A training program consisting of three meetings (1 ½ hours each) provided an opportunity for debate and discussion among the participants. The topics addressed included: sport, health, sustainability, development and business.

A textile workshop, "Industry and Crafts Made in Italy - Fashion Production," took students on a journey of discovery of the local territory and culture. During the workshop, 19 skirts and three dresses were designed to showcase the popular traditions of Salento, in particular, its oral and musical heritage and symbolism of the Circle and Center at the heart of the traditional pizzica dance. The cultural phenomenon has spread in recent decades, reviving local history and traditions and allowing new generations to appreciate folk music. Many students are increasingly fascinated by the rhythm of the pizzica and eager to discover its values and meanings.

As part of the National Operational Program (PON) project, "The Wheel, the Circle, the Round," students learned the meaning of various choreographic aspects of ethnic music and the traditional costumes and colors (white, red and black) of the Salento dance. Similar to dances from other Mediterranean cultures, the pizzica involves characteristic circular movements. The project helped students explore a new dimension of their territory, one linked to the land - a bridge in the sea - exposed to winds that affect choices and movements. "The Round" represents an incessant coming and going, bringing into view the coasts and the territory from one shore to another, in a search full of deep and, at times, even ancestral feelings.

The discovery of the habitat, represented by the dancers’ movements back and forth in a perpetual motion like a spinning top, inspired students to select elements characterizing the land of Salento and incorporate them pictorially on the fabric. Arranged circularly on the bottom of the skirts, red poppies of the humble earth and pictograms of the Porto Badisco cave were highlighted by the dance movements and symbology.

The group project, led by external experts and tutors in collaboration with workshop personnel, enabled students to develop greater awareness of their identity. In addition, by working as a group, they learned to recognize proper and collaborative behavior.