The second in-person meeting for the 2023/24 edition of Sky Up The Edit, a project aimed at improving the digital skills of the younger generation, which, for this academic year, has focused on the values of sports.
The meeting took place this morning at the "Elsa Morante" High School in Naples, Scampia district, where the Minister for Sports and Youth Andrea Abodi participated, in front of a large and attentive audience of female and male students, in a talk with Sarah Varetto, EVP Communications, Inclusion & Bigger Picture at Sky Italia, and with the director of Sky Sport Federico Ferri. The Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara sent a video message to the participants of the initiative. Supporting the project, the Councilor for Youth Policies and Employment of the Municipality of Naples, Dr. Chiara Marciani, also took part in the event.
The discussion, characterized by great participation and interest from the high school students and over 160 schools throughout Italy connected via streaming, focused on the value of sports, to be protected as a right for all, and on the importance that sports activity can have in the training of young people.
The students then commented, together with Sky Sport journalist Gianluca Di Marzio, on some of the themes that emerged from watching excerpts from recent original Sky Sport productions. There were also interventions and questions on the importance of sport as a deterrent in cases of gender violence, on the knowledge of the rules which increases respect towards the opponent, on financial aid for young athlete/students in difficulty, on the correct use of digital tools in interpersonal relationships.
Sky Up The Edit is also at the heart of a memorandum of understanding signed by Sky Italia and the Ministry of Education and Merit, the Minister for Sports and Youth. The project offers students between the ages of 8 and 18 the opportunity to develop their digital skills through the creation of an original audiovisual journalistic content on a chosen theme, this year the values of sport, to stimulate their talent and the ability to work in a team, principles embodied by healthy sports competition and fundamental for the personal growth of the youngest.
To participate, teachers can register their classes on the website www.skyup.sky, where among the available teaching materials there is also a wide selection of Sky Sport content, documentaries, and insights into the lives and stories of great champions. Students have until April 15, 2024, to present their journalistic service.
Minister Abodi, interviewed by Sky Sport 24, recalled how "the purpose of this initiative is to help boys and girls find the right balance between digital socialization and personal socialization, practicing sports as much as possible for a matter of individual and collective well-being. It's not a simple commitment, because it's necessary to be able to enter into the codes of the young, in their languages, using their channels and their formats, however, the feedback is good. In schools, I am meeting curious girls and boys, who want to win their life even if they do not have all the elements to be able to orient themselves. We must try to give our contribution, the school does it in an important way, probably it's always more necessary to tune the school with external reality and bring it closer to life prospects".
Minister Valditara, in his video message, highlighted how the Sky Up The Edit project supports "two fundamental aspects in educational processes: on one hand the values and ethics of sport, its educational function towards a culture of rules, its importance as a tool for inclusion and to fight against dropout, but also for health and a correct lifestyle. On the other hand, the enhancement of digital skills and pathways for cross-curricular skills and orientation in the sports field to make young people aware of and guide them towards the different opportunities of the job market". For Minister Valditara, moreover, "the principles of sport are fully part of the fundamental action of the Ministry of Education and Merit with the goal of spreading a universal language, transversal to cultures, with which to communicate the values of respect for the person, for every person, and to use at the same time new technologies, through specific training courses that allow a correct use of digital tools".
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