Itis G. Giorgi is located in the South area of Milan, not far from the tourist downtown,where you can admire the famous Duomo.

The Duomo is one of the most famous buildings in Europe. It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the second largest Catholic cathedral in the world.

The school is well connected by the means of transport: the green line of the underground is at less

than 100 metres from the Institute. the bus stop is near the underground station.

La Scala is a world renowned opera house in Milan, recognised as one of the leading opera and ballet theatres in the world.

About 700 students attend classes at Giorgi.ITIS G.Giorgi is a secondary school including: daytime courses for students aged 15 to 19, evening courses for worker-students.

Daytime courses

Evening courses

Courses at Giorgi last five years, divided into:

a two-year course (“biennio”), dealing with basic education, concerning common subjects

such as language, chemistry, phisics, science.

Biennio

a three-year course (“triennio” a post-biennio), offering different specialitations:

electrotechnic expertise, electronic expertise, mechanical expertise, scientific technologic expertise.

Triennio

Since 1966 Giorgi has been one of the most important technical Institutes in Milan. It is the biggest Italian evening school .Students come not only from internal areas of the city but also from the southern suburbs of Milan.

The evening course

Special attention is given to foreign students. Extra-curriculum Italian language courses, realized in collaboration with the City of Milan and other specialized centres,are offered to them.

 

Giorgi’s main goals, defined in its educational program (“P.O.F.” document) are:

Promoting culture, social relationships and environmental respect.

Offering technical-scientific training to its

students in order to allow them to face the challenges in today’s society which is in continuous evolution.

ITIS Giorgi’s goals

Giorgi’s strong points:

Every class is being closely followed by a coordinator and a tutor (each one of them with specific tasks).

The justice of the peace (a committee composed of two students and two teachers, chosen equally from daytime and evening classes) is in charge of solving possible disciplinary problems.

Justice of the

peace

Giorgi’s experience in European Projects has increasedmore and more recently. Taking into account only the last five years:

Minerva Project: the use of videoconferencing to enhance multilingualism and communicative competence in Europe.

Inspire Project: new teaching methods in the field of maths, science and technology (MST).

Comenius Project: a project on migration issues.

Giorgi’s Projects

Grundtvig Project: E-tutor for lifelong learning: competence and methodology.

Grundtvig Project: European Learning Objects - an interactive methodology in adult education.

Grundtvig Project: Mobile: a new technology for adult learners. Grundtvig Project: Exploring ways to reach the “Hard to Reach”

Giorgi’s Projects

Giorgi’s network

C.T.P. network enables Giorgi to organize courses for students over twenty in order that they can develop the curricula of two scholar years in only one.

Indire Platform enables students to be in touch with an online tutor and to solve unexpected problems at distance.

Moodle Platform enables students to improve their skills from home.

blended e-learning experimentations allow students to follow an e-learning lesson from home at least once a week.

Giorgi’s quality has been certified by CISQCERT for 5 years. CISQCERT is an external authority which certifies the quality of education.

This project enables us to monitor the actual situation and tofind possible weak points in the system and overcome them.

Our school is named after Giovanni Giorgi, an Italian scientist and engineer born in 1871.Giorgi is famous for the introduction of the fourth unit of measurement based on Electricity: the ampere.The new system, called MKSA (or Giorgi System) was recognized by the International Electronic Commission in1935.

Who’s Giorgi

Department of machine-tools

CNC lathe

Electronically-controlled milling machine

Design Lab

Electric Measures

Automation Lab

Chemical Lab

Chemical Lab

Giorgi’s green area

Giorgi’s car park