Design and experiment an innovative training course with schools to develop technical, entrepreneurial, digital, and financial skills, as well as life skills, as for over 30 years the World Health Organization has defined all the psychosocial, personal and soft skills that are necessary to help young people choose their future.
This is the main objective of I Had an Idea!, a pilot project for the empowerment of young women, promoted for the first time in Europe and Italy by Room to Read and the Mondo Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with the Foundation for Financial Education and al Savings (FEduF), Consorzio Arca, and L'Altra Napoli. Two schools are involved, the Vittorio Veneto in Naples and the Pietro Piazza Professional Institute for Food and Wine and Hotel Hospitality in Palermo, for a total of seven second and third year classes (4 in Naples and 3 in Palermo) and 133 students, mostly young women.
The project, the training activities, and the entrepreneurial ideas developed by the teams of male and female students during the course in Palermo will be presented on February 28 at the auditorium of the Pietro Piazza Institute. During the event, the students who completed the course will share their experience and “pass the baton” to the new classes, which begin their educational adventure in March.
AGENDA
10.00 | INTRODUCTION AND MODERATION
- Leandro Riccobono, Local Coordinator, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
WELCOME
- Vito Pecoraro, School Administrator, Istituto “Pietro Piazza” - Palermo
- Rosa Maria Rosone, Director, Economic Development – Social, Cultural, and Tourist Services, City of Palermo
10.15 | PROJECT “I HAD AN IDEA!”: FOUR PARTNERS AND A COMMON OBJECTIVE
- Mila Spicola, Project Manager, Schools, Room to Read Italia
- Giovanna Boggio Robutti, Director General, FEduF
- Monica Guizzardi, Communications Manager, Consorzio Arca
- Cecilia Stajano, Community Manager, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
10.40 | GROWING UP: TEACHERS AND COACHES
- Serafina Sallemi and Anna Giallombardo, teachers at “Pietro Piazza”
- Daniela Frenna, Coach, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
- Monica Guizzardi, Coach, Consorzio Arca
- Ivana Vitrano, Psychologist
11.10 | Coffee break
11.30 | ENTREPRNEURIAL IDEAS: AN EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE
The nine teams illustrate their business ideas to the audience.
- Moderator: Cecilia Stajano, Community Manager, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
12.30 | PASSING THE BATON: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
- Three representatives symbolically pass the baton to three new classes.
12.40 | AWARDS
- The jury, composed of representatives from partners and schools, present awards to the teams. Special prize to be voted by audience.
13.00 | CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS
- Mila Spicola, Project Manager, Room to Read Italia
