On 24th of July, APRE, national coordinator and partner of the SLEs project officially kicked off the mature phase of the pilot implementation in Italy.
With a capacity building webinar participated by 28 participants, the pilot initiators had the opportunity to understand and delve into the objectives of the SLEs project, its methodology, and listen to prior good inspirational practices. APRE, as facilitator and coordinator in the country, also provided practical implementation guidelines to be followed including the timings and templates to be filled in. The session ended with follow-up questions by the participants – have a look at the presentation below!
More than 10 new pilot initiatives, selected through an open call, will be implemented in Italy from September 2024 to May 2025 following the STE(A)M, living labs and open schooling approach, at the core of the SLEs project. The Italian new pilots will encompass different topics, will be implemented in different Italian cities and will be promoted by different categories of stakeholders, namely:
- Food waste, by national research centers CREA and INAIL, private foundation Fondazione Barilla, in Rome and by EUFIC.
- Water resources, by IIS Santorre di Santarosa secondary school, Turin
- Ocean and Sea sustainability, by national research center ISPRA and I.C Guicciardini school, Rome
- Nature and arts, by national research center ISPRA, in Rome
- Archeology and raw materials, by national research center CNR, in Rome
- Robotics and 3D, by ITS Prime Foundation, in Florence
- Product life cycle and theatre, by national research center CNR, in Milan
- Green transition and gender, by Essenia UETP national training center, in Salerno
- Outdoor learning and environmental education, by I.C Parco della Vittoria school, Rome
- Gravitational waves, by national research institute, INFN, in Cagliari
- Physics and arts, by Sapienza University, in Rome
In the next months, pilot initiators will be working on Phase 1 – ideation and initiation of the activity (by the end of September 2024) and Phase 2 – establishment of the SLEs partnership (by the end of October 2024).
APRE will continuously support the implementation of the projects in the country, with the intention, by June 2025, to develop and publish a comprehensive handbook collecting the experiences, good practices and learning products of these new pilot SLEs.
