Students from the Istituto Tecnico Industriale ‘Giambattista Bosco Lucarelli’ in Benevento spent three days in Brussels discovering the European institutions. The initiative took place within the framework of the partnership that the Campania Region has with the project “A School of Open Cohesion” in which the students participated by monitoring one of the projects funded by the European cohesion policy.
The students, gathered in a working team, followed the renovation of a building to be used for social and welfare activities in Pacevecchia in Benevento, following its development and verifying the opportunities and difficulties that lie behind a public investment. Their monitoring work was awarded the first regional and national spot of the ASOC competition, in the 2024/2025 school year.
The Campania Region has therefore decided to reward them by bringing them physically to Brussels, on the occasion of the European Week of Regions and Cities, to give them a better understanding of the processes and institutions that give rise to the resources used in the territories through the work of bodies such as the regional one.
The Campania Region is a partner of ASOC (A School of OpenCoesione) innovative path of interdisciplinary teaching addressed to first and second grade secondary schools, which promotes civic monitoring activities public funding including through the use of open data and the use of information and communication technologies.
The project aims to promote a active citizenship, with the aim of developing students useful communication and digital skills to monitor the interventions in place, starting from the analysis of data and information on the interventions financed by the cohesion policies in their own territory (available on the portal opencoesione.gov.it), and then carry out inspections and interviews that will compose a final creative work.
ASOC is realized thanks to numerous collaborations and institutional partnerships, among them, beyond the Campania Region, include the Representation in Italy of the European Commission, the Ministry of Education and Merit, the Senate of the Republic, Istat, the Department for Cohesion and Southern Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
In Campania, students, in addition to benefiting from the support of the Region, will be able to refer to a territorial support network composed of Europe Direct Information Centres (ED), by European Documentation Centres (CDE), by Organizations and Associations and by Istat territorial referents.
To participate in the new edition of the project A Scuola di OpenCoesione, the teachers You must submit your application no later than 24.00 on 10 November 2025.
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