“Scuola Viva in Quartiere”: eight million for interventions in risk areas
The “Scuola Viva in Quartiere” programme is designed to enhance and strengthen the networks between schools, the local area and businesses in areas at risk in order to combat school drop-outs, broaden the range of educational opportunities, experiment with innovative models and provide guidance and support for disadvantaged students. The public notice, aimed at supporting school activities in areas of strong cultural, social and economic decline characterised by a worrying incidence of crime, makes available a total of EUR 7,900,000.00 to school structures. School networks, whether established or to be established, consisting of at least eight schools, may participate in the call for proposals by submitting a specific application proposal covering three areas of intervention:
– network governance and multidisciplinary workshops
– school building interventions and use of school spaces;
– support measures for experiential and educational paths for young people.
Each proposal can be financed up to a maximum of 1,125,000.00 euros (200,000.00 euros for the first area of intervention; 570,000.00 for the second; 355,000.00 for the third). Seven projects are to be implemented in as many areas suffering from severe degradation and cultural and social marginalisation, such as Scampia, Ponticelli, Poggioreale-Piazza Nazionale, Forcella, Soccavo Pianura, Afragola Salicelle and Caivano Parco Verde, Marano Giugliano. The programme, which will be implemented between October 2019 and December 2020, aims to support networks of schools, ensuring adequate levels of governance and an intervention plan focused on educational and didactic workshops of a multidisciplinary nature, to carry out targeted interventions for school buildings and video surveillance for the adaptation and improvement of the functionalisation and use of school environments and their relevance, to activate support measures in educational and experiential paths between schools in the area and local production units to encourage the inclusion in the world of work of pupils at risk of marginalisation and school drop-out.
This is a further important step,” says Lucia Fortini, Campania Region’s Councillor for Education, “in the construction of a school system that is a central pivot in the life of the community, that keeps our young people, especially those who live in difficult circumstances in the area, away from the pitfalls of organised crime, that helps them to grow, to be culturally and humanly formed, and to equip themselves with the most appropriate tools to compete and succeed in the world of work”.
Extension of deadline to 28/10/19 – DD n. 1009 – DG 11 del 09/10/19
