Analysis Report Erasmus, Students and Teachers
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Protection project
Mobility abroad – Final Videos
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Mobility abroad – Last Day
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Mobility abroad – Day 5
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Mobility abroad – Day 4
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Mobility abroad – Day 3
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Mobility abroad – Day 2
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Mobility abroad – Day 1
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A 3D Guide to Rozzano Places of the Heart
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The City we would like
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Sustainability Party
Our first sustainability party, a dissemination event of eARTh Erasmus project, took place with our community in collaboration with Città Metropolitana Milano, Fondazione Osservatorio Milano and Erasmus Commission
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A newspaper article about our Erasmus eARTh Italian Week
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2026 Italian Week Day 5
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2026 Italian Week Day 4
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2026 Italian Week Day 3
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2026 Italian Week Day 2
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2026 Italian Week Day 1
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Erasmus Week in Italy
Lettera Dirigente Erasmus Week 2026
Erasmus eARTh 2025/26. Guides to the places of the Heart. The Project Theme
Our students chose these places to tell the story and protect:
Chiaravalle Abbey
Cascina Grande and Astronomical Observatory
Smeraldino Oasis
Calvino Institute Noverasco
Gran Canaria
Hämeenlinna
Transilvania
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ERASMUS eArth 2025/26. VISORS AND VISIONS
Calvino students, discovering the excellence of our suburbs, create a “guide to the places of the heart” with the help of visors
Who said there’s only one pairing: suburbs equal decay?
Thanks to the Erasmus eARTH project, whose theme is the relationship between suburbs and center and the dissemination of best practices for sustainability and heritage enhancement, a delegation of our students participated in a challenging mission: searching for places of excellence in the area around the school, with the aim of sharing their vision with our European guests, using new technologies.
The desire to change the narrative of our region and the desire to find places and people of excellence allowed our Erasmus students to deepen their knowledge of three wonderful sites, discover passionate stories, and discover unknown aspects of our surroundings:
The Chiaravalle Abbey
The Rozzano Observatory
The Smeraldino Oasis of Rozzano
The result?
The creation of interactive videos shared on a European platform, using the school’s visors, with the aim of increasing students’ ability to use increasingly sophisticated digital tools and creating a guide to beloved places, in line with the eArth project. The videos will be presented during the Erasmus Welcome Week with contributions from our foreign guests, also from the suburbs of small towns in Finland, Transylvania, Gran Canaria, Portugal, and Croatia, who will help us address the topic of periphery/center from their perspective as well.
Chiaravalle Abbey
The group of students was welcomed with great enthusiasm by Matteo, head of the Infopoint and a former student of the Calvino Institute, who explained his studies and everything related to the management of the Abbey.
The guide showed us the treasures and the ancient history of the site, revealing some interesting facts.
Did you know that Grana Padano was invented by the Abbey’s monks due to excessive milk production?
We began our visit with curiosity and amazement, sharing our pride in a site that attracts tourists from all over Italy and the world.
Civic Astronomical Observatory of Rozzano
Just a stone’s throw from our school, the Civic Astronomical Observatory stands within the Cascina Grande complex.
Not only a local landmark, but a true technical gem with the largest dome in Europe, second only to Chile in the world.
A place born of the passion of the Rozzano amateur astronomers and the collaboration with the Municipality, it houses the prestigious 1870 Merz-Dallmeyer telescope and its incredible history. Learning about its history, through the detailed narration of Michele Bini, who accompanied us, allowed us to appreciate its value even more and understand how the passion of people can lead to the achievement of important goals, such as that of the Observatory, visited by more than 9,000 people each year.
On the lower floor, the building houses precious documents and a moving story waiting to be discovered, linked to the stars and to a figure who shaped the history of astronomy: Mentore Maggini, Italian astrophysicist and astronomer. The space dedicated to him houses some of his scientific texts and precious watercolors resulting from his telescopic observations. The dual soul of scientist and artist finally converges in the moving pages of a very significant editorial project, “Urania,” dedicated to his daughter who passed away prematurely.
We recommend everyone to visit the Civic Astronomical Observatory: themed evenings, passionate stories, and a sea of stars await visitors!
Rozzano Smeraldino Oasis
A few kilometers from our school lies a protected natural area of over 22 hectares, located within the South Milan Agricultural Park and managed by the A.P.E. Natura association.
A former abandoned site, left as a landfill, transformed over many years of hard work into a natural refuge for biodiversity. The area has a long history: once part of the rice fields of Count Belgioioso, it slowly became a forgotten and degraded area.
Thanks to the passion of Catia Acquaviva and her association, A.P.E. Nature and its volunteers have patiently and tenaciously restored the area and returned it to nature and all the residents of Rozzano.
