The Clarence Bicknell Association offers its congratulations to Dssa. Daniela Gandolfi of the Museo Bicknell in Bordighera for the new arrangement with the eminent Vilnius University for student exchanges and internships as announced in the Italian press today, 23 December 2025….
by DONATELLA LAURIA, BORDIGHERA – for the Italian newspaper Il Secolo XIX.
University Linguistics and Italian Literature
The Museo Bicknell in Bordighera is becoming an international university centre. Not a simple academic partnership, but a real European bridge for the new generations of philologists and cultural operators: on the one hand, the treasure of knowledge kept by the Museo Bicknell, the International Institute of Ligurian Studies; on the other, the teaching excellence of the Department of Linguistics and Italian Literature of Vilnius University. 
Just recently some students spent in the splendid setting of Bicknell, two intense months of study, research and work. Synergy has transformed Erasmus+ summer internships into significant training experiences, projecting students directly to the heart of cultural valorisation thanks to the vision of Baltist Diego Ardoino of Vilnius University and Dssa. Daniela Gandolfi, Director of the Museo Bicknell and its owner the International Institute of Ligurian Studies.
The above is just an excerpt from a longer article.
Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
The International Institute of Ligurian Studies, founded by Nino Lamboglia, has continued the work of the Museo Bicknell of Bordighera since 1937, conceived by the Englishman Clarence Bicknell in 1888 and established as a non-profit organization since 1924, and of the Ingauna and Intemelia Historical-Archaeological Society, founded in 1932 in Albenga and Ventimiglia. It is an autonomous association, open to all scholars and people of culture who are interested in the study and valorisation of history and archaeology, ancient monuments and regional tradition, throughout the north-western arc of the Mediterranean which was originally populated by the Ligurians and which is linked to the Ligurian environment by relationships of affinity and common descent.