The programme was spread over two full days and was mainly organised around three themed panel sessions. The first panel session focused on projects in which ICT has been used to support innovative teaching and learning methods. This panel session included interesting contributions from Belgian and Austrian schools, often involving students in the pilot seat, directing their own learning. The second panel session centred around the topic of innovative ways of organising school time and space, and the involvement of personalized teaching. This panel session included presentations from schools in Denmark, France and the Netherlands, and highlighted the importance of open work domains, flexible timetables, team learning, and innovative school architecture. The final panel session was devoted to the ways in which ICT has been used to help schools build closer relationships with their local communities. The Spanish, Portuguese and English school projects presented in this panel revealed the significant benefits to students' performance and well being as a result of working closely with diverse members of local communities embracing various opportunities, such as inter-generational learning.

The first day was mainly attended by teachers and head teachers from across Italy and mostly from secondary schools, but also lower levels. On this occasion, participants were encouraged to mingle and share experiences in a contact session, where they had a chance to ask more in-depth questions of a practical nature to presenters of the various themed panels. The event's second day followed a similar programme, but was this time attended by a larger audience, also including educational decision makers from across Italy, and at local, regional and national levels.

As a follow-up to the event, Bart Verswijvel (a Dutch teacher at Immaculata Instituut in Malle, Belgium) was interviewed by European Schoolnet. Bart presented his innovative project, Teacher Aid, where pupils teach teachers to use technologies. Bart explains the perceived impact on pupils and offers advice on how to go about such innovative projects in other schools across Europe (read the full interview here).

Learn more about the event on the Innovative Schools' Event blog