By Lavinia Bracci, Fiora Biagi and Isabelle Sophie Thaler A new article, released last October was co-authored by our own Lavinia Bracci and Fiora Biagi as well as our colleague, Isabelle S. Thaler. It stemmed from a deep analysis of European documents and frameworks concerning democratic competences and digital citizenship education and proposes the first steps towards a structured assessment of digital citizenship. You can find it as keynote article 1 in the ICC Journal (Autumn 2022, Vol. 4, Issue 2, ISSN 2747-9862).  Or you can click the following link! https://icc-languages.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ICC-JOURNAL-Volume-4-Issue-2-Autumn-2022.pdf

The DiCE.Lang project has reached its third and final year! This final phase will be dedicated mostly to dissemination activities. After working on key intellectual outputs, such as a large set of Open Educational Resources and a Teacher Training Package, both focused on Digital Citizenship Education vis-à-vis Foreign Language Learning, the consortium is now aiming at finalizing the policy framework and planning several multiplier events in local contexts for the year 2023. On Oct.3-5 the project’s second last TPM took place in beautiful Riga, where the Latvian partner kindly and efficiently hosted

☀️🇮🇹Maymester in Siena, Italy: May 14 - June 4, 2023🇮🇹☀️ 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, 2023.   Program Highlights: Dates: Sunday, May 14-Saturday, June 4, 2023 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

Our first ever J-Term (January mini-program) is up and running and so far it's been a success!  While getting a study abroad program off the ground these days is a formidable task, the team at SIS is up to the challenge. Right now, seven students from Siena College are discovering what an authentic experience in Italy is really like.  All of them are living with our wonderful host families where they get to practice the Italian that they learn. There's more to the J-Term than just Italian.  Everyone is going to go

☀️🇮🇹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