CPIA 1 Centro Provinciale per l'Istruzione degli Adulti Catania 1

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Organization type
Educational and Research organisation
Descrizione:
The CPIA Catania 1 (Provincial Centre for Adult Education) is a new educational institution ( founded  since 1 September 2015) called to work on a part of the Catania and Calatino area (Caltagirone and Palagonia). It is  a Lifelong Learning Adult Centre: a newly-established reference point of a district network of 16 schools and 4 prisons, in a territory of 75 km. It is divided into a territorial network of service and organized so as to establish close contact with local authorities, with the world of work and the professions. The main aim of the CPIA is to improve adults' level of education and to increase the standard of learning according to the European guidelines, in order to help adults to enter the labour market. Our target learner groups are mainly made up of Italians drop-outs and English, French and Spanish-speaking migrants coming to our centre to learn Italian, get their Middle School Diploma or the Certificate of competence and skills related to the first two-year period of VET Schools”. The CPIA in relation to specific users, delivers literacy courses and Italian language learning aimed at achieving a title attesting knowledge of the language no less than of the Common European Framework level A2 language skills. The certificate of Italian language knowledge at A2 level is useful for issuing the permit to long-term residence (DM 4/6/2010 art. 2 c.1). The CPIA also hosts exams for certification CILS (Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language of the University for Foreigners of Siena).The audience, because of the type of courses offered is made up of Italian citizens and a large number of new non-EU migrants, mostly with a low level of education, who enroll in the Center to learn the Italian language: the presence of not Italian citizenship  young adults is, therefore, a  characteristic element of the CPIA and implies an intercultural approach to foster a dialogue between cultures and the integration of migrants not only adults in the school system but also in the Italian society as a whole .