Ulisse 2000: Promoting Education and Vocational Paths for Students
What matters is having sown the seed: sooner or later, without lacking youthful enthusiasm or passion, the fruits will come. And so, we can see a positive aspect in the first morning of Ulisse 2000, which featured many qualified speakers, including the provincial school superintendent Marcantoni himself, striving to reveal to high school students the pathways to their future.
They, the protagonists, are clearly divided into two groups: those genuinely interested in the prospects that the University of Trento offers to those who wish to continue their studies, and who listen attentively to the proposals carefully listed; and others who either haven’t yet considered the issue or have already resolved it, and are happily exchanging the latest thoughts on the world and beyond (this is called murmuring in the hall, amid the complaints of the current speaker), taking advantage of the morning away from desks, blackboards, examinations, and essays.
Afternoon activities and initiative
In the afternoon, vocational training took center stage, followed by presentations of the respective study plans by the three high schools of Busa Maffei, Floriani, and Gardascuola at the exhibition stands open (again today, morning and afternoon until 6 pm) at the conference center.
The guiding principles of the initiative—sponsored by Iprase and the provincial education service, as well as by the municipality of Riva—are essentially two, fairly similar in nature.
The first is a “buying campaign” conceived as an operation in which each upper secondary school invests time and effort to convince students leaving middle school (and who still have a year before completing compulsory education) to steer in one direction rather than another.
This display of proposals, linguistic laboratories, widespread access to computers, support initiatives, and guided visits also aims to help young people resolve problems and difficulties that an incorrect choice, or even one imposed by the family against their more or less declared talents and interests, can cause—also in existential terms.
