☀️🇮🇹Maymester in Siena, Italy: May 15 - June 4, 2022🇮🇹☀️ Did you know that you can squeeze a 3-week study abroad experience in before your summer begins?  Don’t let opportunities pass you by! SIS Intercultural Study Abroad has options for everyone!  For example, take a look at this experience that we’ve created for May, 2022.   Program Highlights: Dates: Sunday, May 15-Saturday, June 4, 2022 Experience the beauty of Siena and Tuscany Use Siena as a home-base for exploring Italy and Europe, or stick around and enroll in the 8-Week SIS Summer program! 4 Credits

A truly authentic study abroad experience. SIS Intercultural Study Abroad. ✅ Earn college credit, no matter what your major! Explore the wide array of academic opportunities that we offer to all of our students.  There are even courses for STEM majors!  Click to browse our course offerings for Spring 2022. ✅ Live with a wonderful host family. Your Italian host family will provide you with a home away from home while giving you in inside view on what Italian life and culture are really like. Click to read more about our host families. ✅ Actually learn

What is Service-Learning?   The best way to think about Service-Learning is to imagine combining approaches to learning.   First, you learn through meaningful volunteer work in a community.  However, you also learn more through your academic studies. What you get in the end is a deeper knowledge! How does SIS combine Service-Learning with your study abroad experience? SIS has been a pioneer in Service-Learning in Italy since 2004.   We want our students to be participants in local society.  In class we give them the tools they need to be able to communicate and understand

Are students ready to thrive in an interconnected world? Join us for a webinar on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 20 18 Global Competence Report. The PISA program started in 1997 and the first study took place in 2000. It aims to gather and compare information regarding students from more than 80 countries worldwide.  In 2018 the new dimension of Global Competence was added to the information gathered. The webinar will be held May 25th at 3:00 PM (CET) to discuss the findings of the study and how you can improve your students' understanding

COVID-19 vaccinations have been made available to those working in the field of education and this includes SIS staff and professors!  We're happy to take this step towards a safer experience for everyone involved with our program. To see more about our COVID-19 safety precautions please follow this link.

As study abroad experiences these unprecedented times, we feel fortunate.  We see a light ahead and more importantly we have a light among us.  Matthew (Matty) Bickman is one of the few students to venture back out into the world with us.  Together, we're all making new discoveries.  He wrote the following reflection as an assignment for our course, Intercultural Dialogue, Democracy and Global Citizenship through Reflection.   We thought that it was worth sharing as a testament to the importance of contact, host-families, and study abroad right now! Grazie Matty.   Matthew

What a long, strange trip it has been indeed.  We can't say that things are really back to "normal" just yet.  However, after months of wondering when we'd be able to welcome students to Siena, the wait is finally over. Three days ago we welcomed our first student to SIS since the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Matthew (Matty) Bickman is from L.A. but he attends university at NYU.  As far as we know, Matty is the only American study abroad student in S iena right now!   He decided to pursue this