The challenges of the school were on various fronts: internationalization, inclusion, sustainability, enhancement of the local area & cultural heritage. An important objective was to stimulate the ability to improve the individual in his daily life, in his town and local environment. The comparison with schools and territories that pursue the same objectives improved the perception of the importance of preserving nature and the vision of solutions for both personal and collective improvement of the environment in its whole.The project enhanced the sensibilised the pipils to save the green areas of the territory, which unfortunately are annually targeted by arsonists who burn up many hectares of forest in the reserve. The students started to put into practice the daily eco-gestures at school and in the family as the first step to lead to the promotion and establishment of eco-sustainable values to contribute to the protection of the planet. The school contributed to enrich school and urban environments with trees and plants also with the collaboration of the Municipal administration, the Regional Forest Guard Corps, involving families and the population to preserve our natural beauties.
ICS Mons. Gagliano is a comprehensive school located in Altavilla Milicia, a town of 8,000 inhabitants 20 km from Palermo. Since 2015, the school has begun an internationalization process, it has obtained contributions for participation in three Erasmus+ projects as a partner school and it has approached European realities even very distant from its own, starting an edifying and positive comparison with them.. The school also offers students PON projects on the most varied topics to combat educational poverty or early school leaving: the study of oreign languages, of the environment and eco-sustainability, enhancement of the local cultural heritage. Other projects included in the PTOF concern the numerous inclusion activities and projects and participation in eTwinning projects. Main feature of the school is the project "A student a tree" conducted with the help of the Regional Forestry Corps, active since many years, which has always brought pupils closer to the natural environment in the area where they live, enhancing it. The target pupils of the project were those of the lower secondary school, 10/13 years old.