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Promoting institution: Il Nostro Pianeta

Financed by Compagnia di San Paolo

The project has been realized within the “Immigrati nuovi cittadini” (”Immigrants, new citizens”) - Compagnia di San Paolo ban. Agreement Protocol of the Compagnia di San Paolo - City of Turin involving immigration, integration and interculturality.

Specific service that helps the orientation of teachers and families of Turin’s secondary schools, led putting non Italian speaking students next to successfully included young immigrants, who are now capable to work for them. This project acknowledges the necessity to operate on behalf of the young, so that they can become active citizens with training success and well inserted in our social life. The collaboration of young immigrants is innovative and represents a challenge too: we want to work with them, not for them.

The project’s goal is to search for, collect and help good experiences grow, so that they’ll be available to everyone in order to optimize resources and promote growth, dialogue, exchange and release from a localistic and individualist point of view that makes each school, when faced by a social transformation, to start al lover again. New technologies allow to reach this goal: just one year of “Area Scuola” started interactions and thought Exchange between several referent teachers for the inclusion of immigrant students of Turin’s high schools.

“Orientamento e successo formativo” makes the schools’ net stronger by meeting and experiencing things together: the interpersonal relation - launched in a wider context that Area Scuola has given in its meetings, seminars and activities promoted during the school year - allowed exchanges and the creation of alliances, so that common goals could be achieved.

The project includes:

• amortizing of some emergencies, such as the upgrade to high school for an immigrant student, during the school year, by creating a temporary centralized service that can include and not exclude, that way avoiding disorientation for the families and loss of precious school weeks for the young.
• helping - with a spirit of co-operation and ait - the COSP service (Professional Scholastic Center for the Orientation of Turin) to support the new generation of immigrants, enhancing the service’s utilities, because orientation is crucial for the evolution of work in our city.