One of our real needs was to have exchange projects that allow an increasingly larger number of students, including those in disadvantaged situations, to participate in mobility experiences abroad. Another need was to carry out qualifying exchanges connected to study and training curricula, focussing on characterizing subjects and significant themes, which could place the students in a context of observation of the new world of work. There was also a strongly felt need to pay particular attention to the study of the territory, meant in a broad and overall sense, from the environmental, naturalistic, landscape, hydro-orographic aspect to the cultural, human and economic-social one. Our experience of educational development, as a school in itself, and as project partners, has always favoured this connection between the curricular study and the context of practical application of what was learned. We wanted to have further possibilities to continue to improve and find other occasions to implement experiences and acquired skills, and furthermore, to be able to be the disseminators and contribute to the dissemination of good practices.
The LSS is located in the extreme South of Italy, in a disadvantaged area from a socio-economic and cultural point of view, where the school represents one of the few realities on which young people can count for their academic success. The school offers is three courses: Traditional (interrelationship between the classical-humanistic and scientific areas); Applied Sciences (laboratory teaching applied to mathematical, physical and natural sciences); Sports (sports subjects, law and economy and their contribution to other dimensions of knowledge). The school combines wide-ranging cultural initiatives with specific direction skills, with positive effects on the disadvantaged area where the school is placed (projects on Arts, Music, Theatre, Astronomy, STEM, Cambridge and Trinity certification, second language, PCTO in Italy and abroad, training programs, cultural exchanges, Erasmus+, scientific, humanistic and sporting competitions, meetings and debates with famous people belonging to different cultural fields.