At the regional Citadel the councilor for Agriculture, Gianluca Gallo welcomed the students of the fifth classes of the “Enzo Ferrari” Higher Education Institute of Chiaravalle Centrale, specialized in scientific and professional high school for agriculture, congratulating them on the prestigious result obtained with the creation of an ArcgGis virtual map dedicated to the silk roads in Calabria and the census of ancient mulberry plants, using the MorusApp platform.
The students participated in the European Arachne project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, during the 2023 – 2024 school year.
The work carried out allowed the IIS Ferrari to achieve an excellent result, ranking first for the plant census and second place for the virtual map.
“I am a parent of your peers – stated Councilor Gallo – and like my children I tell you to make the best use of the time factor, studying and learning, not being satisfied, but aiming for quality. Continue to follow as you have done on this occasion, your leaders and teachers. Behind this result – he continued – there is a great commitment, a lot of time spent studying, knowing and discovering the territories, listening to the stories and historical memory of a territory, gaining experience until reaching this level. You have achieved a great objective, you will be able to achieve many others, increasing pride and awareness of belonging to Calabria which is probably not the last region that we think it is”.
The school director intervened during the initiative Fabio Guarnathe teachers Chiarina Macrina of the scientific high school e Leania Condello of the agricultural instituteGiuseppe Corti director of Crea – AA, Silvia Cappellozza responsible for the Gelsibachiculture Center of Padua e Diana Mantegazza contact person for the Aracne project.
Also present Teresa Gualtieri national president of FICLU, Antonio Paonessa director of the State Archives of Catanzaro, Teresa Notaro And Angela Bertucci of the “Spazio Donne” association and the Memorandum Study Center of Cortale, Chiara Pirroncello “Universochiara” of Chiaravalle Centrale e Domenico Vivino owner of the Nido di Seta company in San Floro.
Among the guests the commissioner of the Serre Regional Park, Alfonsino Grillo.
The satisfaction expressed by the school director was great Fabio Guarna for the results obtained by its students. “An excellent result – he underlined – not only for the school, but for the whole of Calabria and it is precisely for this reason that we wanted to share it today with councilor Gallo, always present and strongly convinced that schools must constitute a point of important reference for the regional socio-economic fabric. It was a European project shared online and which allowed our students to compare themselves with other schools in Europe, bringing out the Silk Roads in Calabria. The result obtained will allow the children, thanks to the contribution of Crea, to visit the sericulture center and the Esapolis Museum in Padua”.
The ambitious objective of the project is to relaunch silk production by rediscovering the tradition of silkworm cultivation in Calabria.