The second week of Project Grandparents on the Internet at the Post Office, which provides digital literacy courses for over-sixties in post offices, is currently underway in six pilot cities: Ascoli, Asti, Mantua, Naples, Palermo and Rome.
Starting in September, the programme will be extended thoughout Italy.
Here’s the programme for Thursday, July 16:
Mantua, via Nenni 2
10 am, second lesson
Roma, via Lenin snc
10 am, four lesson
Ascoli, via Francesco Crispi 4
10 am, third lesson
The project is promoted by Poste Italiane in collaboration with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale that has provided the Italian Postal Service with a turnkey intergenerational learning model (didactic kit, methodology, tools, etc.), developed thanks to the experience of thirteen editions of Grandparents on the Internet.
Here are what some of the participants, who have discovered computers and the Internet for the first time, have to say: