Certificate - Italian Creativity & Design
- 1 year
- Duration
- 11,500 EUR
- Price
- Nov 2025
- Start
- June 2025
- Deadline
- Certificate
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Como / Italy
- Location
Program description
To prepare pupils for entry into the top Italian universities and academies, this multidisciplinary education program focuses on developing students' creative potential.
Access the Accademia Aldo Galli and IED Italia networks through this course.
The Italian Art and Design Foundation Year Program is widely recognized as a model of academic achievement in the arts. One of its main goals is to spread awareness of the Italian fashion, design, art, and preservation communities.
The Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research (MIUR) has approved a bilingual program for students who want to study the arts, design, fashion, and heritage conservation at the university level but do not yet have the required 12 years of schooling.
Program structure
- History of art
- History of fashion and accessories
- History of design
- Computer design applications (photoshop, illustrator and indesign)
- Workshop (language: italian)
- Drawing shapes and colours
- Building models and materials
- Looking images
- Thinking ideas and projects
- Telling thoughts and strategies
- Italian language and culture
- Coaching and advisory language: italian
- Final exam
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 11500.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
Applicants for the Foundation Year in Italian Language & Creativity must:
- hold an upper secondary school diploma;
- be aged 18 or over by December of the academic year of enrolment;
- follow the admission and enrolment procedure.
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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