USR Veneto is one of the regional branches of the Italian Ministry of Education. USRV is an autonomous body performing administrative tasks. It is divided into 6 departments having responsibilities at regional level and 7 local branches. Its main objectives are: supporting the innovative processes through the introduction and implementation of the reforms undertaken in the education and training system; implementing those processes functional to the improvement of the teaching taking into account the results of the national and international assessments; guaranteeing the right-duty to receive an appropriate education and preventing early school leaving; launching initiatives on the vocational guidance and counselling; promoting school-work experiences and internships addressed to students in the high schools; improving the quality of the learning through the enhancement of the basic competences, the promotion of the scientific and technological culture, the enhancement of the European languages study, also with reference to the certification of the competences;