European Commission's Webinar on Small Rural School Innovation through Internationalisation

Giuseppina is a researcher who joined INDIRE in 2003, after an internship in Brussels at European Schoolnet (EUN). Her research activity is aimed at developing distance learning models and analysing innovation processes in schools which also concern the relationship between space and learning. Specifically, she deals with innovation models for schools with multiple classes and/or small dimensions.

Stefania holds a PhD in Educational Sciences with a research program focused on the use of ICT in learning environments. She has been a researcher at INDIRE since July 2014. For years she has carried out research at the University of Florence on the topics of educational content, digital languages, cultural marketing, collaborative writing processes and social media.

First Researcher at INDIRE. Head of the Research Structure "Methodological and Organizational Innovation in Small Schools" and the National Movement of Small Schools. Scientific Coordinator of the SUD Territorial Nucleus Research Area. His research explores the role of ICT of isolation and multi-class situations and the enhancement of the territorial dimension in the organizational and educational form of the small school. Since 2019 he has been Head of the Series "I Quaderni delle Piccole Scuole" (ed. INDIRE) and since 2022 he has been Director of International Scientific Series "Universe School. Plural looks and possible scenarios" (ed. Pensa Multimedia).

She is a member of several research associations both at the international and international level (ATEE - Association for Teacher Education in Europe; SIPED- Italian Society of Pedagogy; Sirem- Italian Society of Research and Media Education -Sie-L- Italian Society of e-Learning; CKBG- Collaborative Knowledge Building Group) and is part of the Special Interest Group of EUN on "Small and Rural Schools." She is the contact person for the Délégation du Québec à Rome of the national experimentation of the Classi in Rete model in Italy. She is the author of more than 150 publications including articles in national and international journals, volume contributions and editorships.

Salvador Páez Rodríguez comes from Estepa, (Andalusia) South of Spain. He works as a primary and physical education school teacher. He also holds a degree in Phycology. He had coordinated the eTwinning Group in Rural Areas in Spain from 2020 to 2022 and now he is the moderator of the European eTwinning group “Small and remote rural schools. 

Many years ago, he found that eTwinning offered many opportunities to learn either from collaboration, communication and project development with partners from all over Europe. Since he became an eTwinning ambassador he also focuses on rural areas with onsite and online webinars, workshops and seminars, National and European Level.