First edition | Italy-Slovenia

The first edition of the Students4Cooperation competition was held during the 2024/2025 school year. Students were tasked with forming a team and preparing their own Interreg project in written form, choosing between one of the themes proposed in the Guidelines:

Information and communication technologies
Circular economy/Nature
Sustainable tourism
Better cooperation between schools or youth associations

First and second phase of selection

By the deadline for the submission of project proposals (1 December 2024) seven project ideas have been recieved from six schools in the Programme area. Following a thorough evaluation, the jusz drew up the ransking for the frist phase. As provided for in the Guidelines, all participating teams were admitted to the second evaluation phase, which took place in March 2025. This phase concluded with an online meeting held on 7 March 2026, during which the teams presented their project ideas with a video or PowerPoint presentation. After listening carefully to their presentations, the jury announced the winners of the first edition of Students4Cooperation:

FIRST PRIZE: the team from 4th class ESABAC of the Liceo linguistico Scipio Slataper of the Istituto superiore Dante Alighieri in Gorizia with the project LET'S JOIN - I.S.Y. Italian and Slovenian youth
SECOND PRIZE: the team from 4th class of the Znanstveni licej Simon Gregorčič from Gorizia with the project DOSLA - Dobrodelni slavček
THIRD PRIZE: the team from I.S.I.S. Nautico ‘Tomaso di Savoia Duca di Genova - L. Galvani’ from Trieste with the project INSIEME - Iniziamo Noi Scuola Isola Ecologica Modello Ecosostenibilità

FINAL RANKING LIST

Ranking list of the FIRST EVALUATION PHASE

Awards

The winning team from the Liceo linguistico Scipio Slataper (Gorizia) took part in the awarding ceremony on the 27th March at the Teatro Verdi in Gorizia, during the first day of the main event “Interreg GO!”.

The Director of the Directorate general for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission (DG REGIO) Slawomir Tokarski and the Managing Authority of the Interreg Italy-Slovenia Programme Laura Comelli awarded the students with a study trip to Brussels, which took place from May 5 to 8, 2025. During their stay, they had the opportunity to explore the places where European policy is shaped. The experience allowed them to understand that the European Union is not a distant entity, but a tangible reality that directly affects the daily lives of its citizens.

The teams that ranked second and third had the opportunity to visit the Programme Area and some projects funded by the Programme. The excursions were organized and financed as part of the project Kohezija za vse / Coesione per tutti: Brez meja / Senza confini (a project organized by the PiNA Association for Culture and Education and funded by the Directorate-general for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission under the call Information Measures fo the EU Cohesion Policy - IMREG).