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Italy, Genoa
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Deledda International School (DIS) was created by the Genoa City Council in 1999 and established by Ignazio Venzano in 2000. The Genoa Municipality acknowledged the school as an in-house institution in 2000. In July 2001, the IBO authorized DIS to offer a two-year Diploma Programme, with the first graduates in May 2003. By 2004, DIS had grown to a four-year high school with an English-language international curriculum, and in 2006 it became an IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) school. Since January 2011, DIS has been managed by Fondazione Urban Lab Genoa International School (FULGIS), which also manages Liceo Linguistico Grazia Deledda and Istituto Duchessa di Galliera, and in 2012 DIS strengthened its MYP relationship through certification. In 2016, bilingual elementary classes were introduced.
The school is led by a Head of School ad interim, a DP Coordinator, a MYP Coordinator and a PYP Coordinator guiding its IB programmes. The primary curriculum blends the Italian system with IB philosophy and enhanced English language learning, using a transdisciplinary approach that centers on the student. The community emphasizes living respectfully in a multicultural environment, maintaining a highly qualified teaching staff, fostering mutual respect and shared values, promoting empathy and social responsibility, and encouraging cooperation to care for the community and the world. The school hosts events and exhibitions such as the Primary School Exhibition and the MYP Personal Project Exhibition, and runs clubs including a DISMUN club, along with service and CAS activities.
Deledda International School in Genoa, Italy, offers the International Baccalaureate continuum alongside Cambridge Secondary. The Primary Years Programme is in candidate status, while the MYP and DP provide IB experience across eight subject groups, including Language and Literature with Italian A and English A, and Language Acquisition in Italian B, English B, and several other languages. Each subject group receives at least 50 hours of instruction annually, and MYP Year 5 culminates in a Personal Project. ATL and ATT frameworks support learning across all IB stages, fostering communication, collaboration, self-management, critical and creative thinking, and intercultural understanding. The campus in central Genoa features science laboratories, a modern library, two computer laboratories, and interactive classrooms, with MYP Junior Science Lab added in 2013. The school runs service and CAS initiatives, a Model United Nations club, and exhibitions, plus a university and career counselor, and a bilingual elementary program started in 2016.
