The University of Sannio promotes the MIT Global Teaching Labs (GTLs). These are global teaching laboratories, designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to promote the teaching of cutting-edge themes, in an itinerant way.
Already last January, Unisannio had involved the Benevento institutes in a climate change project. On that occasion, researchers, graduate students and students of Unisannio, together with Boston MIT students, had held specific laboratories at some Benevento schools.
With GTLs, MIT students are hosted by schools admitted to be part of the international network and develop courses on selected topics lasting one month. For now, Sannio schools that have joined the Global Teaching Labs network are the "Pietro Giannone" High School and the "Virgilio" Institute.
The project spread for fifteen years also in Italy, thanks to Serenella Sferza, co-director of the MIT MISTI Program for Italy and to prof. Giuseppe Strada then dean of the Pacioli di Crema Institute, was presented in Benevento by Silvia Ullo, researcher and professor of Unisannio, who has been coordinating the "Connecting Unisannio and MIT" project since 2017, thanks to which in January 2019 thirty students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have chosen the University of Sannio to carry out research projects.
The head teacher of the "Giannone" Luigi Mottola considered the project organic to the current and innovative configuration of the high school, which includes an "Erasmo" address that strengthens the hours of English and another "Euclid" which strengthens the hours of mathematics. Paola De Gais, a mathematics teacher and coordinator of the mathematics Olympics was identified as a contact person. Three modules of twenty hours of mathematics, physics and sciences will be held for the three-year term "Euclid" and five modules of twelve hours of science in CLIL mode for all terminal classes.
The other school admitted within the GTLs network is the "Virgilio" Institute, where the project was immediately welcomed by the manager Michele Ruscello. Here is Maria Carmela Casazza, professor at the branch in San Giorgio del Sannio of the Scientific High School. Among other things, the "Virgilio" Institute has an ongoing foreign exchange program, which has enabled students from the fourth year of the Scientific and Classical High School to work for a year at a Boston Higher Institute.
The Italian coordinators of the network coordination at the Pacioli Institute in Crema, professors Nayla Renzi and Carlo Dossena have welcomed the two new Sanniti schools within the Global Teaching Labs Network, considering that so far the majority of the institutions admitted found in regions of northern Italy.
