“A man who speaks one language is worth one man, a man who speaks two languages is worth two men, a man who speaks three is worth all of humanity.”
African Proverb
We couldn’t agree more. Linguistic diversity is a heritage, it’s the key to ensuring the best possible intercultural understanding and a solid, adamantine exchange between individuals, peoples, and states. Listening and comprehension are crucial elements of evolution
We have shortened distances with increasingly efficient means of transport, but above all with digital connections. We cannot forget the importance of eliminating linguistic distances. Only language professionals can realize this great project by seizing the opportunities of a global and fluid job market.
Providing the tools to experience the world of work without barriers or limitations is one of the fundamental points that drives our mission.
Providing the tools to experience the world of work without barriers or limitations is one of the fundamental points that drives our mission.
The School welcomes students from all over Italy and abroad.
How we do it
The students of the Higher School for Linguistic Mediators of Pisa (SSML Pisa) are required to pass an entrance exam. The limited enrollment and mandatory attendance guarantee small class sizes, which allows for the application of an interactive teaching method, essential for the concrete development of linguistic skills.
The School’s facilities
The students can rely on three technologically advanced language labs where they regularly attend lessons, a computer lab for individual study, a library, and numerous study rooms. The school’s facilities and equipment are available to students even outside of class hours.
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The history
SSML PISA
SINCE 1989
We were born in Pisa in 1989 with a translator’s headset in one hand and the love for languages in the other.
The Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici di Pisa (SSML Pisa University) is part of the Esedra Group, which has been working in the world of education and training since 1977. It has built an educational pathway that starts from the nursery school and reaches the University. Regardless of how diverse and manifold the activities of the different study paths are, one common thread links them all: in our schools, languages are learned.
The corporate demand for profiles with a high-level linguistic preparation has been ongoing for decades, and that is why we work every day: to eliminate the existing gap between university education, which is often too theoretical, and the needs of the world of work.
The choice to create a curriculum that included specific subjects related to linguistic competence, interpreting, and translation, along with subjects that would prepare students to work in a business environment, starts here.
Our languages
| Language A | English |
| Language B | German, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic (NEW) |
| Language C | Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, or Korean (NEW) |
SSML in figures
5
Three-Year Degree Programs (Bachelor)
2
Master’s Degree Programs
10
Spoken languages
3
Degree languages
50
Bilingual Native Speaker Teachers
6
Master’s Programs
400
Partner Companies
98%
Current students
Companies and the region
The International Relations Office, together with the Career Service & Internship Office, have been working for years to sign and maintain relationships with local, national, and international companies with the goal of giving students a preferred pathway to enter the work world.
The School has established over 400 activities and agreements with Companies and Economic Institutions to offer internships to students, seminars with professionals and managers, simulations, and practical exercises.
Governance
The governing bodies define the objectives and issue the general guidelines and priorities for the academic and administrative life of the School.
- Managing Body, represented by the President of the Board of Directors of the Company that manages the School;
- President
- School Director;
- Director of Studies;
- Technical-Scientific and Evaluation Committee
- Head of International Relations
- Head of Career Service and Internship
- Head of Orientation Office
- Academic and Organisational Secretariat
- Faculty Council
- Student Council
President
The President is chosen and appointed by the Managing Body and remains in office for the equivalent period foreseen for the Board of Directors (CdA) that they chair.
The President represents the School at the Ministry of University and Research, in official ceremonies, and is a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee
The President of the Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici of Pisa has been Dr. Aldo Casali since 1989.
Director of Studies
The Academic Goverment Bodies are represented by the Director of Studies and the Faculty Council.
The Director of Studies is entrusted with the responsibility of:
Implementing the academic program, selecting and managing the teaching team and ensuring the safety and well-being of the students during their time on the School premises.
He chairs the Faculty Council , which deliberates on academic matters.
He oversees the academic and scientific activity of the School, and issues the Academic Regulation and the Internal Regulation.
Since 2013, the Director of Studies of the Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici of Pisa has been Prof. Monika Pelz.
Technical-Scientific and Evaluation Committee
The Technical-Scientific and Evaluation Committee (CTSV) has functions of monitoring and evaluating the School’s operation and its scientific and academic results.
The CTS is composed of at least three experts, one of whom must be a University Professor external to the SSML. Each year, it sends a report to the designated Commission of the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) regarding:
The School’s operation and the scientific and academic activity carried out in the immediately preceding year.
The program for the following academic year.
The President of the Technical-Scientific and Evaluation Committee (CTSV) is Prof. Maria Luisa Cerron Puga.
Head of International Relations
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Head of the Orientation Office
This Office is responsible for:
Communication activities with Students and their Families; disseminating the educational offer provided by SSML Pisa in High Schools through Teachers, the Headmaster, and University Orientation contacts and communicating orientation activities and projects supporting Students.
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Academic and Organisational Secretariat
This Office is responsible for welcoming students and new enrollments. It manages enrollment and registration. It requests certificates and diplomas. It organizes extracurricular courses, tutoring, translation, interpretation, and reading services. It accepts resumes and applications. It issues diplomas. It duplicates documents. It issues certificates of attendance and achievement. It coordinates and tutors the program, organizes teaching programs for teachers, organizes office hours for teachers, liaises with students on the program, and organizes the class schedule.
The Heads of the Academic and Organisational Secretariat are Eleonora Costantino, Lucia D’Ambra, and Davide Fiorentini.
