Ashoka Italia places our College among a list of the 11 most innovative schools in Italy
The Ashoka Italia report, “Innovation Roads – Tracing the Transformation of Education in Italy,” is set in the context of the momentous transformation of the current Italian educational landscape in the wake of the health emergency of 2020-21. The report aims to map out the innovative changes taking place in our country’s education system.
The report focuses on the foundational aspects of the innovation process and provides a rich overview of innovative practices, passionate individuals, projects, and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches. The goal is to encourage the systematic integration of these initiatives and to highlight the richness inherent in the diversity of approaches and solutions currently in place. All of this is geared towards envisioning a future where education is not merely a vehicle for knowledge transmission but a creative laboratory fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and resilience, and therefore capable of addressing the immense challenges of the 21st century.
Within the Ashoka report, presented on December 14 in the Italian Parliament, 11 schools capable of generating innovation have been identified throughout the national territory — from Duino to Lecce, and from Busto Arsizio to Florence. Among them, two are located in the region Friuli Venezia Giulia: the Istituto Arturo Malignani in Udine and our College.
Ashoka’s map of innovative schools represents a first step towards building a multidisciplinary alliance of educational sector leaders capable of initiating relevant actions with a systemic impact. In this way, Ashoka and the 15 partners involved in the making of the report (including Indire, the scientific arm of the Italian Ministry of Education), have laid out the groundwork for a collaborative dialogue aimed at initiating co-design processes to drive innovation throughout the Italian educational system. These processes shall encourage the players involved to undertake advocacy actions and promote a systemic and participatory transformation process in education in Italy.
