Why apply?

IDs promises to be a life-changing experience. It is a cultural endeavor, an occasion to search for roots and identity, and to be connected with the source, while closely interacting with well-known writers and scholars. It is also a great opportunity to visit some areas of Calabria and Basilicata in a not-simply-touristic way and at the lowest possible cost for a quality stay.

Our program is carried out in the territories, involving local villages, people and institutions, in order to better present their life and their rich history and beauty, and to promote a process of growing awareness through immersion – visual, audible, linguistic, culinary – in the places from which the diaspora began and has left many traces.

The objective of the program is to construct a pathway of experiential cultural formation, destined to change, in the participants, the image of South Italy and the meaning of Italian origin.