Registration is now open for MoMe Labs, workshops and studios dedicated to children and young people, an integral part of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, scheduled to take place from 6 to 16 August 2025.
An afternoon of Continuing Education to explore how the brain adapts and learns, with a focus on key aspects of cognitive development and learning disorders.
The focus of the proposed project is the protection and prevention of sexual violence against children and adolescents growing up in Switzerland in an extra-familial context.
Educational simulations are the focus of the new Breakpoint meeting. This method, useful for educating citizenship, enables the acquisition of theoretical knowledge about decision-making processes in democracy and the practical skills underlying their operation.
With a view to citizenship education and the transversal competence of personal development, teaching simulations aimed at developing critical thinking, argumentative dialogue and decentralisation will be presented during the meeting.
A meeting to explore the two Teaching Notes written by teacher-researchers from the Competence Centre for Education, Learning and Teaching of the Department of Education and Learning / University of Teacher Education, reflect on the proposed topics and share possible future developments.
The Life Design methodology transforms school guidance by making young people active ‘designers’ of their own future, thanks to participatory activities between schools and the local community. The Breakpoint meeting explores the topic in depth.
The Breakpoint meeting presents doctoral research focusing on the effects of the CAE (experiential learning cycle) teaching strategy on certain cognitive constructs in fourth and fifth grade classes in primary schools, with the aid of technology.
A public evening to present EDUCO, a digital education project aimed at the students of the Collina d'Oro school center, and to take stock of the initial results.
During the meeting, the SFERA model for analysing and improving teaching performance will be presented. A self-assessment questionnaire will also be tested to understand which factors most influence one's effectiveness in the classroom.
ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) is a challenge for many adolescents, as well as for their families. This presentation offers useful hints on how to recognise typical behaviour, deal with difficulties and support boys and girls in their development.
A day of sharing and dialogue around the topic of training professionals who accompany people with autism spectrum disorder during the different stages of growth.
Study conference on the role of empathy in personal and social development, support and learning.
The next Breakpoint meeting offers a theoretical and practical presentation on glocal citizenship education to meet the challenges of Ticino's secondary school, highlighting the implications of this approach for disciplinary and inter/transdisciplinary teaching.
L’incontro Breakpoint presenta due progetti di ricerca-azione basati sulla collaborazione tra saperi pedagogici e teatrali, con l’obiettivo di generare nuove prospettive all’intersezione tra ricerca e formazione.
The meeting presents the new ROSE teaching platform, which allows teachers to visualise the online research carried out by students on curriculum or topical issues in an immediate and intuitive way.
The Breakpoint series of meetings continues with an appointment dedicated to the union of two disciplines, Italian and mathematics, in an ‘italmatic’ perspective in a first primary school in Ascona.
This Breakpoint meeting aims to illustrate, from an eco-linguistic perspective, the situation in Italian schools, with a focus on the Sicilian reality and the practices for the protection of minority languages and dialect varieties.
A study day dedicated to the Ticino territory during the Second World War and in particular in relation to the events of the Ossola Partisan Republic.
The Breakpoint meeting presents the ERASMUS+ NEFELE project, designed to offer a set of tools for teachers to promote the positive resources of pupils engaged in early career choices.
A meeting to explore the training path and professional opportunities to become a music education teacher at secondary school.
Learn about the path and career outlets offered by the Master in Secondary Education I for French or German disciplines.
Transforming a Public Good Game into a classroom game to develop transversal communication and collaboration skills.
A valuable opportunity to learn about training offers in the field of teaching, attend presentations, request information and collect course material.
The didactic platform ‘Assistance and Coercion’ aims to promote knowledge at school of a still little-known chapter of Swiss social history, that of coercive measures for welfare purposes and out-of-family placements.
The Breakpoint meeting presents the “I Have a Plan!” toolkit and the “Great Guide to the Magadino Plan” podcast, two resources that are part of a project aimed at knowledge and enhancement of the area.
The next meeting in the Breakpoint series is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of ethics in research.
The Breakpoint meeting proposes a research work that explores the theme of familiarity and kinship in the light of the inherent ethical and social value to be safeguarded and protected in its various conformations and ways of being-family from birth.
