PINN Kicks Off in Emilia Romagna

 

Over the course of the coming months, digital literacy courses will begin for the elderly in seven provinces of the Emilia Romagna Region (Italy). In the meantime, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale is training the teachers. The first six training workshops, dedicated to intergenerational learning, were held in Piacenza, Scandiano (Reggio Emilia), Modena, Sestola (Modena), Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) and Forlimpopoli (Forlì-Cesena).

 

 

The courses will be taught by school children coordinated by a technology teacher and will help local adult citizens to learn how to used PCs, e-mail and other new communication tools through weekly lessons.

 

The Pane e Internet Project, promoted by the Emilia Romagna Region for 2011-13, has added the intergenerational learning model and through an agreement with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, the project has become Pane e Internet per Nonni e Nipoti.

 

In the Region’s seven provinces – Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini will import the successful model that the FMD has successfully tested for over 9 years in Rome and other Italian regions.

 18 schools will open their classrooms to the digital elderly.