The unassuming entrance on Via Amiata actually opens the door to an unexpected world of birdsong, enchanted paths traversed by the rustling wind, and a surreal silence. Welcoming us with her unmistakable boots and wide, curious eyes was President Catia Acquaviva, who accompanied us on our walk through the area, revealing interesting facts about the Oasis’s inhabitants.
Catia reminds us once again of the importance of protecting and conserving the land, sharing an ethical story of hard work, love for the land, and its tiny inhabitants, emphasizing how every single living thing contributes to the well-being of the planet.
Did you know that the Smeraldino Oasis takes its name (“the color of a small emerald”) from a small frog protected by the Bern Convention and which has found its natural habitat in the ponds of the Rozzano Oasis, thus ensuring its safeguard?
The nature of the Oasis proves once again that “You’re never too small to make a difference!”
We recommend everyone to visit the Smeraldino Oasis: awaiting its visitors are its passionate volunteers, curious stories, the sound of the wind and many discoveries!
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Calvino School of Sustainability
This year, in line with the theme of Sustainability promoted by the eARTh project, the Erasmus commission has involved students from the 4GL of Noverasco, the 4DL of Rozzano, and the Italian and international students and teachers participating in the Erasmus program, in a series of meetings.
The teacher training course, designed and conducted by the Metropolitan City in collaboration with the Milan Meteorological Observatory, includes:
– A meeting dedicated to argumentative debate, where students will have the opportunity to experience firsthand an activity that trains them in discussion, listening, and argumentation, for transversal civic education skills, January 21, 3-5 pm, Rozzano.
– An in-person meeting that will explore, starting with the practical example of an escape room featured in the project, how using teamwork can make the content more engaging and participatory. This will take place on February 25th, 3-5 pm, at Noverasco.
– A final event open to the entire community, with participation from teachers, students, and families, on the topic of recycling, will take place on March 28th at Rozzano.
– A final online feedback webinar, to share ideas on how sustainability can become a common thread running through all disciplines, along with suggestions for improvements, adaptations, and materials ready for future use and reuse, will take place in June.
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The meaning of Mindfullness at School
Mindfulness is a practice of awareness that has become increasingly widespread over the years in the Western world (universities, businesses, high-level sports associations), thanks to the large body of scientific studies and research attesting to its effectiveness. Mindfulness increases concentration, attention, and memory, improves the functioning of our immune system, regulates our hormonal system, and more generally leads us to ever greater states of well-being.
For years, Dr. Enrico Gamba, a psychologist and psychotherapist who recently published a book on his studies with Bompiani, If you’re here it’s not by Chance, collaborates with our school and other schools to introduce this practice to teachers, to alleviate burnout, and to students, in an effort to increase their concentration and reduce increasingly common sources of stress, anxiety, and social withdrawal.
The Erasmus eARTh project has helped raise awareness of this practice among our partners by promoting it during the Erasmus welcome weeks among teachers and students from European host countries and by organizing annual training courses for school teachers. Through mindfulness practice, we can become increasingly self-aware and effectively modify our nervous system, fostering the structures and processes that best help us thrive in life.
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We are delighted to announce the names of this year’s Erasmus group!!!
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Calvino on the RAI broadcast Kilimanjaro
Calvino Institute remembers the Italian teacher who invented Erasmus: Sofia Corradi
Not many people know that the Erasmus project was invented by an Italian teacher: Sofia Corradi, an university professor who laid the foundation for the most important study abroad program in the European Union. She died in Rome on October 17th at the age of 91. Our Institute also remembers her for having enabled our students and teachers to study abroad with the contribute of the European Union.
For more than 35 years, millions of students have been able to choose to study at other European universities and schools, thanks in large part to Corradi’s determination. For years, she championed the importance of studying abroad and the need for recognition of the period of study and the exams taken.
Corradi was born in Rome in 1934 and studied law at La Sapienza University, choosing to continue her studies in the United States in the late 1950s thanks to a scholarship. She earned a master’s degree in comparative university law from Columbia University in New York, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, but to her surprise, upon returning to Italy, her studies abroad were denied recognition. In 1976, the principles developed by Corradi became part of a resolution of the European Economic Community (the predecessor of the European Union), which called on member states to promote university exchanges between different countries. In the following years, the first experiments were launched based on the model for recognizing exams, and therefore university credits, envisioned by Corradi.
Finally, in 1987, the Erasmus Program was born, with rules shared by European countries to allow students to study abroad. The Erasmus program, now called Erasmus+, was named in memory of the Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, who traveled across Europe between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with the aim of learning, comparing, and enriching the diverse cultures within. Over the years, Erasmus has become one of the most successful European programs, reaching not only universities but also schools (from elementary to secondary schools), with over 15 million students of all levels spending part of their studies abroad.
In 2016, Sofia Corradi was awarded the Charles V European Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for her commitment to promoting culture and European unification. She has received numerous honors around the world, noting that “we owe her tenacity to a program that has completely revolutionized the lives of our children,” contributing to the concrete construction of Europe.
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