The project aims at innovation and European comparison to break out of isolation and offer pupils equal educational opportunities. 4 are the areas identified to increase staff competences and promote internationalisation: 1.IMPROVING EUROPEAN OPENNESS AND COMPARISON: contact with different and more innovative educational systems and realities of life,to enable the creation of a European mindset 2.IMPROVING ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS: to give staff more effective communication skills in order to support all European projects and to acquire autonomy and communicative confidence 3.ACQUISITION AND STRENGTHENING OF METHODOLOGICAL SKILLS SPECIFIC TO THE TEACHING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: to extend reinforcement actions to ALL the students in the different school buildings and increase CLIL 4.ACQUISITION AND STRENGTHENING OF GENERAL INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES: to enhance methodological renewal, aiming at a competencies-oriented school, which adopts active, differentiated and inclusive teaching, also useful for effectively managing classes and multi-classes, creating inclusive learning environments, approaching the student in a holistic way, balancing digital integration, working on socio-emotional aspects, stimulating well-being
The Istituto Omnicomprensivo di Bobbio is a small and isolated rural school composed of 14 buildings on 70 km of road and a total of 480 pupils, aged 3 to 18. The school now includes 4 levels of education, although at the time of the submission the secondary school was not yet part of the then Istituto Omnicomprensivo. The school began a strong Europeanisation process in 2013, which, together with ministerial actions such as the PNSD, has led it to achieve generally good results in the methodological and digital fields, even though the innovative vision developed in Erasmus is not systemic and widespread among all teachers. Nevertheless, fragmentation and turnover on the one hand, and mature teachers on the other, needed a further push towards innovation that would lead to a more cohesive system.It was therefore decided to focus on methods and English language, bot for general and english teachers, to strengthen and give continuity to the action.