These are the years of maximum development of the ESI's activities. In 2002 in fact, the similar activities promoted until then by the counterpart body EGASIT are incorporated into the ESI. While the ESI operated in the consular district of Rotterdam ( the central-southern part of Holland), EGASIT operated in the consular district of Amsterdam (northern and eastern areas of Holland). The unification by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the two previous Consulates into the single General Consulate in Amsterdam, consequently also led to the unification of the two aforementioned bodies into a single body, the ESI in fact.

ESI thus found itself managing beyond 60 corsi, thanks to 6 tenured ministerial teachers still present and 13 teachers directly employed by the institution, passing by approximately 2000 hours of teaching beyond 7000!

In recent years the role of the numerous Italian clubs operating in the Netherlands has been of fundamental importance, as poles of attraction for young second generation Italian-Dutch people and their children (third generation). The active collaboration between ESI and Circoli, with classes often located within the clubs themselves, explains the high number of courses organised, in particular in the Limburg region which had been the main destination of the first Italian emigration. Many courses were also organized in small locations outside the main metropolises.

In recent years then, families of young Italian officials and professionals are also starting to request appropriate courses for their children, at the turn of the year 80 and the beginning of the years 90, they arrived massively in the Netherlands attracted by the various International Organizations located there and in full development, particularly in the Leiden-Den Haag coastal area.

The widespread diffusion of the courses throughout the territory obliged them (the) teachers who are constantly on the move, normally by train, from the locations of the children's courses, normally carried out in the afternoon after normal school hours, to those of adult courses necessarily carried out in (afternoon) evening. We therefore believe it is our duty to pay homage to these(i) teachers, especially those(i) ministries that, being subjected(i) to Italian regulation, they found themselves obliged(i) to carry out 22 weekly teaching hours, which is only possible with the daily accumulation of afternoon and evening courses. The development of ESI in recent years would not have been possible without their selflessness and sense of duty!

Summary graphs 2002-2005