A teaching approach that integrates civic education with pathways for transversal skills and orientation, a new methodology, for reflection on the development of active and responsible citizenship skills. 

It is the training proposal, aimed at teachers of secondary schools of first and second grade, as well as representatives of associations and entities operating in the educational field, promoted by the Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi in collaboration with the Municipality of Albaredo per San Marco and Scuole Outdoor in Rete. 

The training course, completely free of charge, which will take place in Albaredo from October 6 to 8, arises within the project "La scuola per le Orobie", focused on an innovative model of active and participative education, aimed at promoting a culture of protection of historical, environmental, and landscape heritage.

«The Park's participation in the Outdoor Schools project - emphasizes president Marco Ioli - is giving us great satisfaction. It is a moment when young people learn to take care of the territory not through abstract notions but through work. The training proposal is decidedly innovative: the teaching staff needs to know and understand this way of experiencing the territory, and through this course they are provided with the tools for a teaching approach that is more aligned with the goals that an entity like ours proposes in order to engage the new generations. We thank the Municipality of Albaredo and the coordination for the collaboration».

 «Since 2021 we have been firmly supporting the project - highlights the vice mayor of Albaredo Antonella Furlini - because we believe that training young people is a fundamental starting point for shaping the society of the future: an active, industrious, and respectful society of the territory and the communities that inhabit it. Together with the Ecomuseum we provide structures and expertise, which, integrated with the experience and preparation of Outdoor in Rete and the Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi, allow the development of articulated and coherent training projects with pathways for transversal skills and orientation. These pathways enhance not only tradition but also innovation and the vision of the future: just think of the activities carried out in the territory in recent years by the young people in an autonomous but well-protected way, the Metaborgo project, visits to municipal offices, the editorial work done in Ecomuseum, or field interviews. A special thanks - concludes vice mayor Furlini - goes to the Parco delle Orobie for their constant support of the project, as well as to local associations, Civil Protection, Folk Group, Alpini, APS Albaredo Promotion, which help to shape, give substance, and meaning to the operational projects».

The course aims to offer teachers tools, methodologies, and concrete practices for teaching that combines civic education, orientation, cooperative work, and experiential learning in a Service Learning perspective. Pier Paolo Traversari is the coordinator of the Scuole Outdoor in Rete network: «For several years, the Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi, Scuole outdoor in Rete, and the Municipality of Albaredo per San Marco have been collaborating to activate workshops for pathways for transversal skills and orientation, focusing on caring for a territory, such as the Bitto valley of Albaredo, through the protagonism of students who often use educational trips for such activities. This new frontier of making oneself available is called service learning, meaning a service to the territory in which the skills of one’s study direction and manual work are offered to enhance or protect it, using a new winning educational strategy defined with ISLE, Immersive Service Learning Experience, in order to promote those basic skills necessary for developing responsible citizenship among the new generations».

For more detailed information on the program and for registrations, you can contact the Ecomuseum of Albaredo per San Marco:info@ecomuseoalbaredo.it. segreteria@parcorobievalt.com