² of enclosed grounds, 14 instructional rooms across the historic main building, 150-seat Aula Magna for guest lectures and partner conferences, language laboratory, ground-floor library with general and Italian-studies reference collections, on-campus residence with full meal plan, in-house café (the Unicafè), olive groves and a vegetable garden used in food-studies modules.
Disciplinary fit: art history, architecture, heritage conservation, Renaissance and Italian Renaissance studies, Italian civilisation and language, music history, fashion, religious history, classical and archaeological studies.
Partner-institution profile: liberal-arts colleges and research universities with established Italy programmes, art and architecture schools, religious-foundation institutions, and consortia for Renaissance studies. The closest profile to a Sant'Anna or Cattolica residential intensive in the Italian academic landscape.
Mantua - "Deep Italy" residential venue (campus model)
Former Archbishop's Seminary, Via C. Montanari 1. UNESCO World Heritage city of 50,000 inhabitants, with effectively no English-speaking expatriate community - an academic setting where partner faculty can reasonably expect cohorts to engage in Italian outside the classroom. 8 instructional rooms inside a restored 18th-century cloister, Aula Magna with preserved original stuccoes for institutional ceremonies, in-house library, on-campus residence with optional meal plan, private quadrangle. 1h45 from Milan by train; equidistant from Verona, Modena and Cremona for excursion programming.
Disciplinary fit: Italian civilisation and language at intermediate-to-advanced levels, Renaissance studies, urban history, food and territory studies, agricultural and rural sociology, heritage conservation, sustainable-development studies.
Partner-institution profile: small liberal-arts colleges seeking high-immersion residential intensives, faculty-led programmes with explicit linguistic-immersion objectives, food-studies and food-systems programmes. The closest analogue to the Sant'Anna model of small-cohort residential academic intensives in Italy.
Milan - business and design hub (city model)
Academy at Via Durini 7, in the executive heart of Milan, four minutes from the Duomo and within walking distance of Bocconi University, Politecnico di Milano (Bovisa campus served by metro line 2), Università Cattolica and Sant'Ambrogio. 6 executive-grade classrooms, boardroom-style meeting room with conference AV, library corner, sound-isolated seminar rooms. Vetted external residential housing within 25-minute commute - including options in Brera, Porta Nuova and Navigli districts.
Disciplinary fit: business and management (Bocconi-track), design and architecture (Politecnico-track), fashion and luxury studies, finance and banking, contemporary Italian culture and communications, urbanism, international relations.
Partner-institution profile: business schools with Italian semester or summer programmes, design and architecture schools partnering with Politecnico or affiliated institutes, communications programmes, programmes integrating site visits to Italian fashion houses and finance institutions. For partner faculties who require the metropolitan and professional gravitas of a Cattolica-Milano or Bocconi-affiliated setting.
Turin - design, Slow Food and engineering venue (city model)
Modern three-storey academy on Via Saluzzo 60, near Parco del Valentino and the Politecnico di Torino district. 10 instructional rooms with smart boards, library with Italian and area-studies collections, Aula Magna for guest lectures, ground-floor reception, full accessibility on all levels. Walking distance from Castello del Valentino (Politecnico), 15 minutes from OGR Tech (the city's innovation hub), 20 minutes from Castello di Rivoli and Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation for contemporary-art programmes. Vetted external housing options around San Salvario and Crocetta.
Disciplinary fit: design and engineering (Politecnico ecosystem), Slow Food studies and food-systems (with proximity to Pollenzo, the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo founded by Slow Food), automotive heritage, contemporary art, architecture, alpine and territorial studies.
Partner-institution profile: engineering and design schools, programmes with food-studies or sustainability components, partner programmes seeking an academically serious northern-Italian city with lower cost of living than Milan or Florence. The elegant Northern alternative - between the Alps and the Langhe.
Academic Approval Pack
A structured documentation dossier issued to each partner institution in support of formal curriculum approval, risk-management review, insurance assessment and study-abroad office sign-off. Drafted in the language and academic structure that curriculum committees and accreditation bodies expect, the dossier serves as the institutional bridge between Accademia di Italiano and the partner university.
Contact the Partner Desk
We invite each prospective partner institution to share the essential coordinates of the prospective programme: name of the home institution, the faculty member designated as Programme Director, target academic dates, expected cohort size and academic framework (course taught, credit hours, language component, internship integration), together with any specific requirements expressed by the study-abroad office or curriculum committee. The Partner Desk will respond within two working days with a formal proposal, accompanied by a draft Academic Approval Pack tailored to the institution's internal review process.
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