The Provincial Centres for Adult Education (CPIA) are used to teach Italian to foreigners.
They can enroll in the Provincial Centers for Adult Education:
- adults, including foreigners, who have not completed compulsory education and who wish to obtain the final qualification for the first stage of education;
- adults, including foreigners, who hold the final qualification of the first stage of education and who intend to obtain the final qualification of the second stage of education;
- foreign adults wishing to enroll in the Italian Language Literacy and Learning Pathways
The adult education courses of the CPIA, including those held at the institutions prevention and punishment, are organized in the following paths:
- literacy and learning of the Italian language (carried out by the CPIA).
The CPIA provide literacy and learning courses in the Italian language L2 (AALI) aimed at obtaining a qualification attesting knowledge of the language not lower than A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Knowledge.
They can enroll in first level courses:
- adults, also with non-Italian citizenship, without the basic skills related to the obligation of education, referred to in the Ministerial Decree n.139/2007, or who are not in possession of the title of final study of the first cycle of education.
They can register for the second level courses:
- adults, including non-Italian nationals, who hold the final qualification of the first cycle of education.
You can enroll in the literacy and learning paths of the Italian language:
- adults of non-Italian nationality of working age, including those with educational qualifications obtained in their countries of origin.
Registration first level:
- the application shall be submitted by the adults concerned directly to the premises of the CPIA administrative unit, including through the “associated locations”.
Registration second level:
- the application must be submitted directly to the premises of the CPIA Teaching Unit (second-level dispensing points), that is to say to the educational institutions where the second-level courses are run.
They shall promptly forward copies to the CPIA Head Office. Applications for registration should, as a general rule, be submitted by 31 May and in any case not later than 15 October. However, applications submitted after the above deadline may be accepted.
