Consorzio ICoN


The Consorzio ICoN is an interuniversity consortium for Italian Studies established in 1999. It consists of 21 Italian universities and focuses on philology and cultural studies. The consortium is based and administrated at the University of Pisa and is supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. It aims at diffusing Italian language, culture and literature.

Participants

The universities forming the consortium are
The University of Pisa, in collaboration with the consortium, offers a bachelor's degree program in Italian philology and cultural studies for foreigners and expatriates, based on distance education and e-learning. The program refers to the bachelor's degree class L-10 and offers four majors in
Exams are carried out at institutions in the country of residence. The title will be issued by the administrative university, actually Pisa, mentioning all participating universities. As Italy is part of European Higher Education Area, the program has a value of 180 ECTS points and permits to participate in a Master's degree program.

Master's degrees

The ICoN consortium organizes three executive master's degrees in the field of Italian studies. They consist of phases of attendance, distance education and e-learning. The offer includes
The consortium ICoN also offers language courses and programs in written Italian at distinct levels. For native English speakers special packages have been designed in collaboration with the National Italian American Foundation and the University of California's department of Italian. The courses have been awarded with the European Commission's European Language Label.