Reggio Week

Two Programs, One City

REGGIO EMILIA · 4-10 OCTOBER 2026

A week of professional learning for educators, school leaders, atelieristas, architects, museum educators, and learning designers, shaped by the city, the schools, the ateliers, and the conversations that happen between them.

Designed with Erasmus+ accredited schools in mind

What if learning began with wonder?

For one week in October, we welcome you into Reggio Emilia, a city where pedagogy, art, architecture, materials, food, and public life have long been part of the same educational conversation.

What happens when educators, architects, artists, and all those who shape learning in classrooms, in cities, in museums, in studios share a city for a week? What can we learn together that we cannot learn alone?

Reggio Week brings together two parallel programs: The City as Atelier, for those who want to explore place-based learning and the city as a learning environment; and Designing Learning, for those interested in the relationship between art, architecture, creativity, and pedagogy.

Each participant chooses one journey. Across the week, the two groups come together through shared sessions, meals, cultural visits, dialogues, and moments of reflection.

This is not a standard, traditional course, and it is not a study tour in the usual sense. It is a small, carefully curated learning week for people who want to return to their schools and organisations with new questions, new possibilities, new language, and new ways of designing learning.

A street in Reggio Emilia, Italy — setting for Educ@demy's Reggio Week program

For Erasmus+ Accredited Institutions

Reggio Week was created for educators, schools, and organisations looking for a different kind of professional learning experience. While the program has been structured to fit smoothly within Erasmus+ staff mobility funding, many participants join through independent funding or professional development support from their schools, municipalities, universities, and institutions. We warmly welcome educators from around the world.

For one week, participants join a small international cohort in Reggio Emilia to explore learning through guided visits, ateliers, architecture, materials, conversations, school visits, cultural encounters, and the city itself. The program is intentionally small and carefully curated, creating space for genuine dialogue, reflection, and exchange between participants from different disciplines and contexts.

At a Glance

Next Dates 

4-10 October 2026

Group Size 

Max 20 per program for meaningful professional exchange.

Location

Reggio Emilia, Italy

Format 

Two parallel programs with shared moments

Language

English, with professional translation support from Italian

Fee

From €660

Flexible Packages

Optional add-ons help schools choose the experience that fits their goals and budget.

Documentation

Support with confirmation letters, Learning Agreement, certificates, and fee breakdowns.

Erasmus+

KA1 friendly for staff mobility planning

Choose Your Journey

THE CITY AS ATELIER

Place-Based Learning

DESIGNING LEARNING

Art, Architecture, Creativity, and Pedagogy

Fees

What's Included

Remida, Reggio Emilia. A globe and a colorful illustrated brochure with people walking and cycling on a city street, placed on a wooden table with newspapers and flyers.

Each program unfolds through facilitated learning, guided visits, atelier experiences, cultural encounters, reflective conversations, and shared meals.

What you pay

Option 1: Base week‍ ‍

Course Fee‍ ‍€660

Participant Services and Cultural Program ‍ ‍€240

Total: €900

Option 2: Base week + atelier upgrade €1,010

Option 3: Base week + school visits €1,250

Option 4: Base + school visits + atelier upgrade €1,360

Travel to Reggio Emilia, accommodation in the city, and personal meals outside of the ones indicated in the program are not included. Once your place is confirmed, we share recommendations on neighbourhoods, hotels, and travel routes.

How It Works

Still have questions? Send us a quick message. If you’re feeling ready, go ahead and apply.

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Glimpses from June ‘25

What Sets Our Programs Apart

Two Programs, One Community

Most study weeks are single-track. Reggio Week runs two side by side. We gather educators, architects, atelieristas, and designers into the same five days. The conversations move between disciplines, between people.

A Small, Intentional, Curated Group

Connection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the content itself. Twenty participants per program. Small enough for real conversations, slow enough for relationships to form. No back row, no auditorium.

Co-Design, Not Presentation

You are not an audience. You arrive with your own questions, contexts, and projects and the week is structured around shared inquiry. The program is shaped with you, not delivered to you.

Reggio Emilia, A Living Atelier

There is no other place like it. For sixty years, this small Italian city has shaped how the world thinks about children, schools, and learning. Walking its streets is part of the curriculum. So is sitting in its piazzas, working in its ateliers, eating at its tables. The city itself is our classroom.

An Italian Tradition of Imagination

In Italy, imagination has long been treated as a serious matter — a craft to be learned, a right to be defended, a way of thinking with the hands as much as the head. The week draws on this tradition: Reggio Emilia, of course, but also Bruno Munari and Gianni Rodari, whose work shaped how generations have understood play, design, and storytelling.

Meet Your Facilitators

Özgen Bagci Cervo, founder of Educ@demy.
AJ Ernst, Lead Facilitator, Education Strategist | Professor | Researcher

Ozgen Bagci

Founder & Creative Director

Ozgen is an educator, learning designer, and community connector whose work explores the relationship between imagination, place, creativity, and the design of learning environments. She is the founder and creative director of Educ@demy, where she designs and facilitates immersive learning experiences that invite educators to see cities, materials, architecture, public spaces, and everyday environments as active partners in learning.

Her work brings together influences from the Reggio Emilia approach, place-based learning, art and design education, creativity research, and participatory pedagogy, with a particular interest in how environments shape the way people learn, relate, and think together.

She currently serves as Academic Program Director at ETS Local Partner in Italy and as a Community Lead for Western Europe at HundrED.

A.J. Ernst, Ed.D.

Lead Facilitator

A.J. brings two decades of experience designing schools, programmes, and learning experiences that expand opportunities for all learners. His work moves across the full ecology of education — from classrooms to leadership, from community initiatives to institutional redesign.

Having worked as a middle school teacher, high school principal, nonprofit founder, university professor, and researcher, he brings a rare ability to connect everyday educational practice with larger questions of systems change, equity, and the future of learning.

He holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Strategic Data Project Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. He also serves as a Community Ambassador and Innovation Evaluator for HundrED.

Frequently Asked Questions

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