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L. Giresini et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 46 (2018) 178-189; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.46.17 178 Design of Civil Environmental Engineering An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake L. Giresini University of Pisa linda.giresini@unipi.it https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6913-7468 M. Sassu University of Cagliari msassu@unica.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-2360 A BSTRACT . This paper illustrates a two-year program of summer internships that involved forty students from the School of Engineering (University of Pisa) in 2010-2011. The activity consisted in a systematic survey of damages occurred in a village after the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake and in the preparation of documents addressed to a reconstruction plan. The historical center of San Pio delle Camere (1000 inhabitants) was fully surveyed, including about 140 hypogeal sites. Each student spent at least one month in these activities, funded by study grants provided by the Tuscany Region. Teams of two-three students performed well-defined work packages, led by a tutor, who established roles and functions. The students discussed the progress made preparing a weekly report. Moreover, preliminary structural analyses were carried out to assess the seismic vulnerability of some relevant buildings, fully available to the students. The main results were published in a book presented in a workshop. Most of the results were used to set up the official reconstruction plan of the village. During this on-site laboratory, the students could experience the effects of that destructive earthquake on the population, visiting also the damaged surrounding towns and seeing with their own eyes many cases of structural collapses. K EYWORDS . Internships; Abruzzo earthquake; Teaching laboratory; Educational activity; Structural analysis; Survey of damages. Citation: Giresini, L., Sassu, M An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 46 (2018) 178-189. Received: 31.05.2018 Accepted: 27.08.2018 Published: 01.10.2018 Copyright: © 2018 This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. I NTRODUCTION fter the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake, the Tuscany region funded a two-year program of summer internships in one of the towns damaged by the main seismic shock, San Pio delle Camere (Fig. 1). During the summer of the years 2010 and 2011, about forty students from the University of Pisa were involved in activities of survey, monitoring A