Educazione intergenerazionale ed innovazione didattica. Studio di caso: progetto Plinio, quando gli anziani insegnano a fare impresa. Intergenerational Education and Didactic Innovation. Plinio Project: Getting the Elderly to Coach new Startups.

Despite the fact that entrepreneurial skills are part of the key competences to be achieved, by the end of secondary school, in Italy there are no present educational policies about it. This paper describes the project “Plinio” presented as a case study. A group of retired managers offered their expertise to help students, attending a vocational school, in forming a start-up enterprise. As such, it is a training programme aimed at teaching how to translate ideas into action, to plan and manage projects to achieve objectives. At the same time emphasis is put on valuing the expertise gained in the course of personal and professional life by elderly people.