IESS is a high school located in the center of the town of Reggio Emilia, Italy. The school has a strong international vocation, open to innovation and new technologies, offering balanced curricula of European languages and culture, humanities and sciences. It offers an innovative educational project in terms of both contents and methods, which places not curricula but students in the center of the learning process, helping them to have an acting role in their own learning. IESS is a modern school, with digital classrooms, cutting edge ICT technologies, personal iPads for both teachers and students and text books also in digital format. It is a new way of schooling, closer to its students, based on more interesting and stimulating lessons, active participation of students to lessons, use of the Internet also in the classroom and the most advanced teaching methods. IESS is also a new way of learning, focusing less on notions and more on contents, based on method and constant commitment, continuous assessment of results and continuous dialogue between students and teachers. The school is characterized by a facilitating environment for teaching and learning, where both teachers and students enjoy a rich, stimulating experience, run with managerial criteria and attentive to the needs and opportunities of the job market. It brings on a project of excellence, supported by carefully selected teachers, that invests in training and research. IESS is a state-approved independent school, offering access to all university programs, promoted by a Non-Profit Organization.