IISS Majorana

What IISS Majorana does

I.I.S.S. E. Majorana (Brindisi, Italy) is a public upper-secondary school (codice meccanografico BRIS01700B) operating two campuses under the Italian Ministry of Education and serving roughly several hundred students aged 14–19 across three tracks: Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate, the experimental four-year Liceo TRED (Transizione Ecologica e Digitale), and the Tecnologico in Chimica, Materiali e Biotecnologie. The institution has positioned itself as a national reference point for digital and ecological transition education, designated by the Ministry as one of 23 Polo Nazionale institutions for digital-transition teacher training and as a PNRR-funded Polo Nazionale Didattica Digitale.

Its central technology bet is Book in Progress AI, a custom-developed, multimodal AI platform that inverts the generic chatbot paradigm: rather than students prompting a model, the system proactively adapts content to each learner's style using a database curated exclusively by the school's own teachers. The platform supports text, image generation, 2D/3D animation, advanced text-to-speech for students with special educational needs (BES), continuous progress monitoring, and a teacher authoring system, and is being released as open source to all Italian schools. Supporting infrastructure includes the Spaggiari-powered Registro Elettronico (via Argo Software), Google Workspace for education, and a WordPress-based school portal.

Commercially the school generates no revenue: it is funded entirely by the Italian Ministry of Education plus EU structural funds (PON) and PNRR programme allocations. The effective customer base is local students and their families for secondary education plus, nationally, teachers receiving digital-transition training through the Polo Formativo Nazionale. The school has built partnerships with Consel (Consorzio ELIS) on the TRED programme, the Erasmus+ network, ETwinning, and the European Schoolnet FCL Network, and received recognition including the Global Schools Prize 2026 AI Transformation category win, SAFI Best Practice designation by the Ministry of Education, and ETwinning School 2026/2027 recognition.

Name

IISS Majorana

Legal name

I.I.S.S. E. Majorana (Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore Ettore Majorana)

Website

https://majoranabrindisi.edu.it

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IISS Majorana is a public Italian upper-secondary school in Brindisi offering scientific, ecological-digital (TRED), and biotechnological tracks, while operating as a national digital-transition training pole and the lead institution behind the open-source Book in Progress AI adaptive-learning platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secondary Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Learning Data Infrastructure & Interoperability (LRS, xAPI/LTI/OneRoster, Data Pipelines) (EDAFAFAJ)

Keywords

• Public secondary education
• AI educational platform
• Teacher training services
• Digital learning tools
• Science and technology schooling

Headquarters

HQ city

Brindisi

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. State Funding: The school is a public institution fully funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (Ministero dell'Istruzione e del Merito). No commercial revenue streams exist. All educational services are provided free of charge to students and families. The school also receives EU structural funds (PON) and PNRR (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza) funding for specific projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

IISS Majorana is a public Italian upper secondary school (Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore) in Brindisi, providing free secondary education across three tracks: Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate, Liceo TRED (Transizione Ecologica e Digitale), and Settore Tecnologico in Chimica, materiali e biotecnologie. The school also developed Book in Progress AI, an open-source AI-powered adaptive learning platform, and serves as a national training pole (Polo Nazionale) for digital transition training of school staff.

Product overview

IISS Ettore Majorana is a public Italian upper secondary school (Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore) offering educational programs and digital services. The institution operates a unified educational platform led by Book in Progress AI, its flagship open-source AI-powered learning platform that adapts to student learning styles. Supporting services include the Spaggiari-powered electronic register (Registro Elettronico) for attendance and grades management, the Albo Pretorio for legal public notices, and Amministrazione Trasparente for administrative transparency compliance. The school also serves as a Polo Formativo Nazionale and Polo Nazionale Didattica Digitale under Italy's PNRR, providing digital transition training to school staff nationwide. Three main study pathways are offered: Liceo Scientifico with Applied Sciences option, Liceo TRED (Ecological and Digital Transition), and the Technological sector in Chemistry, Materials, and Biotechnology. The school has gained international recognition including the Global Schools Prize AI Transformation category winner (2026) and ETwinning School status.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Book in Progress: A network of schools that creates and produces teaching materials as substitutes for textbooks, written by teachers from the national network. IISS E. Majorana of Brindisi serves as the lead school (scuola capofila).
• Book in Progress AI

Products and services

• Liceo TRED - Liceo della Transizione Ecologica e Digitale A four-year experimental secondary education track combining traditional humanistic-scientific education with ecological and digital transition knowledge, designed for Italian students aged approximately 14-18.
• Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate A five-year secondary education track focused on scientific subjects with an applied sciences orientation, offered to Italian students in the Brindisi area.
• Settore Tecnologico - Chimica, Materiali e Biotecnologie A technological secondary education track with specializations in Chimica e Materiali, Biotecnologie ambientali, and Biotecnologie sanitarie, offered to students in Brindisi.
• Book in Progress AI An open-source AI-powered educational platform that adapts to individual student learning styles, providing personalized content, 2D/3D simulations, monitoring tools, and AI authoring capabilities for teachers. Built using a teacher-created database to avoid privacy and bias issues common in generic chatbots.
• Polo Formativo Nazionale - Formazione alla Transizione Digitale National teacher training service designated by the Ministry of Education to provide digital transition training programs for school staff across Italy.
• Polo Nazionale Didattica Digitale (PNRR) PNRR-funded national pole for digital education, part of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan to modernize teaching through digital tools and methodologies.

