Bari: 57 projects financed following the call from the department of educational and youth policies for socio-cultural activities in Bari schools

Bari: 57 projects financed following the call from the department for educational and youth policies for socio-cultural activities in Bari schools.

The councilor for educational and youth policies Paola Romano announces that it was published on the institutional website of the Municipality of Bari, to this link , the ranking relating to the notice addressed to state nursery, primary and secondary schools and to city comprehensive schools for the financing of socio-cultural projects conceived and promoted by the schools themselves.

Through this initiative, financed with over 240 thousand euros, the municipal administration intends to support project activities capable of producing an effective cultural, educational and training impact on pupils and their families, aiming to achieve public objectives.

As a result of the procedure, a total of 57 proposals were eligible for funding, ranging from reading, theatrical and artistic, musical and environmental education to the introduction of new technologies and teaching methodologies, from the promotion of legality to the full inclusion of pupils with disabilities , from the fight against school dropout to interculture, up to the strengthening of scientific subjects.

“We are satisfied to have managed to finance all the projects presented by the city's schools, the result of the commitment put in place by the teachers in collaboration with external professionals and third sector entities, to offer further support to the growth and awareness of students, from the youngest to the oldest – comments the councilor for educational and youth policies Paola Romano -. Many of the funded projects focus on reading education, and will make it possible to enhance the libraries inaugurated in recent months, and on the various artistic expressions, such as music, at the center of a now consolidated path of the 27th Palese circle, or even painting , with the art gallery of the children of Amedeo d'Aosta, while in many other cases these are now "historic" projects. I think of Skenè, the theater festival promoted by the Salvemini high school, or of Radio Panetti, which this year will be interested in gender equality by inviting into the studio women who carry out their battles in the contexts of daily life or even foreign women who live in our city, like the Afghan women who witnessed a history of denied rights in their homeland. The themes of gender equality and affective education against all forms of violence recur, testifying to a new and hopefully increasingly convinced attention to one of the most dramatic phenomena of our time, for which difference, this time positively, the new generations will be able to do it."

Below is a summary of some of the funded projects:

· Marco Polo Linguistic High School and Technical-Economic Institute: “On reading”

The project proposal is part of the planning of interventions to support reading, consisting of the Innovative School Libraries project. This is an activity that has been consolidated for over a decade: it was born as a participatory action to promote reading and creative rewriting with the aim of consolidating the practice of reading among young people and in the area through the organization of meetings with authors of narratives different, in different languages ​​of expression. In this new edition we intend to integrate the objectives of reading with those of civic education and orientation on two themes in particular: the recognition of the role of women in the founding phase of democracy in Italy and the climate emergency, with the consequent need to rethink the city. As part of the project activities, meetings will be held with authors during which they will find space for readings, presentation videos (booktrailers) and in-depth analysis with digital material (podcasts), musical interludes and rewritings of the text. The meetings will be preceded by a laboratory phase to prepare the event. A part of the budget will be allocated to the purchase of new books which will enrich the school library's assets.

· ITT Panetti – Pitagora: “Radio Panetti for women”

Now in its seventeenth year of activity, Radio Panetti this year offers a radio experience aimed at exploring the role of women who have innovated the Italian and international cultural and scientific panorama, from medicine to science, from philosophy to literature, from technology to ethics. During the project, the students of Radio Panetti will meet the protagonists of our city to tell their story of commitment and, at times, courage to affirm their right to exist and build a better citizenship. The commitment of the boys and girls will be aimed at combating all forms of gender discrimination and implementing a profound reflection on gender reciprocity.

Achieving gender equality is a challenge that faces us every day: a challenge for all girls and women, who must learn to make their voices heard and assert their point of view; and for all young people, who are called to rethink the very concept of gender identity, in line with objective 5 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

The project consists in the conception, co-planning and creation of web TV/radio formats open to the contribution of authoritative voices of our territory: we will proceed with an editorial activity that investigates the different sensitivities of students on the identified topic, therefore with the research and reconstruction of the experience of authoritative female figures and the stereotypes that have marked their experience, finally with the identification of representative figures of the city and with the construction of the format to give life to a coherent radio and television narrative.

· IP Santarella – De Lilla: “United voices: affective education against gender violence”

The initiative puts students at the center in promoting affective education as a fundamental tool for preventing gender violence. The approach is based on the active participation of students in the creation of educational material and in the organization of events aimed at raising awareness of the topic in the school community and students' families.

The students, who will follow a path on affective education, will be asked to create events and educational campaigns and to produce videos, brochures and personalized presentations.

The aim of the project is to promote student empowerment by developing leadership and active involvement in the planning and implementation of activities through close collaboration between students, teachers and parents, in order to create an inclusive learning environment that respects differences.

· Amedeo d'Aosta middle school: “The children's art gallery”

Following the partial recovery of the heritage of artistic productions created within the painting laboratory, active until March 2020, the school's children's art gallery was inaugurated last year. The laboratories activated subsequently and the involvement of the entire institute have in fact allowed an opening to the school territory.

The project, therefore, will continue with the recovery of the tables from the "Io come Frida" exhibition created in the 2017-18 school year and with the enrichment of the art gallery's heritage through the work carried out during a workshop conducted by an artist expert in the subject.

The project aims to promote students' creativity and artistic expression, develop and strengthen personal re-elaboration skills, teach teamwork and use specific techniques of artistic communication.

· 27th Bari – Palese educational club: “Growing in music”

The proposal intends to continue and strengthen the musical education path started in recent years in primary school, with the aim of offering ever greater opportunities for young participants to approach the expressive-musical dimension, providing them with the basis for tackling the musical path in the classroom. later or in lower secondary school.

The activities will be carried out in collaboration with two associations that, in the Palermo area, actively operate in the sector, "Nino Rota" and "Leonard Bernstein", which will make expert figures available to the school who support the primary school music teacher on a weekly basis.

The aim of the project is to further strengthen the ability to listen (of oneself, of others and of musical sound events), improving attention, concentration, memory, personal commitment, sense of responsibility, strengthening the pleasure of making music together.