While Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is on an official visit to the United States (San Francisco, New York and Detroit), a new alliance grows stronger between the two countries.
As part of the Italian Semester at the Presidency of the European Union Council and for the European Code Week, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the American Government, via the American Embassy in Italy, in collaboration with Girls Who Code, have launched a new challenge: Coding Girls Rome-USA. This is an eight-day event dedicated to female students from primary and secondary school.
The press conference for the presentation of the new project will be held at the American Embassy in Rome on October 14 at 12:00 am.
This female alliance between Italy and the United States began in Seattle, more than 9000 km away from Rome, at the Microsoft YouthSpark Summit (April 30 – May 2, 2014).
Mirta Michilli, Director General of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, participated in the summit as a Global Youth Spark Advisor, bringing the experience of the first successful edition of Project Meet No Neet. The summit was also an important opportunity to develop new relations and launch new challenges, like this one, meant to bridge new technological gaps for female students.
In the meantime, collaboration with Microsoft continues with Project Meet No Neet 2 and the voucher campaign promoted with Telecentre Europe and Tesi Automazione, to perfect and certify the competence of youth and simplify their access to the working world.
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