Borgo Valsugana
Istituto comprensivo scuola primaria e secondaria di primo grado "Ora e Veglia"
The Borgo Valsugana Comprehensive Institute is, within the provincial education system, a body with legal personality and functional autonomy in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and provincial law no. 5 of 2006.
The Institute is based in Borgo Valsugana in via Alessandro Spagolla n. 1 and was established on 1 September 2000.
The institute includes four complexes, two of which are Primary Schools and two are Secondary Schools.
The Oltreconfine project was born and developed within the SSPG complex of Borgo Valsugana named after two partisan fighters Ancilla Marighetto Ora and Clorinda Menguzzato Veglia.
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Profile of the teachers involved
ALESSANDRO TURCATO
Graduated in linguistics, he has been teaching Italian, history and geography for seven years at the Istituto Comprensivo di Borgo Valsugana - First Grade Secondary School, where he is also an intercultural reference. In recent years he has designed and coordinated educational projects on outdoor education and of an intercultural context. Since 2017 he has been studying the reality of Štivor and promoting projects on the "mobile and mixed" identities of migrants. He is the creator, promoter and coordinator of the Oltreconfine project as regards the historical, anthropological and geographical aspects.
FRANCESCO ANDREA MINORA
PhD in Territorial, Urban and Environmental Planning, he has been teaching Technology and Information Technology for 3 years at the Comprehensive Institute of Borgo Valsugana - First Grade Secondary School, where he is a digital animator and referent for didactic planning and innovation. Over the last few years he has been involved in the study of common goods, presenting his research at an international level. He has designed and coordinated national and provincial educational projects. He is the creator, promoter and coordinator of the Trentino Oltreconfine project as regards the digital part.
MARINA SEGNANA
Graduated in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
Since 2000 she has been teaching English at the Comprehensive Institute of Borgo Valsugana and has been the trustee of the Secondary School of the same for two years.
Take part in the project, involve pupils and take care of the linguistic part of their productions.
MARIA BERNARDI
Doctor of Primary Education Sciences and primary school teacher at the comprehensive Institute of Levico Terme. He based his thesis on a historical-linguistic research work on the migratory phenomenon that affected the lower Valsugana at the end of the nineteenth century, and implemented an educational project with primary school children, children of families from the village of Stivor. She collaborated in the Oltreconfine project as an external cultural expert, as in addition to the research work carried out on the issue of emigration, she has direct experience with the reality of Stivor, a Bosnian town inhabited by descendants of Trentino migrants.