The school-work alternance policy after the “good school”. Students living and promoting local heritage in a Unesco Site.

This paper will discuss a set of preliminary data collected during a number of actions held of the school work alternance during February and April 2019 in Mantua. Thanks to the collaboration of a groups of 15 students belonging to Pitentino Institute involved in the project, we will try to reflect on the relationship between cultural heritage and local values, traditions and stories of the community but in particular on how our school-work alternance activities may have promoted personal and collective identity building in young citizens of a Unesco site. The proposed work is comprised in a larger Italian research project named MOBARTECH funded by the European Union, the Lombardy Region and the Government, FSR. The main aim of MOBARTECH is to create actions of industrial research, experimental development and innovation of processes and organizations. However, it also aims to study and produce scientific results of research while encouraging the creation of new creative processes to enhance cultural heritage. For this reason, the project has involved the study and experimentation on the Unesco site of Mantua and Sabbioneta to develop local cultural heritage through educational and participatory practices that will involve local communities and in particular local schools.