The Language Centre (CLA) of the University of Basilicata is a centralised structure, situated in the ex- EANOLI (Rione Francioso) complex at Via Nazario Sauro 85 in Potenza. On the ground floor there are the multimedia language laboratories (A1, A2), the self-access laboratory (A3) as well as a traditional analogical language laboratory (A4) with a digital control console. On the first floor there is another traditional analogical language laboratory (A5), a meeting room, a computer room, a materials consultation room as well as the offices of the CLA secretary, specialised technicians and administrative manager. On the second floor there is the CLA President's office as well as the Technical Director's. There is also the audiovisual room as well as the studies of the ex-Foreign Language Lecturers and Foreign Language Assistants of the four languages currently being studied at the University (click here in order to see the video presentation of our centre).

The CLA was co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Scientific & Technological Research (MURST) and the European Union as part of the Multi-regional project 1994/99 “Research, Technological Development and Higher Formation”. The University's Academic Senate deliberated the CLA in February 2000. The memorandum of association sets out the CLA's main objectives, which include guaranteeing linguistic formation for all within the University, experimenting new foreign language teaching and learning methodologies with the aid of new innovative technologies, promoting and organising language courses, promoting foreign exchanges as well as collaborating with other scholars, Institutions and schools both within as well outside of the Basilicata region. The staff of the CLA is made up of the President, the Technical Director, 11 permanent, full-time ex- Foreign Language Lecturers and Foreign Language Assistants as well as native-speaker French, English, German and Spanish contract teachers, the permanent full-time technical-administrative staff as well as specialised contract technicians. The work carried out by the CLA is planned and managed by its Technical-Scientific Committee (CTS).