Improving Massive Alternance Scheme: The Paradigmatic Case History of the Incubator of Projectuality at the Ferrari School of Rome

Since three years the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) has introduced a massive alternance scheme, completely new to Europe, whose implementation still shows several critical issues and requires a special effort by all potential players - schools, associations, enterprises, local communities, etc. - to design and experiment models and strategies capable to mitigate them. In this article we present the first validation of an approach, based on the simulation of innovation processes, that can be considered innovative in the context of the Italian School Work Alternance (SWA) scheme. The outcomes of the experimentation are encouraging and show an average increase of more than one point over ten in the student satisfaction with respect to that of peers who have experienced other schemes of SWA activities during the previous school year. Not by chance our proposal has been selected as best practice by the local association of the entrepreneurs. Despite of such positive result, as discussed in the body of the paper, there exists a considerable room for improvements.