{"id":116,"date":"2023-04-03T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/lingua-e-cultura\/certificazioni\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:30:49","slug":"certificazioni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/lingua-e-cultura\/certificazioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CILS exams at the Italian Institute of Culture \u2013 Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CILS is a certification of proficiency in Italian as a foreign language offered by the Universit\u00e0 per Stranieri di Siena (<a href=\"https:\/\/cils.unistrasi.it\/\"><strong>more info on the CILS website<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh is a recognized centre of CILS exams. More information on how to enrol and exam dates are available below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Next exam date: 3 December 2026 <\/strong>(levels A1 &#8211; upon request -, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2)<br \/>\n<strong>If you are interested in taking the exam, please get in touch at <a href=\"mailto:corsi.iicedimburgo@esteri.it\">corsi.iicedimburgo@esteri.it<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students of Italian, people working with Italy or want to obtain a long-stay permit, people who want to have their competence in Italian assessed can take a CILS certification exam. The CILS Certification tests are not linked to particular methods or types of language courses: each candidate can prepare for the CILS certification exams in the way they consider most appropriate and most suitable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CILS certification system covers six levels of linguistic-communicative competence as per the Council of Europe&#8217;s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Each CILS level is autonomous, the levels assess progressively higher linguistic-communicative competence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each CILS exam assesses five language skills: listening skills, reading comprehension, written production, oral production, analysis of the structures of communication in Italian. To obtain the certificate it is necessary to reach a sufficiency level in each skill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not necessary to have any particular qualifications to take the CILS exam, but only a knowledge of the Italian language corresponding to the parameters indicated for each CILS level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>For more information, please email <a href=\"mailto:corsi.iicedimburgo@esteri.it\">corsi.iicedimburgo@esteri.it<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CILS exams at the Italian Institute of Culture \u2013 Edinburgh CILS is a certification of proficiency in Italian as a foreign language offered by the Universit\u00e0 per Stranieri di Siena (more info on the CILS website). The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh is a recognized centre of CILS exams. More information on how to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8741,"parent":99,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/11012"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}