IIS EINSTEIN-NEBBIA, Loreto, Italy
IIS Einstein
Nebbia is the result of a merge between a business/administration/tourism
technical institute and a vocational hotel & catering school. It is the
only secondary high school of this type in the territory of Loreto and
surrounding municipalities under the provinces of Ancona and Macerata. With a
population of more than 1100 students and about 140 staff (including teaching and
non teaching one), the institute offers diverse professional curricula:
accounting, business administration, tourism, welcoming, cooking skills,
waiting/bar skills, pastry-making, along with adult evening cooking courses,
special training courses for young people who failed the regular education
path. Students can add extra skills from other curricula: ECDL and B1/2
certifications in English, French, German and Spanish languages. Courses of
Italian for foreign students are organised every year to help students coming
from abroad to get integrated into the new social and educational life.
The institute
has matured a great experience in EU projects (Leonardo, Comenius, Grundtvig,
Erasmus+) and has organised work placements as part of the school curricula of
the students attending the 3° and 4° grades for many years.
The presence
of one of the most important sanctuaries devoted to St. Mary in Italy, other
natural attractions and places of cultural and artistic interest have a great impact in the local economic environment, giving life to a
lot of infrastructures and facilities created to support tourism. There are
several family run SMEs, most of which have business relationships with foreign
countries.
Our students have various
personalities and different attitudes towards school life:
- clever and motivated pupils, who are
willing to learn specific knowledge and competence;
- students who have not yet developed
an appropriate degree of motivation to learning;
- pupils from a difficult or
disadvantaged family or socio-economic environment, a condition which may also
cause behaviour disturbs and school failure or desertion;
- students with special needs,
following either the same activities planned for their classmates or
individualized paths according to the degree and type of learning problem;
- extra community students who
contribute to create a multicultural environment in our institution.
This heterogeneity in the school population and
in the professional profiles offered have fostered an equal diversification in
the expertise of our teachers, who always do their best to help students find
the most suitable way to express their own potentialities and reach
satisfactory levels of autonomy, integration and personal fulfilment.
