Next generation labs - Laboratories for the digital professions of the future

School 4.0: innovative schools, wiring, new classrooms and workshops (Mission 4, Component 1, Investment 3.2)

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides for updating school facilities into adaptable, flexible and digital learning environments, with technologically advanced workshops and a work-based learning process.

This measure accelerates the digital transition of the Italian school system with four initiatives:

- Transformation of around 100 000 traditional classes into connected learning environments, with the introduction of related educational devices

- Creation of workshops for digital professions in the second cycle

- Digitalization of school administrations - Interior wiring cabling of approximately 40 000 school buildings and related devices.

The investment is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 2.1 billion.

The project envisaging the creation of technological laboratories is part of this investment.Technological laboratories, as interconnected physical spaces that underlie innovative teaching methodologies aimed at creating a substrate, a background, for the construction of knowledge (scaffolding), favor learning based on ""Work Based Learning"" (W.B.L.)  and practical activities, stimulating creativity, cooperation, problem-solving and inclusion.

The workshops of this project offer students new approaches and new methodologies, to facilitate the sharing of innovative, interactive and collaborative learning experiences and places, in order to stimulate active participation in scientific knowledge and technical skills, focusing on digital laboratory activities,  oriented to the training of flexible professionals, equipped with  ""hard skills"" and ""soft skills"" expendable on the labour market.

Therefore, the aim of the project is the realization of three laboratories where students and students can develop specific digital skills in different advanced technological fields, pertaining to the different fields of study provided for by the Institute’s Training Offer Plan, also through authentic activities and effective simulation of places, tools and processes related to new professions.

The intervention is divided into three subsections: the digital laboratory for health and the environment , the Maintenance Laboratory for Industry 4.0 and the laboratory for the enhancement of the culture of the territory, consistent with the addresses and exit profiles of the Institute.

These laboratories will be integrated in the process of digitizing classes and used for curricular, extracurricular and P.C.T.O.