Our school
VITTORIA SCHOOL for Language Mediators (SSML) is part of Excellence in Foreign Languages, a Turin learning centre which offers a wide range of taught courses.
THREE YEAR COURSE IN LANGUAGE MEDIATION
This three year course is valid for 180 CFU university credits, leading to a final qualification of a first level university DEGREE (legally recognized). The courses consist of in-depth teaching and study of foreign languages across a wide range of multimedia experiences. Students can choose between a variety of core language combinations: English-French, English-German, English-Spanish, English-Russian. Graduates from this degree course are qualified to enter the working world directly or to continue with a higher degree in language studies, specifically the two year Masters courses in Translation and/or Conference Interpreting.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF VITTORIA SSML
Vittoria School for Language Mediators has always regarded change as the driving force behind development, and as a necessary condition for growth. Therefore, since its foundation, our School has often chosen to renew its course structure and academic programs, taking an active role in the internationalizing of the university world, a process fostered by an ever increasing number of foreign students and teachers, and a growing openness toward multiculturalism. The aim of the School is to provide students with rigorous basic training, giving them the knowledge and skill set they need to develop the competences essential to a professional linguistic mediator, in both the public and private sectors. This we achieve through active learning, cultural exchange, meetings with professionals working in the field and internships in Italian and foreign companies and organizations.
PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS
VITTORIA SSML operates in collaboration with the following organizations:
- E.Di.S.U. (Ente per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario della Regione Piemonte), the Piedmont region’s agency for facilitating university access, offers scholarships to students enrolled at our school. These are awarded on the basis of an assessment of family income/size and academic merit.
- The Agenzia formativa tuttoEUROPA advanced education centre, since 1968, has been offering language courses in the welcoming atmosphere of our spacious, modern facilities. The school is also an authorised exam centre for Cambridge English Assessment.
- The Agenzia formativa tuttoEUROPA provides advanced training for students specializing in translation and interpreting. Our one-year, post-graduate diploma courses are completely free of charge and are aimed at developing practical, professional skills and specialized competences.
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INTERNATIONALISATION
SSML VITTORIA partecipates in the European Union’s Erasmus Plus Programme in the fields of Education, Training, Youth and Sport, a programme intended to promote mobility of students and university teachers by means of bilateral agreements with other universities in Europe. The Erasmus Programme enables students to spend part of their undergraduate years studying abroad, attending courses and other activities at a foreign university. At the end of the study period abroad the student can sit for exams and thus gain transferable university credits.
Students of French (as their second language) can follow the double graduation programme (Double Degree in Foreign Language Studies/Langues étrangères appliquées”), which has been created through a collaboration between SSML Vittoria and Paul Valéry Montpellier3. At the end of this course of study, the student will graduate with both a French and Italian degree.
SSML VITTORIA has also entered into bilateral agreements for international student mobility with the universities of Tbilisi (Georgia), Beirut (Lebanon), Famagosta (Cyprus), Poltava (Ukraine), and Moscow (Russia).
Erasmus + is the EU’s program 2014/2020 to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. This program came into effect on January 1st, 2014 in order to provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain experience and volunteer abroad.
Erasmus + combines and integrates the 7 funding mechanisms implemented by the European Union until 2013: the Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and Grundtvig), Youth in Action and the 5 international cooperation programs (Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink and the bilateral cooperation program with industrialized countries).
The Erasmus + Programme implements the following Actions:
- Key Action 1 – Mobility of individuals
- Key Action 2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
- Key Action 3 – Support for policy reform
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Erasmus + National Agency INDIRE
In order to undertake an Erasmus + experience with the SSML Vittoria, foreign students must follow the selection procedure of their Home University. The University will then provide the names of the students who are allowed to apply for a period of study in our School, by sending an e-email to the SSML Vittoria International Relations Office.
The Erasmus+ experience in our School is available upon submission of a signed and implemented bilateral Erasmus agreement between the two institutions.
As soon as possible, the selected student must send the following documentation duly completed and signed to the Erasmus Office (by mail to the address: Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici Vittoria, Via delle Rosine 14 – 10123 Torino, Italia; by electronic mail to the address: erasmus@ssmlto.it):
- Erasmus+ Student_Application_Form_incoming
- learning agreement studies (study program to be carried out in Italy); it is possible to have access to all activated courses by checking our website ssmlto.it
For a first semester or a whole academic year Erasmus stay, it is necessary to send the required documentation by June 5th of each year, while for a second semester Erasmus stay, by October 30th.
The Erasmus Office will inform the student about the acceptance of his/her application.
After arriving at SSML Vittoria, the student is required to contact the International Relations Office on an agreed date in order to both complete the registration forms and obtain the college transcript.
Our University will sign the Erasmus+ Incoming Attestation (the form is usually released by the student’s Home University). This attestation will state the starting date of the stay.
The student must then compare the courses listed in the Learning Agreement for studies (previously sent to the International Relations Office together with the application) with the updated courses planning and, if necessary, amend the original plan with the help of the Erasmus coordinator.
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