What led your path to working with ISTITUTO EUROPEO?
The managers of the European Institute always made me feel comfortable and allowed me to grow professionally. Teaching at the European Institute is fun and enjoyable because everyone is involved but at the same time everyone—teachers and students—has left space for personal needs, professional growth, and knowledge of Italian culture and language.
Can you tell us about your role as the Program Coordinator?
My role is to welcome the students and, according to their needs and their characteristics, to identify together the path to be followed and the objectives to be achieved. My desire and my role push me to encourage students towards goals that we believe are within reach of students.
You are also a teacher. Can you tell us about this experience?
I love being a teacher because it's the best way to learn. I am grateful to all my students—of all ages and from all countries—to know them is a privilege that is continually renewed and I discover my language and its secrets together with them.
The relationship that develops between me and my students and the knowledge of different cultures make the work of a teacher a gift to be kept. At the beginning of each course these relationships seems to start all over again, in understanding the language of the students and their characteristics. After a while, thanks to the alchemy between the students and between them and the teacher, the course comes to life and so also the journey between different cultures.
Why do you do what you do?
As I said, I love being a teacher to learn from other people. And this is what inspire me.
I love teaching—it has been always what I wished to do, and luckily I managed. I can add that I love my language and it is a pleasure to share it and to help others to appreciate it.
How do you use your experience as a teacher in your Program Coordinator role?
My experience suggests that reception and availability are very important in this role and I can build a path on this basis. My goal is to try to establish a relationship of trust with my students from the first moment, making them understand that it is necessary to build the course together to reach our goals.
What is your favorite part of your job?
The relationship of trust that is established between me and my students. It strikes me that the class becomes a more harmonious little world than the one outside. Feeling student progress is rewarding. Their ability to communicate improves along with the esteem I have of me as a teacher. It is something unique.
Why should students choose to participate in ISTITUTO EUROPEO programs?
The professionalism of the teachers, their sympathy, and their availability. The Institute is welcoming from the point of view of the structures and the human one. The European Institute is a very welcoming school because it always helps students in their requests and because it offers them beautiful and elegant spaces to study or take a break with company or alone.
What major lessons do you hope students take away from their experience?
I hope the students bring with them the impression of having learned while having fun. I need the effort and the will of the training in another language, but I would be happy to know from my students that they were able to train in a fun and conducive to learning environment.
What does meaningful travel mean to you?
Traveling for me has meaning in itself. No matter where I go and how I go, the journey is important. You have the chance to discover something new about yourself. Each place and each person can help you with that.
Why is it important to travel and experience new cultures?
Traveling and getting to know new cultures is essential to understand that every man is a bearer of a deep dignity, which must be respected and loved. In this way all the prejudices that inevitably lead us fall behind and if some stereotype can reveal some little truth, most of them fall in front of the incredible and extraordinary singularity and variety of every man.
What hopes do you have for the future of ISTITUTO EUROPEO programs?
I hope that it continues on this path, because it is a good mix of culture, professionalism, friendship, and adequate facilities for learning.
