Your Place in Florence
Description: Your Place in Florence is a Center which offers accommodation in a well-furnished and equipped apartment with the facilities and services usually characterized by a luxury hotel. Based in 3 locations around Florence Palazzo Belfiore, Palazzo San Niccolò and Palazzo Del Moro.
Their residences represent the uniqueness of the Santo Spirito, San Niccolò and Santa Maria Novella district, offering a place for guests to have an authentic and truly memorable experience. Every suite is uniquely designed and furnished, adding to the magic of living in the heart of Florence.
Students who intern at Your Place in Florence will be tasked with promotion initiatives, showcasing the apartments, social media management and community outreach as well as supporting the Your Place in Florence team.
Location: Via dei Velluti 15R-Florence FI
Website: http://yourplaceinflorence.com/
Contact: Elena Piani info@yourplaceinflorence.com
Uffizi Gallery
Description: The Uffizi is one of the most, if not the most, important Italian museums. The organization is composed by several departments, each of which has a specific goal, such as: organizing exhibitions, information to visitors, custody of the exhibited objects, description of art-historical objects, collaboration with primary and secondary schools, management of library and archives, management of the photographic department, communication department (information through the Internet) ; computer science department and much more.
Students who intern here are assigned a job of bibliographical researches, inventory description and labeling of books, which prepares the real cataloging of the books. They will be tasked with text catalogue management, book organizing, filing new entries and organizing general layout among other things.
Location: Piazzale degli Uffizi 6-Florence FI
Website: https://www.uffizi.it/en/the-uffizi/prints-and-drawings
Contacts:
- Library - Carla Basagni: carla.basagni@beniculturali.it
- Drawings and Print- Laura Donati: laura.donati@beniculturali.it
Image Architects
Description: Image is a vibrant and proactive communication agency with international capability and is dedicated to serving the publicity needs of architects and designers. We are a step ahead of the most traditional and generic communication agencies. We combine our deep understanding of architecture with strategic networking skills, underpinned with an innate sensibility for PR and social media and enriched by a unique and solid experience on architectural communication in video. Students who intern here will assist with the daily operations of the Architecture firm including project development, sponsorship, outreach and creative input
Location: Via XX Settembre, 84-Florence, FI
Website: https://www.image-web.org/
Contact: Marco Brizzi: marco.brizzi@image-web.org
Precious Villas
Description: Precious Villas is Based in Florence (Italy) and London (UK) with ten years of combined experience, Precious Villas Exclusive Real Estate is the source for the who, what, where, when and why of luxury real estate in Tuscany and beyond.
Their collection of city center, countryside and coastal properties is unsurpassed and includes some of the most sought-after real estate in the world. Students who intern here will be tasked with business promotion, social media management, receptionist operations and outreach.
Students here will be tasked with social media marketing (research, writing, planning), blog writing for the official website, observation and correction of the website and social media profiles, write descriptions for the webpage in English.
Location: Via Pasquale Villari 39, Florence FI
Website: https://www.preciousvillas.com/
Contact: Aruna Jacobs: info@preciousvillas.com
Studio Lauria
Description: Studio Lauria operates in retail and hospitality as well as in office and cultural spaces. We also work on restoration and re-use buildings. Always we put our experience in urbanism into play believing in the value of public space and in the city as a meeting place. We manage an integrated approach to the design, providing the best coordination between architectural issues, systems and structural requirements. We design according to network logics, multiplying talent and resources. Joining professionals from different cultures and countries to provide exclusive projects. Creating an open infrastructure to manage projects recognizable for the creativity and the ability to include sustainability in recovering building as well as in drawing new spaces.
Students who intern here will assist with the daily operations of the Architecture firm including project development, sponsorship, outreach and creative input
Location: Via Masaccio 190-Florence, FI
Website: https://www.studiolauria.net/home-it
Contact: Daniele Lauria: daniele@studiolauria.net
UNESCO
Description: The UNESCO center of Florence is an NGO which is non-for-profit since its founding in 1971 which develops and sponsors cultural, social and cooperative activities at the local and international level. It promotes the principles of the Organization for Education, Science and culture of the United Nations.
Their vision and idea is that ‘seeing as wars begin in the mind of men it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be build’ (UNESCO, 1945). They seek to realize this prospective by ‘contributing to building peace, eradicating poverty, developing sustainability and promoting intercultural dialogue through education, science, culture and information communication (UNESCO, 1945)
Students interning in UNESCO are tasked with developing personal projects/research initiatives in line with UNESCO's mission as well as assisting in cultural city events.
Location: Via Giampaolo Orsini, 44-Florence, FI
Website: http://www.centrounescofi.it/
Contact: Vittorio Gasparrini: presidenza@centrounescofi.it
Galleria il Bisonte
Description: Il Bisonte is a foundation whose activities are split in two main directions: the school/studio and the gallery/archive. In the School/studio are offered classes in the printmaking techniques, artists residencies, printing service, studio space renting; in the gallery/archive are set up exhibitions of printmakers, is hosted our historical collection and the donated collections, it is moreover the secretariat of the school and some of the activity here done regards the school.
The main focus of our institution is to spread the appreciation for art prints and the skill to produce them, both introducing new artists to it and offering specialization to printmakers. Studio: helping the teachers and seniors assistants, cleaning and setting order, moving around doing what the teachers say, social media, translate of some technical texts
Student interns are responsible for:
- Gallery/archive/secretariat:
- Internet research
- Social media managing
- Translate some texts (critic’s texts and/or marketing texts)
- Setting order to old archives (photos, letters, prints).
