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Six high schools in Rome, 120 students as i-tutors, 12 senior knowledge volunteers, 15 local associations and 500 over-65 students. These are the numbers of the pilot edition of “Starting Back Up Together,” the project developed in collaboration between the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious DiseasesRegione Lazio and the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to contrast the isolation of elders during the health emergency and introduce them to the use of on-line health services.

 

The entire project was implemented on-line during the pandemic. There were no physical meetings between participants, not even the coordinators. Young students in local high schools helped elders to learn how to use the main on-line health services, using smartphone applications, and understanding which virtual assistance tools to use, exclusively through a telephone helpdesk and a videocall service.

 

As soon as the Lazio Region was categorised as a “white area,” some of the elders expressed their interest in meeting in person. And this is how the “mini summer school at the bar” was conceived to provide a new learning opportunity. The event has been organised by Cecilia Stajano, Innovation Community Manager [@Cstajano], together with Eleonora Curatola and Valentina Gelsomini.

 

A few days ago, a small group of elders and tutors met in the evening for an ice-cream. And how do you order if there are not paper menus? Matteo was right there to explain how to use digital menus with QR Codes with a smartphone camera ...

 

It was a special evening of emotional belated first meetings and reunions, like that of Matteo De Curtis, now a university student (studying for a Masters in Physics at Sapienza University in Rome), who had volunteered as a tutor for Grandparents on the Internet in high school. Matteo, who had received an award and a mention at the Campidoglio Awards Ceremony for the Knowledge Volunteers Competition, was also interviewed, at the time, by the Redattore sociale [see news: Volontari in rete].

 

Here are two photos of him at work as a knowledge volunteer. The first photo is from 2013: Matteo, a student at the Liceo Socrate Computer Lab for a Grandparents on the Internet session. In the second photo, he is explaining how the digital menu works.

 

 

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