Stargate is a student orientation project for guiding children and teenagers in their choices and critical school transitions. The project encompasses a series of actions that involve the youngsters’ entire families and the educational community as a whole, to help children make their life choices without being afraid of change.

Stargate – Stepping up to the Future was selected by the non-profit organisation “Con i Bambini” (With the Children) within the Fund to fight educational poverty among children, coordinated by Cesvol Umbria (Service Centre for Volunteering in Umbria) with the involvement of a wide partner network. It will run in the area of Trasimeno and Assisano (social zones no 3 and no 5 in the Region of Umbria) until August 2023.

Stargate will include workshops, meetings, training sessions and even a game app created in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. Around 1300 youngsters of various ages will take an active part in the project, and one hundred or so family households will be involved, funded through an overall budget of about 460 thousand euros, around 400 thousand of which is provided by Con i Bambini and the rest by the partners in the project.

The project intends to help families, teachers and younger students in making informed choices about their schooling and then about their work. This is also the function of the game app to be created by Fondazione Politecnico di Milano within the project Stargate – Stepping up to the Future. We will be running highly interactive workshops at secondary school, the Istituto Superiore Bonghi, where Foundation specialists will be on hand to assist the youngsters in a series of game jams where together they will imagine, design and build a student orientation game app.