With Job Digital Lab, an ethical hacking challenge at RomeCup 2025
Fondazione Mondo Digitale and ING Italia present “Digital Superheroes”, a training course within the Job Digital Lab project, designed to make three-year secondary school students aware of the risks of the digital world. The initiative aims to provide essential skills for recognizing and preventing cyber threats, protecting personal data and using technology in a safe, responsible and informed way.
Through an interactive and engaging format that combines training, inspiration and competition, students explore the potential of cybersecurity, a rapidly expanding strategic and interdisciplinary sector with increasingly significant prospects for growth and professional opportunities.
The activities recognize up to 10 hours of Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (Pcto), offering students a concrete learning experience that can be used in their learning and development path.
EDUCATION
The course includes two online meetings lasting an hour and a half each, structured to provide students with basic computer security skills. Participants acquire theoretical and practical tools to understand how computer systems work, identify their main vulnerabilities and apply defense techniques to protect data and end users.
A specific focus is dedicated to the mechanisms of psychological manipulation in the digital world, with particular attention to social engineering strategies and good practices for recognizing and preventing cyber attacks.
ETHICAL HACKING CHALLENGE
The program culminates with participation in the RomeCup, the multi-event on robotics and artificial intelligence promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and dedicated to young people.
On May 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the University of Roma Tre, students will have the opportunity to meet with experts in the field and talk with players from the Italian cyberdefender team, before moving on to the competitive phase where they can put into practice what they have learned by participating in ethical hacking challenges and solving computer security puzzles as a team.
The team with the highest score at the end of the competition will be declared the winner.
IMPACT AND EXPECTED RESULTS
- Greater awareness among young people of the importance of cybersecurity
- Development of strategic skills in the field of cybersecurity
- Enhancement of problem solving and teamwork skills
- Bringing students closer to a growing sector, rich in professional opportunities
CALENDAR
- Webinar 1: April 4, 3:30-5 p.m.
- Webinar 2: April 11, 3:30-5 p.m.
- Final challenge in person: May 8, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
APPLY
The activities are aimed at students in the third year of secondary school. No previous knowledge is required to participate. Each school can participate with several classes or students who are deserving and interested in the subject.
