Origins
From the school of Croton to the Villages of Wisdom.
In the 6th century BC Pythagoras made Croton the seat of a school where mathematics, music, ethics and politics were studied together, within a community. The Programme takes up that model: one place, one community, one body of knowledge that holds the disciplines together.
From 2008 to today.
The main milestones of the Programme, from its beginnings in Santa Severina and Fuscaldo to the Summer Peace University in Belvedere Marittimo.
Fyodor Bronnikov, Pythagoreans' Hymn to the Rising Sun (1869) (opening image)
- 6th c. BCPythagoras founds his school in Croton.
- 2005l'IsCaPI is founded at the University of Calabria.
- 2008The Programme begins in Santa Severina, a few kilometres from Pythagoras' Croton, and in Fuscaldo: the first Italian language and culture courses and the first advanced training and arts activities.
- 2009First Summer Peace University; theatre exchange with the University of Waterloo (Canada); European Language Label for vocational language training.
- 2010Le Muse project between Calabria and Patagonia, with the Province of Río Negro.
- 2011Pilot project in Fuscaldo: 130 Egyptian students and 6 tutors at the Istituto Fermi.
- 2012Programme Agreement with the Calabria Region; the partnership with Egypt begins, which over five years will bring 323 Egyptian students to Calabrian schools →; Bocchigliero joins; cooperation agreement with the Government of Río Negro, Argentina.
- 2013Agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq: until 2018 Kurdish students attend the upper secondary schools of Scigliano, Sant'Agata d'Esaro and Diamante, living in their boarding facilities. →
- 2014First summer school of Italian language and culture in the historic centre of Belvedere Marittimo; memorandum of understanding with Paraguay's Ministry of Women.
- 2015Approval by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR); on 22 September, in Santa Severina, memorandum of understanding with Paraguay's Ministry of Labour; on 25 September the Programme, selected as a programme of excellence in the VivaioScuole project (MIUR - Expo Milano 2015), is presented at the Italy Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015. →
- 2016Recognition by the Argentine Senate; first Mondinsieme national seminar in San Demetrio Corone; Italy-Paraguay pilot project with Paraguay's Ministry of Labour and the SNPP, between Santa Severina and the IIS Einaudi in Palmi. →
- 2017Second Mondinsieme national seminar at the Castle of Santa Severina.
- 2018On 6 June, at the Museo del Presente in Rende, the Kurdish students present «Oceani di plastica» (Oceans of Plastic), on Goals 12 and 14 of the 2030 Agenda. Axis II concludes its work in Calabrian schools. →
- 2023First edition of the Matrioska Music Festival; renewal of the cultural cooperation agreement with the Province of Río Negro, Patagonia.
- 2026Third edition of the Summer Peace University in Belvedere Marittimo; the fourth will be held in Egypt in 2027.
25 September 2015 · Expo Milano
At the Italy Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015.
In 2015 the Programme was selected as a programme of excellence in the VivaioScuole project, organised by MIUR with Expo Milano 2015 as part of Progetto Scuola. On 25 September it was presented at the Italy Pavilion, in collaboration with the Regional Education Office for Calabria, with students and teachers from the IIS in Diamante, the lead school, and the IPA in Scigliano.
VivaioScuole brought together 736 projects from schools of every type and level, from all of Italy's regions. The presentation concluded the pathway of the 2014/2015 school year, devoted to the themes of Expo: water, biodiversity, the sustainable city, the women who feed the world.
The first summers.
l'IsCaPI - Calabrian Institute of International Policies
A training, research and study institute on international politics and economics, founded in 2005 at the University of Calabria by a group of scholars and lecturers of the Faculty of Political Science. The Pitagora Mundus Programme brings together all its activities.