(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 23 - After the break in the pandemic, United Network Europe, a European organization that develops and promotes innovative higher education courses for young people, is back.
In fact, from 2 to 4 May, Imun Middle School 2022 will take place in Rome, an initiative that will involve over a thousand students from secondary schools in Lazio and all over Italy, who for three days will simulate the sessions of the United Nations General Assembly .
The prestigious "Atlante - Italian Teacher Award" is also back, established in 2018 by United Network Eu in collaboration with "Repubblica scuola" and in partnership with the Varkey Foundation, with the aim of raising awareness, on a large digital platform open to public, the often overlooked work of many teachers, creative and original initiatives as training tools, thus facilitating the dissemination of best practices in schools.
Hundreds of teachers from Italian schools participated in the selection again this year with their training projects: six finalists were chosen last night by an independent jury made up of journalists, writers and exponents from the world of culture and school, chaired by Stefano Marroni, Head of the Rai Press Office.
The name of the winner who will win a one-week trip to New York will be announced on May 4, on the occasion of the final day of the work of Imun Middle school, the initiative that has involved thousands and thousands of students over the years.
Here are the names of the finalists of this edition: Primary school: - Fabio Manni, teacher of all disciplines at the Istituto Comprensivo Alighieri Diaz in Lecce, with the double inclusion project in the hospital school: teaching activities in the hospital wards and lessons of art and music in the schools of origin of sick pupils.
- Isabella Bosio, Italian teacher at the primary school BB School of Scanzorosciate (Bergamo).
She has several projects: on understanding history by elaborating the timeline and on poetry as a tool for listening and sharing.
Lower secondary school: - Daniele Mancini, Professor of Technology at the Rosmini comprehensive institute in Rome.
He involved the children in basic design lessons with 48 playful and recreational experiences;
during the pandemic he built a web radio with them in the school.
- Riccardo Bonomi, professor of Mathematics and Sciences at the Comprehensive Institute of Siziano (Pavia).
He adopted chemistry teaching in an original way using Lego bricks to recognize elements and their structures.
Second grade secondary school: - Giovanna Ripolo, professor of History and Philosophy at the Liceo Classico Pitagora in Crotone.
She has created "booktrailers" with the students to help in reading and stimulate her, tools also applied to paper books in the school library.
- Simona Saporito, professor of Economics and Law at ITES Galiani in Naples.
You have involved students in active citizenship: from painting murals to meetings with social workers and learning sign language.
Instead, it will be up to the students - "diplomats", who participate in the seventh edition of Imun Middle School to try to discuss, strictly in English, the topical issues on which the great of the Earth are questioned.
Divided into commissions, representing all member countries of the United Nations, they will discuss some of the topics on the UN world agenda ranging from the fight against maritime piracy, to the recovery of biodiversity and social equality, from control over abuses of power of the police forces towards those in the world who demonstrate peacefully, up to the cases of the islands that risk disappearing due to climate change and the effects of atomic radiation.
At the end of the three days of study and discussion,
the resolutions adopted by the various commissions will be voted on during a large plenary session on May 4th at the Brancaccio Theater.
The student who will be considered the best delegate will be offered participation in next year's Imun edition.
United Network UN has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Education since 2016, to encourage the development of Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (PCTO) in Italian schools.
The IMUN project was born in 2011 and was conceived by United Network, an NGO officially associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communication (DGC);
UN is a founding member of the United Nations Global Compact - Italy.
Since 2020 it is an NGO with an advisory status at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
In the training courses, specially designed teaching methods are adopted in order to develop not so much knowledge as transversal skills, the most requested soft skills in the world of work.
Among these, the main ones are: team working;
leadership;
planning;
public speaking;
adaptability;
self-confidence;
communication;
problem solving, independence.
The Varkey Foundation was created to spread education to the weakest sections of the population, through teachers.
Since 2014 he has organized the Global Teacher Prize.
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