Quantifiable outcome

• First place globally in the AI Transformation category of the Global Schools Prize 2026
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Book in Progress National School NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe IISS Majorana serves as the lead school (scuola capofila) for the national Book in Progress network, a collaboration of schools across Italy that collectively develops open-source educational materials as substitutes for commercial textbooks. Materials are produced by teachers from the network and available in print and digital interactive formats. This initiative addresses both learning quality and the financial burden of textbooks for families.
• Erasmus+ ProgrammeminorOthersThe school participates in the Erasmus+ European exchange programme, providing students and teachers with international mobility and collaborative learning opportunities across European schools. The school maintains an Erasmus+ website at sites.google.com/majoranabrindisi.org/erasmusmajorana.
• Consel (Consorzio ELIS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConsel (Consorzio ELIS) is a consortium of large companies and enterprises that partners with the TRED (Transizione Ecologica e Digitale) high school network. The consortium helps schools identify learning topics aligned with future labor market demands and offers students opportunities to test their knowledge in real-world situations. 27 schools participate in the TRED network.
• LiquidLaw Srl (Data Protection Officer)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLiquidLaw Srl has been appointed as the school's Data Protection Officer (Responsabile della Protezione dei Dati, RPD) to ensure compliance with GDPR and Italian data protection regulations. Contact: [email protected].
• LiquidLaw Srl (Event Co-organizer)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerLiquidLaw co-organized the 'Intelligenza Artificiale a Scuola' (AI at School) event held on 23 May 2025 at the school's Via Primo Longobardo campus, bringing together institutions, experts, and companies to discuss AI integration in schools in a safe and compliant manner.
• European Union (PNRR/PON funding)coreOthersThe school receives funding through EU structural funds including PON (Programma Operativo Nazionale 'Per la scuola') and PNRR (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza). Projects include PCTO (work experience) abroad, digital transition teacher training (D.M. 66/2023), and the AVVISO 1.4.1 citizen digital services initiative.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• IXL Learning: Subscription-based adaptive learning platform covering K–12 subjects with personalized practice. Comparable to IISS Majorana's adaptive learning goals, but distributed commercially versus through public-school channels.
• Duolingo: AI-personalized learning platform at massive scale with adaptive content and multimodal features. Comparable in adaptive-AI architecture and personalization depth to Book in Progress AI, though focused on language rather than a full secondary curriculum.
• Carnegie Learning: Provider of AI-driven math tutoring and adaptive instructional software (MATHia). Comparable to Book in Progress AI's adaptive tutoring and multimodal simulation features but sold to schools as a commercial product.
• Squirrel AI Learning: Large-scale adaptive learning operator using AI to diagnose student knowledge graphs and personalize instruction. Comparable in adaptive-AI architecture to Book in Progress AI, though operating as a commercial incumbent rather than an open-source school-led platform.

Emerging players

• DreamBox Learning: Adaptive math platform that personalizes instruction to student learning styles using AI. Closely aligned with Book in Progress AI's student-style adaptation paradigm.
• Photomath (Google): AI-powered math tutoring app that adapts to student work and provides step-by-step guidance. Comparable consumer-facing AI tutor to Book in Progress AI's personalized student experience.
• Brainly: Peer-to-peer learning platform widely used in European secondary education. Comparable as a free, school-adjacent learning support tool and demonstrates a viable European K–12 distribution model similar to IISS Majorana's open-source strategy.
• CK-12 Foundation: Open educational resource platform offering free, customizable textbooks and adaptive practice. Mirrors IISS Majorana's open-source, teacher-built content approach and its goal of reducing textbook costs for families.
• OpenStax (Rice University): Publishes free, open-source textbooks used widely in secondary and postsecondary education. Comparable to the Book in Progress national network, where IISS Majorana acts as lead school producing teacher-authored open educational materials as substitutes for commercial textbooks.

Direct peers

• Khan Academy: Non-profit provider of free educational content that has layered AI personalization (Khanmigo) on top of teacher-built material. Closely comparable to IISS Majorana's Book in Progress AI model: free, AI-tutor enabled, content originated by educators, and explicitly addressing student learning-style variation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@BOOKINPROGRESS/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/iissmajoranabrindisi
• Instagraminstagram.com/majoranabrindisi/?hl=it
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/iiss-majorana

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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