Istituto Venezia is officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education. It is a member of:

Asils  (Association of Schools for Italian as Second Language) which is partner of Elite (European Federation of National Associations for Teaching Mother Tongue to Foreign Students);
Tandem International (Network of Quality Language Institutes)
Since 1995, Istituto Venezia has been promoting and supporting the teaching of the Italian language and:

It coordinates and teaches the Venice International University's courses of Italian for foreigners (V.I.U. is Università Ca' Foscari, Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Ludwigs Maximilian Universität-Munich, Tel Aviv University, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and Duke University).

It runs internships and stages for the Postgraduate program "Teaching Italian to Foreigners" of Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Laboratorio Itals).It selects the I.U.A.V. students who will be part of the Socrates/Erasmus study abroad program.It hosts Intercultura international association's Italian classes.

It organizes and teaches several American universities study abroad programs.The Istituto Venezia teaching staff is highly qualified. All teachers have attended special education seminars and teaching training programs, in particular the "Itals Master Program" (Italian as second language) of Ca' Foscari University. They all have a long experience as teachers of Italian to foreign students. Teachers work in team and arrange daily meeting in order to organize the different teaching sections; they regularly update the teaching material, discuss and compare different teaching techniques.

People from all over the world have been attending our courses. Every month we welcome new students at all levels and with a wide variety of needs. For the most part, they come from Europe, United States and the Far East. Of course, we also have students from South America, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East.

The average age of the students range from 20 to 40, but there are students of every age in the classrooms.
The teaching methodology is based upon a fully communicative approach that promotes and encourages students’ active participation. This methodology aims at developing oral and written communication skills. A wide variety of up-to-date authentic material is used in class as valuable examples of real communication, thus introducing the students to Italian culture and society.

The main communication skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing - are equally investigated and gradually developed.

Most of the work in class focuses on the development of authentic communication skills, by using communication tasks and procedures based upon pair or group work; emphasis is also put on the reflection on linguistic structures and lexicon.