Sky Up The Edit: meeting in Scampia with Minister Abodi

Sky Up The Edit: meeting in Scampia with Minister Abodi

Second meeting in attendance for the 2023/24 edition of Sky Up The Edit, the project created with the aim of improving the digital skills of the youngest and which, for this school year, has had the values of sports at its center.

The meeting took place this morning at the Liceo “Elsa Morante” in Naples, Scampia district, where Minister for Sport and Youth Andrea Abodi participated in a talk with Sarah Varetto, EVP Communications, Inclusion & Bigger Picture of Sky Italia, and Sky Sport director Federico Ferri, in front of a large and attentive audience of students. Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara sent a video message to participants in the initiative. In support of the project, the event was also attended by the City of Naples Councillor for Youth Policies and Labor, Dr. Chiara Marciani.

The discussion, characterized by great participation and interest by the students of the high school and more than 160 schools from all over Italy connected via streaming, è was focused on the value of sports, to be protected as a right for all, and on the importance that the’sport activity canò assume in the formation 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 Sky Sport original productions. There was no shortage of speeches and questions on the’importance of sports as a deterrent factor in cases of gender violence, knowledge of the rules that increases respect for the’opponent, economic aid for young athletes/students in difficulty, and the proper use of digital tools in interpersonal relationships.

Sky Up The Edit è also the focus of a memorandum of understanding signed by Sky Italia and the Ministry of Education and Merit, the Minister for Sport and Youth. The project offers students between the ages of 8 and 18 the opportunity to develop their digital skills through the creation of original audiovisual journalistic content on a chosen theme, this year the values of sports, to stimulate their talent and ability to work as a team, principles embodied in healthy sports competition and fundamental to the personal growth of the youngest.

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 and personal socialization, practicing sports as much as possible as a matter of individual and collective well-being. It’ s not an easy commitment, because’ you have to be able to enter the codes of young people, their languages, using their channels and formats, for’ the feedback is good. In the schools I am meeting curious girls and boys, who want to conquer life even if they do not have all the elements to be able to orient themselves. We have to try to make our contribution, the school does it in an important way, probably we need more and more to tune the school to the external reality and bring it closer to the perspectives of life”. 

Minister Valditara, in his video message, stressed how the Sky Up The Edit project supports “two fundamental aspects in educational processes: on the one hand, the values and ethics of sports, its educational function towards a culture of rules, its importance as a tool for inclusion and combating dispersion, but also for health and a correct lifestyle. From the’other, the enhancement of digital skills and pathways for transversal skills and orientation in sports to make young people aware of and orient them towards the different opportunitiesà of the labor market”. For Minister Valditara, moreover, “the principles of sports fit fully into the underlying action of the Ministry of Education and Merit with the aim of disseminating a universal language, transversal to cultures, with which to communicate the values of respect for the person, for every person, while at the same time using new technologies, through specific training paths that enable the proper use of digital tools”.