(August 24, 2016) The collaboration between ICoN Consortium – a network of 18 universities that operates under an agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the Autonomous Province of Trento has been renwed for 2017. The province is in fact supplying 50 licenses for the Italian beginners level (A1) online course, lasting one year, issued by ICoN Consortium. The licenses are aimed to descendants of Trentino emigrants, resident abroad. Winning students will be placed in virtual classes within the learning platform ICoN, where they can take the course, play interactive activities and participate in the forums. During their period of study, expert tutors in teaching Italian as a foreign language online will guide them. Students will also conduct lessons in synchronous mode to perfect the spoken language. Those who will pass the tests and the beginners exercises will access to more advanced levels in the following three years. For more than ten years ICoN and the Autonomous Province of Trento have collaborated for language training of Trentino emigrants descendants; more than 700 students were able to study their native language at home, through online ICoN Italian courses, designed by faculty members of the University and realized by a Consortium internal team of experts. (Red)
