HIATUS

The increasingly pervasive digital transformation, exacerbated by the Covid-19 health emergency, has catapulted contemporary societies into a climate of continuous change, which therefore requires new forms of learning, based on the ability to solve problems, which strengthens young people’s entrepreneurship, critical thinking, creativity, skills necessary to live and work in the 21st century society. To do this, the school needs to: – transform itself into a place of thought, study, innovation, a relevant context for the generation and dissemination of practices, culture, lifestyles and languages – implement cooperation between those who produce objects and those who produce knowledge – involve employers in the definition of study plans – enhance through training with teachers / for teachers, educational programs for students that can combine practical experience with formal learning – Promote training based on the development of skills.There is therefore a need to review learning no longer as a passage of knowledge from teacher to student, but to anchor it to a productive dimension capable of entering into a relationship with today’s and future market of work. The HIATUS project acts with a view to innovation understood as a process action and implementation of the ability of schools, in particular teachers and students, to respond to new problems and situations relating to the relationship between teaching and the labor market. Since we want to work on the acquisition of design skills as a tool to link the inside-outside of the school, it is essential to substantiate this intervention by strengthening the guiding function of teachers with respect to learning the ability to learn, not only as a key competence to be transmitted to students. but as a tool for the school to enter into a relationship with the outside world, with the changes in the labor market to be coherently integrated with the vision of the future proposed in the teaching and, therefore, with teaching.

Project HIATUS will work according to 3 work packages

• Evaluation by partners in different countries and creation of a digital space
• Sharing of skills (service design thinking) and alignment between parties
• Experimentation in Technical and Professional Institutes Experimentation in schools with teachers and students in design and computational skills, service design thinking.

The expected results, transversally to the categories involved and aforementioned belonging to the school context, during and at the end of the project activities are: – Establishment of a Design Service Participated by Teachers and Students (at least one per country in one of the schools involved in the experiment – third year -); – Strengthening the function of the guidance manager, within the school context, for the maintenance and development of a school-territory-business network (at least one per country); – Construction of projects related to school- territory/market services/products, by teachers and students (at least one project per school); – Construction of networks between schools at local, national and European level that can monitor the impact of project activities in the medium term.