Work experiences provide a valuable means of integration between the education system and enterprises, formal and informal learning, and help students as orientation into the labour market. They improve both professional/vocational skills and educational competences, such as flexibility, coping with problems and communication skills.

For this reason our school, ITG "Secchi", has offered training schemes and work experiences to students in our area for long years, but the urge to educate European citizens and to train more competent, up-to-date and flexible workers has laid the basis for the setting up of this European partnership.

The partnership includes EFPE professional training centre, with connections to a network of enterprises in Reggio Emilia, the Province of Reggio Emilia, together with Moelledalsgymnasiet, a vocational secondary school in Malmö, and the building companies association in Malmö.

The training program started in June 2003 with the preparation for a group of 10 students of our school, selected on the basis of motivation and guaranteeing equal opportunities to girls and boys. They left for Malmö, Sweden, on September 8th 2003 and came back after a 3-week stay.The experience was carefully monitored and evaluated with Europass certification.

As the partners applied for reciprocity in the training programme, the Swedish group came to Reggio Emilia in November 2003.

The students of I.T.G. "Secchi" who took part in the Leonardo project, training experience in Malmö are:
Berni Laura
Bochicchio Alberto
Borghi Luca
Cavallini Simone
Cingi Marco
Conte Valentina
Lotti Benedetta
Margini Chiara
Russo Fabio
During the hosting phase also joined in:
Dagrava Alberto
Tartaglia Marco
Coordinator of the project: Ms Simona Storchi