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The challenge is to create a Network of Knowledge Volunteers in Italy through Project Telemouse, a digital literacy programme for the elderly, promoted in Rome by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and Telecom Italia.
It’s the European Year for Volunteering and more than 200 young students have already joined the network to tutor Roman elders and help them become digital experts.
The Awards Ceremony, under the patronage of the Ministry of Youth, was held on May 24 in the multipurpose auditorium of the Presidency of the Cabinet (via Santa Maria in Via 37). Biblioteche di Roma will donate a free membership card to all tutors and volunteers.
Cecilia would like to volunteer 7/24 and become the technological custodian of the elderly centre. Tomasso (14) has been inventing didactic web lessons for the over sixties. The young tutors participating in the Telemouse 3.0 – Knowledge Volunteers Competition are aged 12-20. Theirelder students describe them as “understanding, available, valid, competent, precise, patient, etc."
Three hundred and two voters presented the students’ candidatures: elders, teachers and tutors working in schools and elderly centres participating in Project Telemouse. The jury, composed by the Youth Department, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and Telecom Italia, examined all the profiles and will present awards to the winners on May 24 in the multipurpose auditorium of the Presidency of the Cabinet.
Danilo Creatara, a Radio Rai Parliamentary Journalist, will host the event.
Speakers include:
- Sofia Pain, Youth Department Director, Presidency of the Cabinet
- Massimiliano Tarantino, Corporate Communications Director at Telecom Italia
- Francesco Antonelli, President of “Biblioteche di Roma”
- Licia Cianfriglia, Deputy President of the ANP Association
- Mirta Michilli, Director General of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale
Two scholarships (€1500 and €500) will be presented to the students who showed the best didactic abilities during the Telemouse lessons and for their effort, ability and dedication to the Telecom Internet Corners in the elderly centres of Rome. Biblioteche di Roma will provide a free library membership card (Bibliocard) to all the knowledge volunteers.
The objective of the award is to promote the educational role of schools in active citizenship amongst the new generations and create a network of knowledge volunteers to share knowledge, promote and speed up the development of a democratic knowledge society.
The Telemouse 3.0 competition is part of the activities and projects that meet the spirit and objectives of the Piano Italia 2011 set by the National Coordination Organisation - DG Vounteering, Associations and Social Training of the Work and Social Policy Ministry as per European guidelines.
