For groups
Build your program
Four decisions, in this order. Beside each one is what it implies, because these decisions act on each other: the month changes which stops are possible, the number changes the format, the days change the final document.
On this page
1. How many you are
| If you are | What it implies |
|---|---|
| fewer than 8 | The classroom program does not open. What is left is the experiences, which have lower minimums, and individual enrollment in an intake with published dates, alongside other people |
| 8 to 15 | This is the size everything is designed for. Every stop works without splitting the group, group rates apply and one accompanying person is enough |
| 16 to 26 | Some visits get split into two shifts and the day runs longer. For an experience it is usually still workable; for the classroom program it is reorganized and quoted separately |
| more than 26 | This is a different itinerary, not the same one with more places in it. It is designed as two parallel groups with two accompanying people, and the cost per person does not fall |
2. How many days
| If you choose | What it implies |
|---|---|
| 2-7 days | This is an experience. No classroom hours and no certificate of attendance: what is issued is a certificate of participation, which is a different document, and we say so rather than leave it to interpretation |
| 15 days | This is the multi-country route. It uses up 15 of the 90 Schengen days and runs in January |
| 28 days | This is an intensive program: 100 hours in person, 25 a week, certificate of attendance at the end and completion certificate ninety days later |
| 85 days | This is the extended program: 180 hours, 15 a week across three days, with one specialization and a commissioned project |
| more than 90 days | It does not exist. Above 90 days in any 180 a national type D visa is required, and for that the consulate asks for documents we do not have today |
3. Which subjects
| If you choose | What it implies |
|---|---|
| a single subject | The route goes deep and the final deliverable is one finished thing |
| two subjects | In 28 days it can be done, but the final deliverable stays with one of them and the second subject becomes a thread running through. In fewer than 28 days it is not done |
| three subjects in an intensive | We do not do it. It would turn into a survey, and a four-week survey costs the same as a route and leaves nothing finished |
| a specialization | Only on the extended program, and it is chosen at admission, not along the way |
4. Which month
| If you choose | What it implies |
|---|---|
| January | Italy is the wrong decision. Companies reopen after 6 January, on the Amalfi Coast a good part of everything is closed and the coast road can stay cut for days. In January we propose the urban and Nordic route, which is designed for that month |
| February-April | This is the clearest Italian window: low season, companies operating, stops available. It is also the most requested, so it has to be booked earlier |
| May-July | Workable. In April and in June some cities hold trade fairs that fill the hotels and move the prices, and we write that into the quotation |
| August | Not done. Part of Italian industry closes |
| September-November | A second good window, on the same terms as February-April |
| December | Up to mid-month it works, after that it does not |
→ Month by month, what is open
What can be added to it
The training program is the trunk. Around it five things get mounted, or not, each with its own price in the quotation and none of them hidden inside a total.
Experience days. The intensives already include two at the weekend, and the extended program four. If you want more, they are added from the catalog. Transfers. The ones the program needs are included. The intercontinental flight never is. Accommodation. Not included. It is a separate option with its own price written out. The final document. The certificate of attendance and the completion certificate come with the programs. On the experiences a certificate of participation is issued. The report for the institution. Always included, never an extra.
The six lines to copy into an email
Who is asking? (it is the first question, and it changes everything else) ◯ Student · ◯ Family member · ◯ Head of a student body · ◯ Institutional administration
Institution — full name Country Estimated participants — a number, even a rough one Preferred month and alternative month Days available Subjects of interest — one or several Is the invoice made out to the institution? ◯ Yes · ◯ No, individual enrollments · ◯ I do not know yet Is there an internal deadline to meet? — which one and when Notes — anything useful that does not fit the fields above
Who is writing — role and contact details
☐ I have read that the programs award no qualifications with official value and carry no academic credits.
Write to the head of international programs copying the answers above into the message. No form is required and we do not record who writes: what we need in order to quote is in those six lines, and we reply within two working days.
What happens next
Within two working days a person replies, not an automated message, and if anything is missing it is all asked for in that same reply. Within five working days of the complete request the written quotation arrives, with the draft program, the stops and the status of each one, the hours, the costs and the two invoicing options. The quotation stands for 30 days, and we say so because an office needs to know by when it has to decide. If you go ahead, contract and a 30% deposit, and from there the visit requests go out.
This program does not lead to a qualification with official value. Istituto Belmonte is a private Italian training institute. Its programs do not award qualifications with official value in Italy or in Mexico and carry no academic credits. A certificate of attendance is issued.