"Sc.Art: the civic worksite of Science and Art for the Social" is a three-year project underway in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, promoted by the Panta Rei association with the collaboration of INAF and other partners in the Sardinian territory. The ambitious goal of the project is to create a permanent civic school of science and art.

SC.Art is a STEAM project that combines science, arts and social issues to contrast educational poverty, enhance and rediscover the talents and interests of children and young people. In particular, Sc.Art is aimed at all children between the ages of 5 and 14, with particular attention to those who, due to social vulnerability, risk not having equal rights and opportunities in accessing educational resources and cultural events of the city.

Launched in 2022 and lasting three years, Sc.Art introduces a new approach to scientific dissemination, combining artistic languages ​​and scientific methodologies to make the sciences, and in particular astronomy, accessible to a wider and more diverse audience.

The project has three fundamental strands:
a) Sc.Art Civic workshops (open to all children and kids, one day a week. In the Civic Workshops, girls and boys meet without "labels" in Urban Hubs, thanks to an educational pact that includes the family);
b) Sc.Art Workshops inside and outside the school (The teachers and project partners co-design a path that takes SC.Art to School and the School to the partners' locations and to the places of culture that the project will have put online. The "Workshops inside and outside the School" encourage a rapprochement with the educational paths of very young people at high risk of dropping out, as well as the development and/or strengthening of social, relational, artistic-recreational, scientific-technological and active citizenship skills of the little ones) and an
c) Sc.Art immersive summer school (During 5 weeks, children are accompanied, through an offer of artistic-scientific activities organized by thematic "rooms", to discover the world outside and inside, large and small, above and below, real and imagined through experiments and experiences conducted by science and arts workshops, supported by educators and psychologists. In the SC.Art Summer School, the project partners dialogue with the territory and the community to become a place for discussion, socialization, growth and care of common spaces).

Sc.Art aims to act on the double bind of educational poverty that "creates and is created" by poverty relational and opportunities:
- using new co-designed STEAM activities (it presents a large number of partner, both scientific and artistic)
- strengthening the quality of collaborations between public and private actors;
- transforming formal educational structures into inclusive community centers to activate new social economies and public spaces into civic places of learning;
- experimenting with interdisciplinary and intersectoral practices to develop skills and the talents of those involved.

In this talk, I will summarize the general lines of the project, the educational methodologies adopted and tested, the different co-designed and performed activities, the involvement of families, teachers, and project partners, the preliminary results of the social impact evaluation.

Keywords: STEAM, educational poverty contrast, astronomy, arts, playful learning, co-design, assessment.