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The future begins with students and their ability to create the world and their character by developing the skills necessary to live and work in the 21st century. Project Meet No Neet, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with Microsoft, Roma Capitale and Italian Schools,is founding on this cornerstone.
The percentage of young Italians aged 15 to 29 who neither study nor work (NEETs – Not in Education, Employment or Training) stands at 23%. How can we make our young generations the protagonists of change and leave our negative statistics behind us?
Project Meet No Neet will provide 6000 students aged 18 to 24 in 9 Italian regions with a training opportunity that molds technology, social innovation and professional competences to help them enter the working world via social commitment. The students will be chaperoned by the teachers from 18 secondary schools (second degree) and 2 universities, trained to implement the project methodology.
The training meeting will begin on April 12 and continue through June 2013 in the 9 participating schools. Microsoft experts, social innovation trainers and trained teachers will participate in the first project phase.
The training process has three phases:
• Training – is based on the use of Microsoft software and technology as well as social innovation via the learning by doing methodology. It is based on a process of empowerment that uses innovative tools, such as micro-modules, video tutorials and teachers, to provide students with the tools necessary to develop their own social innovation projects.
• Creation – students will elaborate concrete projects to provide solutions to social needs that have not been satisfied by identifying problems existing in their daily life context and proposing a solution based on a custom-tailored development project.
• Contact – students will use their projects to come into contact with the working world, associations, agencies, companies and local institutions with the objective of generating interest and identifying partners and financers.
The 20 best social projects will receive prizes in December 2013.
The students will be helped along not only by teachers, but also by social innovation experts and Microsoft volunteers. The phyrtual.org platform will allow students to share their ideas, increase their knowledge and meet on-line with other innovators and possible donors.
Watch the video: “The Voice of Teachers” (in Italian)
