I.S.S  “Enrico Fermi” is situated in Lecce, a beautiful town in the

south of Italy. Our school represents a local cultural landmark in

the field of technology with its branches: Mechanics- Mechatronics-

Energy, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and

Telecommunication, Transports and Logistics, Lyceum of Applied

Sciences.  It operates in a complex and varied socio-economic

and cultural context  with a relevant rate of unemployment,

especially youth unemployment. The majority of students are

commuters, coming from the rural areas of Salento, while the rest are

town residents. 
The students learning here springs from various family backgrounds. Beside the normal, well-organized, emotionally and financially solid families, there are many students who confront with numerous hardships. Some of them come from disorganized families or mono-parental families, some are migrants, coming from no-European countries and a small number of students live on the verge of poverty. Moreover, there are students with special needs whom so far we have successfully integrated in ordinary classes.

 

        In a so varied school population our school pays great attention to motivate all the students in order to give them equal opportunities and to encourage their human and cultural growth. Our school widens its education programs by connecting the learning process with strategies and activities that  are intended to remove youth uneasiness, to re-motivate the study, to reinforce the students’ knowledge, competences and abilities.  In the last few years our school works  on projects preventing early school leavings , fighting dropping out of school  and developing transversal skills and educational strategies to tackle the lack of school attendance.
Our school approach  is also to appreciate the best students and to limit the educational failure. 
Our previous experiences in Comenius projects and in the Erasmusplus KA2 made us aware of the benefits that the European cooperation activities can  bring  to school, teachers, parents, local community and especially  to students. Our aims are: to develop the spirit of European membership, to promote international cooperation between educational institution, to help the students from socially disadvantaged area to know cultures of European countries, to practice and improve their linguistic and communicative competence in English, to practice and improve their information technologies competences, to open up new long term prospects.