إيطاليا

European projects (mobility/ stages,cooperation,)
workshops,summer schools (mediterranean area)
Bilateral agreement (EU,Usa,Asia,)

The University carries out many scientific research activities in the framework of the EU Programmes such as FP6, Leonardo, Socrates, Adapt, Horizon. Moreover it has many co-operations with public and private international organizations to realize joint research programs. Since academic year 2000/2001 there is the course of bachelor in Economic and Social Disciplines for development, cooperation and peace, that pays particular attention to the issues of national and international migrations and to projects of local development (Africa, Asian Sud-Est).

Study, restoration and tourist enhancement of Shawbak Castle and of Medieval Petra.
Tourist Master Plan planning for the Municipality of Shawbak.
Equal opportunities support action in the frame of heritage-economy.

2 Tempus-Meda projects:
University of Foggia, promoter and contractor,
Partners: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria;
1 Asia-Link project in partnership with the University of Murcia (promoter), Hunnan Normal University (China) and Pune (India);
1 Eu /Usa Project of cooperation (as promoter and contractor);
‘Leonardo da Vinci’ and ‘Erasmus’ Programmes;
International meetings on gender issues.

The projects of the Centre are implemented on its own initiative or in collaboration with or at the request of local authorities as well as of the working and training world. Pinpointing the needs is central. the projects focus on: human development and international cooperation, the promotion of interculturalism, the reduction of social marginalization, the promotion of adult education, the vocational and continuous training of employees of the civil service, of workers and business managers, teachers and school manager, the testing of new learning courses and teaching methods, the recognition and certification of the competences, the creation of a virtual community of the LLL University system. The Centre equally promotes agreements and project collaboration with institutions, foundations, associations as well as national and international Universities to build Euro-Mediterranean Lifelong Learning network.

EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING:
Since 2005, the School offers training and education programmes both to undergraduate students who, within their university studies, work as trainees in local schools with a high number of foreign children and to Italian teachers working in the same schools.
Since 2009 the School, together with the Department, offers postgraduates courses in Italian Language Acquisition every academic year. The structure of the postgraduate courses includes frontal lectures combined with online units, using e-learning and Moodle.
From the theoretical point of view, the students enrolled into the postgraduate courses benefit from lectures on pragmatics, second language acquisition theories, sociolinguistics and linguistics, lesson and curricula planning, assessment and so forth. From the practical perspective, postgraduate students start their teaching career within the language courses of the School where they are guided and supervised by expert lecturers and where closely work with already qualified teachers.
Since 2010, the School organises and hosts international seminars for teachers of Italian working abroad. The seminars focus on specific teaching techniques developed by the teachers of the School and on theoretical aspects of contemporary Italian.
The School is also very focused on the continuous training of its own teachers and it periodically offers them seminars and activities on the most up-to-date methodologies in language teaching. The School has recently started a theoretical and practical education path on the links between theatre and language teaching with the aim of critically understanding which strategies and instruments from the theatre can be applied to language teaching. Every year the School offers education and training programmes to approximately 600 teachers, trainees and postgraduate students.
LANGUAGE COURSES:
Every academic year the School offers Italian Language Courses for every level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. All the courses are held with the most up-to-date methodology, based on the communicative approach. There are different typologies of courses:
- Semi-intensive standard courses of Italian Language and Culture for exchange students (Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus, Leonardo Da Vinci) and visiting scholars of the University.
- Winter and Summer intensive courses that combine traditional language courses with a full immersion in Palermo everyday life and the offer of additional workshops focusing on cultural related topics, such as theatre, cooking, cinema, music, creative writing, Sicilian art and culture. Students coming from abroad enjoy trips and guided tours to discover the history, the art and the traditions of Palermo and its surroundings.
- Special courses of Italian and history of art that have a theoretical structure combined with an extensive application consisting of several educational trips to discover the masterpieces of Palermo and Sicily. Such courses aim at introducing the students to Italian art and to the specialised language, texts and lectures of History of Art.
- Advanced courses of Italian language and culture that combine classes of Italian Literature, History of Art and Italian Linguistics, all taught by university lecturers and researchers.
ACTIVE PROJECTS:
- Learning for Living: The School of Italian, together with the Department of Philology and Linguistics, and in partnership with the Southern Regional College (Northern Ireland), the Helsinki Deaconess Institute (Finland) and the Cumbernauld College (Scotland) benefits for the years 2011-2013 from the funds of the LLP Programme-Grundtvig, developing the project “Learning for Living”. The project aims at exchanging best practices and know-how in the thematic area of linguistic and cultural education of adult migrants. Students and teachers of the four partners are regularly meeting and organising seminars in order to share and enrich the approaches and the methodologies in language learning/teaching used within the territory of each partner, with special attention to the context migrant communities.
- Italian for Foreign Citizens living in Italy: Since 2011, thanks to Regional funds, the School offers free courses of Italian language and culture to adult foreign citizens legally living in Italy. The students enrolled into the courses have access to the CILS exams, the official certification of Italian as a Second/Foreign Language (foreign citizens living in Italy are now required to certify an A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to submit the application for the EU long-term residence permit). The courses focus on Italian culture and language and on important aspects of Italian community and public life.

Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean.
Scope of the Project is to explore the reception of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the philosophical and juridical traditions of the Mediterranean countries and their significance in the promotion of intercultural dialogue.

L'Associazione UPM ha come fine lo svolgimento di attività di utilità sociale a favore di associati e di terzi. Le sue attività e le sue finalità sono ispirate a principi di pari opportunità e dignità di tutte le componenti della società, nel rispetto delle diversità biologiche e culturali, e rispettose dei diritti inviolabili della persona. L'Associazione UPM, al di sopra delle differenze religiose, politiche, sociali e culturali ha i seguenti scopi:
    la diffusione di una alimentazione naturale ed equilibrata e di una filosofia del rispetto-amore a partire da Aria, Acqua, Terra, Vegetali, Animali e tutti gli esseri viventi.
    promuovere e favorire, presso tutta la popolazione, le istituzioni civili e la comunità scientifica a livello nazionale ed internazionale, l'adesione a stili e a modelli di sostenibilità ambientale, agricola, alimentare, sanitaria ed economica.

A school for handicaped giovani in Morocco
Donation of scientific instruments to hospitals
Doctor-sociological surveyings on ancients in Italian cities
Construction of a sink, elementary and ambulatory school in a Moroccan village
Training and propaganda for instruments of ready cardiac aid in Italy

VALORI DIMENTICATI (VD) is aware that youth are the best listeners when it comes to global issues because they know they will be the people who will be mostly affected in the future.
Thus, the main objective of VD educational activities is to provide human rights education, and this includes activities such as seminars, debates, cultural events which are meant to stimulate the basic values of tolerance and understanding in order to eliminate the gap between minorities and host-state citizens.