Raffaello Giovagnoli is a "Comprehensive" Institute, that is an institute including six minor schools ,

nursery, primary and secondary, with about 1400 students aged from 3 to 14. There are 80 students

with severe disabilities and with special needs, the staff consists of about 140 teachers and 27 nonteaching

units. It is located in Monterotondo town, near Rome, with a medium and heterogeneous

social-economic-cultural background. The goals of our school are in line with Europe 2020: a strategy

for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in a lifelong learning perspective. Our first goal is to

promote the acquisition of transversal key competences such as digital competence, learning to

learn, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and expression. Our second aim is

to achieve a synergistic relationship among education, research and innovation. We consider our

school a place of interaction, where experiences meet the evolutionary stages of each individual. The

learning process is intentional and constructive, its purpose is to share knowledge among pairs and

to adjust the learning process choosing the best practice. We promote a professional community in

which each one, with different specialization and different responsibility, takes care of the process of

education and carries on a whole school project. One of the project activities carried out by our

institution is "MY SCHOOL FOR PEACE" . It had the Unesco recognition for its aims, such as:

transfering to the students the value of DIALOGUE; contributing to the development of education for

active citizenship. Giovagnoli school has already experienced the Comenius and Erasmus calls since

2007 and, since then, it has continued to design activities in partnership with local and private

agencies, professional organizations and different schools to improve and personalize student

learning course. The whole staff usually approaches a lifelong learning method by acquiring tools and

strategies, adapting, refocusing and changing their practices, content and mode of operation

according to the actual social ,cultural, and educational students' needs. Numerous internal training

courses have been activated recently for the acquisition of knowledge and skills of English (English

for all and Clil), digital and informatic (Digital Coffee), innovative use of spaces (Design classroom

layout), scietific skills (STEM) to improve and reinforce teachers and project team skills. The four

project team persons are able to afford every tasks and duties, they have been experienced in

European partnerships, they have a good knowledge of English, organizing actions and digital skills;

they are usually involved in national and local projects to promote a professional community. The

European development to which we are focusing is intriguing the whole teaching staff, for which we

record an increasing participation of colleagues who can thus become part of the team if necessary.