Mind the gap: lab activities begin today.
Lab activities organised by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale begin today for Mind The Gap, a three-year project (2023-25) financed by the Agency for Territorial Cohesion in Milan’s Municipality 4. The initiative, coordinated by ActionAid Italia with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Junior Achievement Italia and the City of Milan, involves girls and boys aged 11-17, teachers, and educators. The aim is to reduce school dispersion and educational poverty by creating and modelling a public/private prevention and contrast service.
The objectives are:
- Strengthen the role of school and the educational community in the fight against educational poverty
- Disseminate a creative and conscientious use of digital technology
- Promote the acquisition of civic and social skills, increasing the civic participation of young people and the educational community
- Create a space where the educational community can develop innovative and sustainable responses to educational poverty, building models of a more inclusive and democratic school and community governance.
For first-degree secondary schools, the FMD is responsible, together with Junior Achievement, for Action 4 "Training and Motivational Courses for First-degree Secondary Schools." In particular, FMD will hold lab activities for an original learning experience entitled "What’s the Shape of Idea?" that will stimulate students to combine creativity and technology with a conscious and careful use of tools and to enhance digital skills in an innovative and fun way. Students will be involved in creative workshops on digital skills in which the ideas that emerged in the previous phase of the course are transformed into prototypes, products and communication materials. Today, activities will interest a class from IC Marcello Candia in a video-making journey, while tomorrow, IC De Andreis begins its Mind the Gap adventure with a laboratory dedicated to coding.
In the afternoon, FMD activities will also begin at CAM Mondolfo, a space in Milan that aims to allow aggregation, social participation and recreational, cultural, training and sporting activities, free of charge for all age groups. FMD's commitment to CAM Mondolfo began last year as part of Project OpenSPACE. The experimentation continues with Mind the Gap, which involves local young people in an original course on videomaking and video editing.
