Intercultura is a non-governmental organisation, recognised by the Italian government, operated by over 3,000 volunteers in 130 chapters all over Italy, and belonging to the international networks of AFS Intercultural Programs and of EFIL, the European Federation for Intercultural Learning. Thanks to these affiliations Intercultura has a consultative status at the Unesco and in the Council of Europe.

In more than 50 countries, AFS is an international, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and peaceful world.To learn more about AFS 90 yers history, please start the AFS interactive timeline.

As an AFS partner, Intercultura promotes and offers a lifelong intercultural learning experience, sending every year about 1.500 Italian high school pupils to live and study abroad, and welcomes in Italy young students from all over the world, hosting them in Italy in our families and our schools.

The School Program abroad

The School Program offered by Intercultura is for one academic year, semester ,trimester or bimester and begins in July/ August/ September depending on the country. Intercultura students live with a host family and attend a local secondary school as full-time students. These programs focus on homestays, school attendence, language skills, cultural activities. Participants mostly live with host families, participate in educational activities and enjoy their new communities. To find out more about programs you may be interested in, including the participation costs and any scholarship possibilities, please see the pages in Italian of the section http://www.intercultura.it/All%27estero-con-Intercultura/

Programs in Italy
For more than 50 years Intercultura has been offering to an increasing number of families the opportunity to host a young student coming from another country. Hosting a young student from another country implies the constant comparison with different habits and the chance to see the world from another point of view. Guided meetings between cultures can generate new intercultural competences that help to solve or to prevent potential conflicts. That’s why, thanks to its years long experience, Intercultura can walk at the side of the students and their families for all the period of their intercultural growth.Foreing students interested in participating into an exchange program in italy have to apply through the partner organisation affiliated to Intercultura and AFS. For a complete list, please see www.afs.org