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Social context. IIS Sandro Pertini is located in Alatri, a beautiful historical town in central Italy  near the Appennini mountains with about 30000 inhabitans. The area is characterized by a high unemployment rate, especially among young people (about 30%, according to http://ottomilacensus.istat.it/sottotema/060/060003/12) even if it has many potentialities for improvement  in many sectors like the touristic one.

Our students are aged 14 to 19, many of them come from a cultural and economic deprived background. Because of the recent economic crisis many of our students live in single-salary families. School is often the only subject playing a role in the cultural and social growth of these young people. The pupils often have a very narrow perception of the world beyond national borders, and their understanding of the European dimension and the culture and societies of our European partners and the importance of learning  modern foreign languages for job market  is limited.  A surprisingly large number have not travelled to  the nearby big cities nevermind to a European destination.  This is due to financial considerations together with a fear of the unknown. Moreover the early school leaving rate is quite high because of disillusionment with the educational system or  poor grades.

IIS Pertini is the leader of a network of schools in the North of the province of Frosinone for staff training and technical and vocational training for students. Our mission is based on tradition and innovation. We strongly believe in the social and cultural function of the school as an intermediary between students and the territory. We are active in offering services to the territory: our area is famous for olive oil production and our chemistry students help people who want to know the quality of their olive oil analyzing it; the same happens with water. Moreover our business students offer financial help to people who are in trouble with bills.

Inclusion in our school. In order to prevent school dropout and to increase school attendance, the school has been equipped with any kinds of technological facilities and devices, such as multimedia labs, computers, interactive whiteboards, and so on. We work for inclusion and offer a wide range of experiences to disabled students, the one with different levels of learning disabilities and also the migrant ones, who learn how to integrate in our school and society  in our inclusive workshops (theatre, orchard, manufacturing, drawing, computer, language …). Our inclusion department works very hard to give each student the same possibilities of social, cultural and personal development., to fight discrimination and social exclusion of all diversities.

Building and vocational training of students. Students are our most important focus, we want to build them during the school years and guide them to face the challenging world after school. Moreover we want to make them aware of their possibilities, foster their potentials and enhance their abilities.

The school offers different services to our students, in particular we offer training possibilities during the last three years of school and support our students for a real work placement after they finish school. We have a work placement agency active in the institute since 2014.

We constantly look for new methodologies to teach our students the key competences they will need when approaching the world of work. Besides, we also look forward a cultural and social growth of our students which we want to become active European citizens.

Motivation to join European Projects. As seen, our institute has a wide offer of technical and vocational courses, there are motivated teachers, who try to give their best using new methodologies and facing the problems of a changing disadvantaged multicultural society. Our new challenge is to open our doors to Europe. Even if it might sound odd, the school has not taken part to European projects for about ten years, consequently the benefits of those experiences have already vanished because none of our students has experienced them. Therefore we are highly motivated to get a grant and start working with our European partners on our project.

The project of opening the school doors to Europe is very complex and global and it can be seen as a whole-school approach. A cross-sectoral approach and strong cooperation with a wide range of partners and the community at large is necessary to deal with issues which schools do not (and cannot) have the relevant expertise for. The whole-school approach is beneficial to all learners, not only to those at risk of underachievement or dropout. It can improve the motivation, engagement and social inclusion of all learners.

We have already activated the following actions:

• The internationalization is a strategic priority for our school (key area 18 in our school development planning)
• We have formed an Erasmus team
• We have started working on etwinning projects and fostered the teachers registration on the etwinning platform.
• We have taken contacts with the local eurodesk point in order to explain our students which real possibilities of building and work Europe offers them
• We have started a partnership with the local eurodesk agency in order to let our students train there for about 30 hours in a school year, so that they can become a sort of eurodesk ambassadors at school.

We are confident that such a project will interest, motivate and stimulate our students, and improve their learning experience in a wide range of subjects.

My name’s Angela Pagliarella, I am 35 years old, I am Italian and I am a teacher of English as a second language in high schools. I speak Italian, English and Russian very well, and I speak a little bit French and Spanish. I am quite tall and slim. I have got short brown hair and green eyes. I am very friendly, generous and cheerful.

I love travelling, hiking and trekking up in the mountains. One of my hobbies is singing. In actual fact I am a polyphonic choir conductor (a very little one anyway) and I am a soprano. And then just to relax I like cooking, in particular I like making homemade pasta J

Hi! My name is Antonella Vona, I am 40 years old and I am a teacher of English as a second language in  our high school.

I am a friendly and lively person. I love travelling and meeting people from different cultures.

I like doing sports, especially walking and hiking. I like singing but I am very bad at it!

Hi my name is Cristina Cannone and I've been teaching English at IIS Pertini for 15 years.I'm 54 and I live in Alatri.I can speak Spanish and French too. I really love travelling, listening to music and hanging out with my family and my female friends. I adore movies, arts and my pets. I hate cooking and doing sports. I'm looking forward to meeting you in November

Hi, I'm Margherita Boianelli and I've been teaching   English at Sandro Pertini High school for 9 years.  I live in Frosinone, only 15 km far from Alatri. I'll be 51 next December. I really love my job, but in my spare time I like travelling, reading and dancing . I think dancing is great to keep fit and  be in high spirits !

My name is Lucio Ferrera, I am 55 years old, I have a degree in civil engineering and from 2015-2016 I am a teacher of " Tecnologia e Tecniche di Rappresentazione Grafiche " at I.I.S. "S. PERTINI" by ALATRI.

Hobbies: Amateur theater, kitchen, billiards, tennis and ping pong.

	Hi there! I am Anna d’Alessandris. I teach management and economics at Sandro pertini high school. My hobbies are taking pictures and travelling. I can’t wait to meet you all!
	Hello! My name is Elsa Zoli. I am an Art teacher at Sandro Pertini High school. I am 40 years old and I am not very good at languages but I love working with people from different cultures!
	Hi! My name is Stefano Sarra, I teach Sport at Sandro Pertini High School. I am 51 years old. I love dancing and football and I teach them in my free time.

Invitation Letter to the Erasmus+ KA2

Visit Erasmus+ Programme (C1)

Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Sandro Pertini  hereby, would officially like to invite the following institutions to the Erasmus+ meeting in order to take part in the first meeting of the Erasmus+ Multilateral School Partnership (KA229) Project title “Art for inclusion’s sake”:

 1. Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule, Luenen, Germany

2. Cartesius Lyceum, Onderwijsstichting Esprit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

3. Agrupamento de Escolas Abade de Baçal, Bragança, Portugal

4. BAYRAMPASA TUNA ANADOLU LISESI, Istanbul, Turkey

5. I.E.S. LA LABORAL DE LA LAGUNA, La Laguna S/C de Tenerife, Spain

The meeting is going to be held in Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Sandro Pertini,  Alatri, Italy from 17th to 23th of November 2019.  It will be a teachers and pupils’ meeting  to determine the main elements of the project and implement  the planned activities (P8-P15). The working language is English.

We look forward to meeting you in Italy.

The Headmaster

Prof.ssa Annamaria Greco