National Plan for Digital Education
The Italian National Plan for Digital Education (Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale — PNSD) is a policy launched by the Ministry of Education, University and Research for setting up a comprehensive innovation strategy across Italy’s school system and bringing it into the digital age. It is one of the pillars of “La Buona Scuola” school reform (Law 107/2015), a vision for concrete action reflecting the government’s response to the most significant challenges for innovation in the public administration system. Innovation in the school system and digital education opportunities are key drivers of this vision.
The PNSD consists of a total of 35 actions, organized into four main areas:
- Connectivity: actions to ensure access to the Internet by all educational institutions, students and school staff;
- Environments and Tools: actions aimed at providing educational institutions with innovative learning environments, based on the use of digital technologies;
- Skills and Contents: actions aimed at promoting and enhancing students’ digital skills and encouraging the development of quality contents for digital teaching;
- Training and suporting measures: actions aimed at supporting educational and digital innovation through accompaniment courses for educational institutions and training for school staff.
Training of school staff
Scuola Futura is the platform for the training of school staff (teachers, ATA, DSGA, DS staff), as part of the actions of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), Education Mission.
Contents and training modules are divided into 3 thematic areas (Digital transition; STEM and multilingualism; Reduction of gaps), which take up 3 of the investment lines for skills defined by the PNRR: Integrated digital teaching and training of school staff for the digital transition, New skills and new languages, Extraordinary intervention to reduce territorial gaps and fight against early school leaving.
CPIA teacher training
CPIAdigitale is part of Action #25 PNSD for the in-service training of school staff on the digital transition of the school and is aimed at teachers involved in adult education with targeted training proposals.
