Even the last crowdfunding campaign by one of the schools participating in Project “Active Ageing and Solidarity Amongst Generations through Learning and Social Innovation” implemented as part of the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity Amongst Generations (Italian Government – Family Policies) and promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
Project Ancient Trades is promoted by a group of teachers and students at the Istituto comprensivo Boscotrecase IC 1 - SM Prisco in Boscotrecase (Naples), the school managed by Headmaster Edoardo Cozzolino. Students in the first year of first degree secondary school introduce elders in the town to digital tools and help them safeguard the area’s historic memory. The project is part of the school curriculum.
The project has involved 30 high schools and various elderly centres in six regions of southern Italy [see news Local Welfare] and last Wednesday the final event was held in Palermo (see news Local Needs).
This virtuous relationship has given rise to 20 experimental, local, social innovation actions ranging from a digital printing shop run by disabled students, conceived by students and elders in Biancavilla, to a dynamic museum that will infuse new life into old objects of daily life and work, developed by an intergenerational team in the Municipality of Randazzo. Each project has given rise to a true community of innovators, who, day after day, learn to develop new ideas and use them to improve their community. Thanks an initial 600-euro contribution, the students and elders were able to start a crowdfunding campaign on phyrtual.org, involving more actors in their project and opening up to new successful co-projecting experiences.
