Job Digital Lab: a series of sessions for 450 students across Italy gets underway
Today marks the start of “Digital Awareness: sessions on well-being, information and online safety”, the new training programme promoted as part of the Job Digital Lab project, in collaboration with ING Italia.
The series of sessions is aimed at secondary school pupils and involves 22 classes, totalling around 450 participants, spread across the whole country.
Three key dimensions of living in the digital age today
The programme addresses three central aspects of the contemporary digital experience:
- Well-being: how to manage our relationship with technology in a balanced way
- Information: developing critical thinking and responsible communication
- Safety: understanding the risks, behaviours and dynamics of online threats
The sessions adopt an experiential approach, based on real-life cases and direct dialogue with experts, including professionals from the Postal and Communications Police. As highlighted in the programme, the aim is to strengthen critical, interpersonal and digital citizenship skills, which are increasingly relevant for career guidance in the professions of the future.
The programme of sessions
The series consists of three online sessions, each dedicated to a specific theme:
- 9 April (10–11 am)
- Digital Balance. Well-being in the online world
- with Federica Bensi, Chief Technical Psychologist
- 13 April (10–11 am)
- Fake news and online language: truth and respect in the digital world
- with Leonardo De Cosmo, science journalist
- 21 April (10–11 am)
- Social Engineering: the invisible threat
- with Stefania Iannelli, Women4Security
A network of schools across the country
Schools from various Italian regions are taking part in the programme, including:
- IIS Cavalieri Marignoni (Milan)
- Licei Giulia Molino Colombini (Piacenza)
- I.I.S.S. Cillario Ferrero (Alba)
- IIS Severi-Correnti (Milan)
- IIS Viola Marchesini (Rovigo)
- IIS Erasmo da Rotterdam (Nichelino, Turin)
- IISS Luigi Einaudi (Manduria, Taranto)
- IIS Schiaparelli-Gramsci (Milan)
- IISS Domizia Lucilla (Rome)
- Liceo Maria Montessori (Rome)
- Istituto Omnicomprensivo A. Giordano (Venafro, Isernia)
This broad and widespread participation confirms schools’ interest in structured digital citizenship education programmes.
Training informed citizens, not just users
The programme forms part of the sixth edition of Job Digital Lab, reinforcing an increasingly strategic focus: not just technical skills, but the ability to interpret the digital world, manage information, relationships and risks. In a context where the online dimension permeates every aspect of daily life, from school to work, the educational challenge is no longer access to technology, but the quality of the digital experience.
