A transnational experience of school-work alternation: the Leonardo da Vinci AGRI.TOUR.BAS project. (Agriculture Tourism Basilicata)

Abstract

The theme of integration between the school and the world of work has entered today fully in the European debate as a primary factor for economic development and social inclusion. Curricular traineeships, traineeships which form optional or compulsory part of academic and/or vocational curricula whose purpose is to improve the learning process and training with a method of ‘alternation’, has become a reality also in Italy. Experiences of work related lear-ning are carried out at both national and trans-national level. The main objective of this paper is to show some of the main findings of a transnational project of school-work, co-funded by the European Commission under the Li-felong Learning Programme, which involved 10 schools and 200 students in the Basilicata re-gion.