Our story
Castellanza’s Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici was born as a branch of Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici di Milano, founded in 2005 and named after Prospero Moisé Loria, a late 1800s patron that supported the creation of an organization aimed at improving the condition of the poor by means of education and professional training.
In 2013, with the authorization of Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research by Ministerial Decree, 23rd September 2013 published in the Official Gazette on the 15th October 2013, Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici gains full statutory, didactic, scientific, organizative, financial and accounting autonomy and is thus named Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici Carolina Albasio.
Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici Carolina Albasio is a Non-Economic Public institution (Ente Pubblico Non Economico) authorized to activate and carry out higher education three-year courses for linguistic mediators and to issue its related qualification title, equivalent to all degrees obtained in other Universities at the end of all courses akin to class 3 academic degrees in “Scienze della mediazione linguistica” as described in Ministerial Decree August, 4th 2000, replaced by L-12 class as described in Ministerial Decree March 16th, 2007.
The University is named after Carolina Albasio, (1883-1921), a citizen of Castellanza and student of 1906 Nobel prize in Medicine winner Professor Camillo Golgi. She attended Reale Scuola di Ostetricia di Milano and earned her Diploma di Levatrice at Reale Università di Pavia in 1907, becoming one of the first graduate women in Italy. In the following years she carried out her duty of midwife with the utmost dedication, improving the health conditions of newborns and their mothers in Castellanza.
