Italy: University of Rome Three / Prof. Sandra Chistolini

University of Rome Three is State Higher Education Institution with a wider experience in the management of international cooperation projects, technical and operational expertise. The over 40,000 students enrolled represent a winning strategy founded on offering a wide-range of courses and on innovation that focuses on the quality of the teaching and the introduction of the young into the working world. One of the milestones for Roma Tre, as well as a guideline for its development, was its incorporation in the surrounding area, characterised by the reclamation of old buildings and school premises, transformed into modern facilities for study and research. During 22 years of academic activity, the Roma Tre "project" has gradually but constantly brought into focus its particular profile; that of a dynamic and efficient seat of learning that, step by step, has become an acknowledged point of reference both in the Italian and the international university system.

Roma Tre offers a wide choice of post-degree courses (masters, PhDs, and specialization courses), enhanced through the valid collaboration of both public and private enterprises There are about 970 teachers. The research area is formed of 12 Departments. The Department of Education at Roma Tre University (UNIROMA TRE – Italy) is made up of 206 professors among which full professors, associate professors, full-time researchers and lecturers. The Department offers four Bachelor’s degrees and three Master’s degrees.

The Forest School recently born in the surroundings of Rome (Italy) is a pedagogical proposal rooted in the history of education worldwide and is a challenge to the Western globalisation of culture. Children’s dialogue with nature prefigures the search of an ethics for the technological age as aim for the salvation of mankind and as development prerequisite. The imperative of responsibility is in the school where pupils are learning strategies of active citizenship and experiment ways of sustainability. The right to the wellbeing means living together and learn the peace code. The experience in contact with the sensible world gives the feeling of being an integral part of the universe perceived as friend. Current projects led by the University Roma Tre with the Forest school represent a positive response to Europe 2020 and are a scientific investment to extend the training of teachers beyond the walls of the campus. The academic lesson founds a new paradigm of pedagogy of nature.