Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

First edition of the
“Foundation’s
Academies”, held on
the San Servolo
Island (Venice),
January 7-11, 2004
Foundation with the Körber Stiftung. The first edition of the competition, on “migratory flows in Italy
in the ‘80s and ‘90s” was won by a fourth year class of the Liceo classico “Vittorio Emanuele II” in
Naples.
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Community foundation of Educational Services
Consistent with its aim of operating in the territory, the Foundation strengthened its relation with the
City of Turin with two programmes: “Provaci ancora Sam” (Try it again Sam) for preventing and
managing the problem of school drop outs, which has both set the national benchmark for similar
initiatives, and led in autumn to a new Memorandum of Understanding among the Ministry of
University and Research - Turin Municipality -, the Ufficio Pio of the Compagnia di San Paolo, the
Foundation for Schools and “Sul Tappeto Volante” (“On the flying carpet”). It aims both at achieving
multiethnic school and social integration in the Turin district of San Salvario, preventing Italian
students from moving away from district schools. Further cooperation was established with the Turin
Municipality in the context of Servizio Civile Volontario italiano in Europa (Italian civil voluntary
service in Europe). Several civil volunteers served in the programmes against school drop outs
launched in the “educating cities” of Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Getafe (Gerona). The joint
intervention with the Turin municipality on school-work alternance was strengthened and
supported, at the end of the year, by joint initiatives in the field of cooperative learning, which will
soon become the subject of a specific convention. With Piedmont Regional Authorities and the
Direzione Scolastica regionale del MIUR (Ministry of Education University and Research regional
office) the Foundation set up the “Scuole di Montagna”, programme, whose first step was the
publication of a book on schools in the mountains of Piedmont, and the launch of the Concorso
nazionale Centomontagne (Centomontagne national competition) open to schools . The initiative
will reach its peak in 2006, during Olympic Winter Games and Paralympics, through meetings and
exchange of experience among the winners of the Centomontagne competition and other schools
in the region. Furthermore, the foundation strengthened its relation with Genoa, first ad foremost
thanks to the “Janua-Genova porta dei mari” initiative, involving over 60 elementary, lower
secondary and secondary schools (over two thirds of the total number of schools on the local
territory) and about 9000 students, with teaching projects on various cultural places of interest or
museums telling the story of the city in its different stages. The initiative’s closing events were over
50, embracing exhibitions, theatre and film performances, art installations, many of which had great
success and importance in the city. Secondly, participating in the Congresso Internazionale delle