The objectives of the project “M.E.G.A.” were carried out through the training and engagement of the participants in order to acquire professional and personal skills aimed at achieving the following set of objectives: - identify and implement innovative teaching methodologies aimed at contrast school failure and low student participation - enhance the European dimension of the I.T.A. “E. Sereni” - interface with European students, schools and colleagues, improving listening and interacting skills - team working: sharing experiences and methodologies in order to achieve a common goal - know the strategies aimed at encouraging students to acquire skills such as: learning to work, learning to improve, learning to cooperate, entrepreneurship, autonomy and sense of responsibility - consolidate the propensity towards continuous updating, in order to satisfy the requests coming from the current school system.
The Agricultural Technical Institute “E. Sereni" is in the context of the Metropolitan City of Rome, characterized by an agricultural vocation and has invested in continuous staff training, through exchanges of best practices with European experts in the use of innovative teaching approaches. The project envisaged mobility activities of 15 days, and 2 days of travel, aimed at strengthening key areas and according to the needs indicated in the European Development Plan: - implement learning strategies for students' academic and occupational success - increase job shadowing paths abroad - strengthen European key competences: communication in English, learning to learn, social and civic competences - strengthen relations with companies, institutions and organizations at a local level - increase relations with foreign partners for the realization of European projects - limit the dropout rate and reduce the number of students with suspended judgements - strengthen staff training in a Lifelong Learning perspective - enhance the quality and use of laboratory teaching - structuring the innovative teaching curriculum in order to ensure the improvement of results.