The new school will have 500 pupils, and the dozens of teachers who will work there will have undergone a special 3-year training program on climate crisis, sustainability, the environment and active schooling methodologies. Over the weekend, thanks to the efforts of the Foqus Foundation, a new school complex, the first in Italy with an environmental educational vocation, will be inaugurated in Naples. The facility will include a nursery, kindergarten, primary and secondary school. It will revive an abandoned building and will be based in the Quartieri Spagnoli, the neighborhood that in Europe has the lowest percentage of green space per inhabitant - half a square meter compared to the 45 available to other Italians. A neighborhood where one in three kids does not go beyond the fifth grade. The new school will have 500 pupils, and the dozens of teachers who will work there will have undergone a special three-year training program on climate crisis, sustainability, environment and active schooling methodologies, according to a program curated by the CNR and leading Italian agencies and universities committed to environmental issues. The inauguration of the school will be preceded and accompanied by three days of public meetings, with speakers arriving from all over the world. Expected from Paris is 102-year-old philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, who will give a talk entitled "Lessons from a Century of Life" to Naples and its students.
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