Abstract
This report describes the Italian context of the transnational project MSSP2 (Meisei Summer School Project 2020, Round 2) and describes challenges and opportunities that arose from it. The report provides a descriptive account of pedagogical principles that endorsed the commitment to the project and presents reflections that arose from the experience. Major approaches to the project were constructivist and collaborative. The report illustrates how a whole network of project participants in the northern Italian region Trentino-South Tyrol cooperated with Japan to actively construct knowledge. The ultimate goal was to keep learning in a challenging time of unprecedented restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The forced online shift was finally exploited as an opportunity to keep developing by digitally spanning transnational boundaries.