SCHOOL PRESENTATION

Hello guys!

We are a group of students from ITC "Edmondo De Amicis" and

we are attending the second year in the course of study called "E.R.I.C.A.".

Our High School is named after the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis,

whose best-known book is the children's novel “Heart”.

In the school there are four different courses of study:

• E.R.I.C.A.: by attending this course of study the students will become flexible in foreign languages. The students will acquire a sound logical, mathematical, computer science background and can enrol at any university faculty;
  



• I.G.E.A.: this course will allow students to operate in various sectors such as industry and commerce, transportation, and the mass media;
  
  
  
• I.G.E.A. sports project: the students of this course of study will acquire legal, economic, linguistic skills and competences together with sports skills;
  
  
  
• MERCURIO: the students of this course of study will be able to fit in a business with considerable mastery by using information technology as a tool for entering successfully the world of work, either the private or the public sector. .
  

HERE ARE SOME PROJECTS DEVELOPED IN OUR SCHOOL

• EUROPA LUDENS: Europa Ludens, as the title implies, means "learning about Europe by playing a didactic game": after following meetings or conferences on current topics related to the European Union, the participating students are divided into groups and simulate the work of the European Committees proposing solutions for the various issues they analyse in a document - a resolution that is set along the lines of the documents prepared by the European Parliament committees. According to the rules of the game, students from various schools of Padua, Rovigo and Vicenza, take part in different project activities to have the chance to participate in a journey to Strasbourg: here "Europa Ludens" students will be received at the headquarters of the European Parliament during one of its work sessions and can visit the Council of Europe.

STUDENTS’ EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: The Students’ European Parliament or PES is a project that involves students from high schools in different provinces of the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions. PES aims to spread the training of European citizenship, making young people take an active role in society, by having them discuss about human rights,legality and peace among students and young people. In our school a group of students have organized a laboratory where they are carrying out research on local institutions - the municipality and the province.

CERTIFICATIONS: Different types of certifications can be achieved in our school:

> foreign language certifications for English, French, German and Spanish;

> computer competence certification or ECDL;

> business competence certification or EBCL.