IIS Bianchi · Monza — KA120-SCH
School Education Accreditation
Opening our school to Europe: teachers and students engaging with foreign school systems to bring innovative teaching methods into the classroom, strengthen European identity and build lasting collaboration networks with partner institutions.
ScuolaSchool Accreditation — Teaching Innovation and European Citizenship
The School accreditation is the programme through which Bianchi sends teachers and students to engage directly with European school systems — to bring back new practices, strengthen European identity and build lasting relationships with partner institutions. No one comes back the same.
O1 — Methodological and Digital Innovation
The starting point is straightforward: a teacher who has seen how others teach comes back to the classroom with a different perspective.
Job Shadowing abroad Our teachers spend time in European partner schools observing active learning methodologies such as CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and Project Based Learning, and exchanging digital tools and inclusive practices with local colleagues.
Digital skills as a teaching lever The exchange with partners is not just about technology itself, but about how it is used to make lessons more engaging, collaborative and accessible to all students, including those with specific learning needs.
O2 — Initiative and Entrepreneurial Spirit
A teacher with international experience brings something no textbook can offer: the concrete knowledge of having seen things work differently elsewhere.
Fostering initiative in students The goal is not only to develop staff — it is to use that development to shape students who can propose ideas, take on responsibilities and turn competences into real actions, both inside and outside school.
Student mobilities Students take part in school exchanges with European partner institutions: joining classes abroad, working on joint projects (sometimes in blended format with preparatory phases in Italy), and engaging directly with peers from different educational systems.
O3 — Interculturality, Identity and Respect
Getting to know another culture does not mean losing sight of your own — more often, it is precisely the opposite.
Cultural identity through comparison Our students return from an experience abroad with a deeper understanding of who they are and where they come from. The encounter with peers from other countries — their values, habits and expectations — acts as a powerful mirror.
Active European citizenship SCH mobilities engage with the themes of the 2030 Agenda: sustainability, inclusion, human rights. Not as subjects to study, but as real contexts in which students find themselves operating during the project.
The Impact That Stays
Every mobility generates effects that reach beyond those who travelled: restitution workshops, materials shared with colleagues, new teaching modules introduced in class. One person's experience becomes everyone's resource.
This is how Bianchi builds, year after year, a European network of partner schools that makes internationalisation a structural feature of its educational offer — not an exception.