- Studio:
- Helping the teachers and seniors assistants
- Cleaning and setting order
- Moving around doing what the teachers say
- Social media
- Translate of some technical texts.
Location: Via del Parione, 31-Florence, FI
Website: https://www.ilbisonte.com/it-it/?
Contact: Simone Guaita: info@ilbisonte.it
Essère Atelier
Description: Essère is a local Fashion boutique in Florence founded in 1997 by Ilaria Tolossi which focuses on fashion merchandising, outfit creation, cloth cutting, and sales operations. Students who intern here will be asked to assist with product creation, development and marketing. Marketing interns will have to keep up with the social media posts, come up with captivating captions for each post, and post an Instagram story every day. They will also be in charge of the blog, the website and photoshoots. Ilaria Tolossi also requires the interns to put together at least one event in the semester and be in charge of the advertising of the event through posts on Instagram, Facebook and fliers. Fashion designing interns will help create clothing, cut fabric, sew on buttons, tags and other manual tasks of the like.
Location: Via dei Pandolfini, 7/r-Florence, FI
Website: http://www.esserefirenze.com/
Contact: Ilaria Tolossi: esserest@hotmail.com
Lottozero Textiles
Description: Lottozero is a research center for textile design, art and culture. Lottozero’s mission is to create a fertile environment for textile research and experimentation in design and art, and an international base for networking in the textile sector. They encourage and support the development of emerging talents of textile art and design through international scouting and targeted residencies in their headquarters in Prato, one of the main textile districts of Europe. We bring talented, motivated, young European artists to Prato. We initiate an exchange between local textile production companies and creative from all over the world.
Student interns will be working with the art team, assisting the curator in the following tasks: research of artists, open calls and art fairs, exhibition’s planning and organization, exhibition preparation and set up, preparing flyers and other basic informational material (writing texts and lay out),PR and communication on social media, website, newspaper and other media forms, support artists in residence.
Working with the design team, the student will be assisting the Art Director and design team with the following tasks: test machines and techniques, create textile samples and make sample books, organize and try out materials, write down instructions for the machines or recipes, support designers in residence, support teaching and workshop activities, help with the organization of the event Fashion revolution Fair, help with the organization of the project launch “Circular Wool”
Location: Via Arno, 10, 59100 Prato
Website: http://www.lottozero.org/
Contact: Arianna Moroder: arianna@lottozero.org
The Florentine
Description: The Florentine Magazine is a small, highly creative and very hardworking team - they are always open to ideas. While providing guidance and feedback, they expect interns to be enterprising individuals who take initiative: the basis of all good journalism. All interns must have an advanced level of Italian in order to benefit from the bilingual work method. Interns gain a very real sense of what goes on in an editorial team: copy editing and proofreading; interviewing and writing; pitching article ideas; researching news outlets; translating and conveying in English news taken from Italian primary sources; attending press conferences and events; developing photo essays and reportage; social media strategy and commercial strategy; photojournalism and video journalism.
Location: via dei Banchi 4, 50123 Florence, FI
Website: https://www.theflorentine.net/
Contact: Helen Farrel: h.farrell@theflorentine.net
Florence News
Description: Florence newspaper is a cultural association dedicated to news of Florence in english for the city’s international inhabitants and visitars. The newspaper mostly targets tourist and students in Florence but locals read it as well. Here, student interns may work in one of three roles: editor/social media editor, photographer, or video maker. Editors research and record information, write articles, deal with public relations, report on events, edit articles and attend important conferences. Photographers take pictues for the monthly issues as well as for social media. Videographers, instead, take videos for the Florence News TV program.
Location: Via di Ripoli 24, 50126, Florence, FI
Website: http://www.florencenews.it/
Contact: Lorenzo Picchi: fnewev@gmail.com
Casa Boccaccio
Description: Casa Boccaccio, or Boccaccio’s House, is a cultural institute founded in 1957 in Certaldo, in the hills outside of Florence, dedicated to the preservation and the development of the works of Giovanni Boccaccio. It is comprised of a directive and scientific counsel whose mission is to caretake the House of Giovanni Boccaccio; restoring and curating it with the contribution of the local government, bank foundations and student interns. The Casa Boccaccio center organizes exhibitions and conferences on the work of Boccaccio and organizes didactic activities in the schools to spread the knowledge on the historical figure who was Boccaccio. Student interns are tasked with research, online text cataloguing, assisting in the library, providing illustrations for Boccaccio’s text, translating tomes and promoting the writer’s work to the local public.
Location: Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio – Via Boccaccio n. 18, 50052 Certaldo, FI
Website: http://www.enteboccaccio.it/s/casa-boccaccio/page/home
Contact: Stefano Zamponi and Nunzia Morosini: info@casaboccaccio.it
Swan Gym
Description: The Swan Gym is a local gymnasium in the heart of the Florentine City, a couple of blocks away from the FSU Study Center. In this gym, people from all backgrounds come to exercise and take classes. Student Interns are asked to work on the public relations and marketing aspect of the gym relating to international clients specifically. Through social media management, in person promotional initiatives and logo designs, among other, interns will be dealing quite a bit with American studets in Florence and strengthening relation between this demographic and the Swan Gym
Location: Via dei Pepi 28, 50122, FI
Website: http://www.palestraswan.net/
Contact: Maurizio di Sorco: info@palestraswan.net
