As part of the departmental strategy 2021-2024 of the Innovative Technologies Department, the Teaching Innovation Team, with the advice of the Teaching and Teacher Education Service (SEDIFO), organized a series of eight seminars in which some of the department's faculty members presented to interested colleagues an innovative teaching intervention implemented independently within their courses.

This initiative aimed to promote, foster and inspire the dissemination of best practices, as well as to strengthen the sense of community through moments of sharing and conviviality.

The meetings, attended by nearly a hundred faculty members of the department, were always characterized by a friendly atmosphere, fruitful discussion and an atmosphere conducive to discussion and growth. Gaming, creativity and visualization, tools and software, and different approaches to traditional face-to-face lectures were discussed, all accumulated by the need to put students' new needs at the center.

Very much appreciated, in particular, was the last seminar in which some of the pupils also took part: if in the first seven meetings, the proposed methods, approaches, and tools were described from the teachers' point of view, it was appropriate to ask what the students' opinion was and whether there were any needs left unmet. It was undoubtedly valuable to hear their views, the impact the innovative interventions had on their learning and the usefulness of the lesson.

"From this series of meetings, it became clear that teaching innovations foster motivation, activation, engagement, participation and development of soft skills but, at the same time, require greater alignment with students' needs. Above all, it emerged that everyone can make teaching innovations: the hope is that these good practices will find more and more diffusion in the teaching challenges of the future," comments Stefano Scaravaggi, lecturer in some of the Basic Training modules and member of the Team that organized the meetings.