Italy and Brazil today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the dissemination of the Italian language in Brazil, marking a further example of the efforts of the Embassy of Italy in Brasilia to promote Italian language and culture in Brazil and further strengthen bilateral cultural relations.
1000 distance courses
The memorandum will make it possible to offer Brazilian students 1,000 distance language and culture courses, grant contributions to the teaching of Italian in language centres of Brazilian state universities and collaborate on the drafting of proficiency exams.
“Idiomas sem Fronteras”
Through this memorandum Italy will also begin to participate in the Brazilian government’s “Idiomas sem Fronteras” (languages without borders) programme, which will allow Brazilian university and post-graduate students enrolled in foreign study programmes to study the language of the country in which they will be attending their courses.
Over the last 3 years 3,000 Brazilians have chosen Italian universities
Collaboration between Italy and Brazil in the “Idiomas sem Fronteras” programme is the fruit of young Brazilians’ growing desire to learn Italian and of the success in Italy of the “Scienza senza frontiere” (Science Without Frontiers) programme, which led over 3,000 Brazilian students and researchers to choose Italian universities for their foreign studies.
The memorandum was signed by Ambassador of Italy to Brasilia Raffaele Trombetta and Brazilian Minister for Education Renato Janine Ribeiro.
