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Lamia comes from Tunisia and works in a pastry shop in Rome. Thanks to a computer course, she is learning, along with her tutor, how to manage the shop accounting on an Excel spreadsheet.
Alessandro is a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian student who adores the civic education seminars. He has learned about the constitution, human rights and how to recognize and protect himself from illegal affairs. Alessandro would like to become a diplomat.
Mihaela, who is seventeen, is from Romania. She has only been in Italy for three months, but wanted to audit the Italian language course to improve her language skills and understand her new friends.
These are just a few of the stories of the over one hundred individuals participating in the “Intergenerational Learning: school as a learning environment for key integration skills” Project, co-financed by the European Union (European Fund for the Integration of third country nationals). The project aims to facilitate the integration of foreign minors in Italian schools, contrast discrimination and promote intercultural dialogue.
The project, which is coordinated by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale with the Eriches 29 Consortium of Social Cooperatives and the collaboration of the Il Percorso Cooperative, is being held in Rome’s XV District (in the Magliana, Corviale and Trullo areas) where a high percentage of immigrants reside. The consortium participated in the Interior Ministry’s (Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration – Central Direction for Immigration and Asylum) call for the development of territorial projects addressing the actions set in the (European Fund for the Integration of third country nationals 2007-2013.
The project methodology involves students from partner schools who act as tutors to foreign students and make learning a highly collaborative and personalized experience.
Partner Schools:
- Istituto statale Colomba Antonietti
- Istituto Comprensivo Statale Fratelli Cervi
- Scuola media statale Riccardo Quartararo
