Reading the needs of students, in the modern-day reality, requires teacher to intervene with innovative teaching methodologies, able to integrate the two dimensions (analog and digital) of teaching and to promote talents. With these aims the comprehensive institute “Foscolo-Gabelli” in Foggia, formerly DADA school, signatory of a memorandum of understanding with the University of Foggia has included the DADA Teams in the Three-Year Plan of the Training Offer. They are cooperative working groups, carried out in curricular time. Within the DADA Teams, students are supported in learning by multimedia tools and learn to learn through transversal educational paths, discovering their talents passions and attitudes. This study aims to document the experimentation contextualizing it in the panorama of research on the interactions between teaching and talent development, where the use of flexible and “open” technologies and learning environments can be a driving force for change.

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The short wood supply chain: an opportunity for the forest bio-economy in ItalyThe motivations for the National Research Project on the Short Wood Supply Chain stem from the recognition of the great importance of the wood-based bio-economy for the future carbon-free society. In addition to the essential ecological benefits provided by forests, natural wood resources are expected to play a significant role due to the increasing wood demand for structural and non-structural uses. However, in Italy most industrial wood products are made from imported timber, which results in poor attention to local forestry, loss of traditional silvicultural know-how and reduced forest employment in most mountain areas. The project specifically aims: (i) to assess the feasability and sustainability of wood short supply chains; (ii) to promote new models of environmental certification and energy efficiency analysis; (iii) to create innovative products for bio-building (CrossLam, laminated timber, wood panels) using wood assortments from sustainable forest management in Italy; (iv) to characterise the functionality of wood products (with attention paid to architectural issues), predict wood degradation rate and assess conservation methods. Attention is specifically devoted to most common forest species in Italy, such as beech, pines, chestnut, deciduous oaks and poplar and to test thermal and surface treatments with natural substances and nano-materials.

Today, as never before, pedagogy is committed to a tricky and challenging role. To accompany today's man and woman along the path towards the change between continuity and discontinuity, in a lifelong and lifewide perspective. To provide them with cognitive, emotional and operational means in order to recalibrate and redesign their own projects of development against unknown, sometimes even radical, changes.If we consider today's political, social and economic conjuncture, which made the work become its Achilles heel, pedagogy of work is entrusted with a far more difficult challenge. That is to make an epistemological reflection and to concretely redesign theories and practices of lifelong learning and guidance to and at work, as Laborem Exercens said talking about "permanent truth" of the humanity.So, the pedagogy of work, in collaboration with other sciences, has to face the difficult gamble, on the one hand, to teach young generations a new culture of work and of "career construction", in terms of scenarios, knowledge, expertise; on the other, to teach adults to reconstruct and to enhance their own project of professional development, between stasis and change.Thus, training and guidance to and at work are of a high pedagogical caliber in the contemporary complex society, where a high level of engagement and responsibility is required, in order to "leading to system the education for the culture of work and for the self-entrepreneurship" (Linee guida per l'orientamento permanente, 2014) and to becoming recursive lifelong according to the different formative steps.Together with the problems related to the "lack of work", to the school-work alternance, to unemployment, to employability, etc, a pedagogy of work, characterised by a comprehensive nature and by a "Gardnerian" disciplinary habitus, has also to consider the important matter concerning the epistemological reflection which might reconstruct the interpretative frames of sense, meaning and values of work. A reflection of this kind is in fact the principal condition to avoid the effects of the heavy alienation of man and, at the contrary, to promote competences of direct control, awareness and responsibility about one's professional choice, expanding personal competences of self-monitoring and of existential guidance.In this multitude of variables and possibilities for realisation of this task, the pedagogy of work, first as a curricular science and then as telos of a formative culture based on the emancipation of the subject, may follow three distinctive axes. These are the three guidelines that, today more than ever before, characterise the mission of experienced-based knowledge and know-how and that mediate between the adherence to reality and the tension to Daniela Dato, Researcher, Department of Human Studies, University of Foggia; research areas/interests: general pedagogypedagogy of work. 399 utopia: to produce research, to communicate the change through a didactic approach, to promote personal and communitarian engagement seen as the capacity to bu...