Training for innovation at Politecnico of Turin: Faculty Development, experience and research with students on the Aerospace Engineering course through Team Based Learning. Formare per innovare al Politecnico di Torino: Faculty Development, esperienza e ricerca con gli studenti del corso di Ingegneria Aerospaziale attraverso il Team Based Learning.

This article describes an innovative training experience carried out as part of the Learning to Teach (L2T) project at the Politecnico di Torino. L2T is a Faculty Development project which basically includes three steps: a longitudinal course aimed at developing the teaching skills of university lecturers, the experimen-tation of new forms of teaching/learning and the coaching of the experimenting lecturers. The article re-ports on the experience of a senior lecturer at the Politecnico who, after completing the L2T course, has decided to introduce a collaborative teaching strategy, Team Based Learning (TBL), into his aerospace en-gineering course. The article describes the context of the Politecnico di Torino, the features of TBL, the experimentation carried out by the faculty member and the results achieved by the students. This article highlights the virtuous circle that can be implemented by training, experimentation, scientific thinking and communication, in other words, how Faculty Development initiatives can produce changes in the at-titudes of lecturers and also encourage activities of reflection and research on university training, giving rise to processes of scholarship of teaching and learning.