The School of Cryptography for Young Learners SCYL offers:
1. An opportunity for European citizenship and the study of cryptography for ten Italian and ten Romanian students selected through joining the call and passing the entrance test.
2. A one-week trip to Romania in spring 2023, as an introduction to cryptography and an opportunity for team building in a European perspective. This is to lay the foundations for an experience of European citizenship, of awareness of mutual belonging to the EU, which, through the Small Scale Partnership (KA220), finances this project.
3. A first-level course for the study of cryptography with lectures by university lecturers on a platform during the school year 2023-2024.
4. Subgroup meetings on the platform (after each lecture by the lecturers) followed by tutors from the sponsoring association for problem solving and sharing of operational strategies.
5. Team building activities in itinere to foster a collaborative style and team playing skills.
6. A workshop in Rome in the spring of 2024 to close the project with in-depth studies on cryptography, orientation meetings on science degrees with a look at career opportunities and training on gender issues in STEM fields.
7. A final cryptography event with group competition during the workshop in Rome.
8. Cryptography and other stories” workshops during the workshop in Rome. E.g. meetings on: cryptography and cinema or literature, religions, history, governance, art.
9. Creation of a social platform-site-page to collect the outcomes of the project (publication of lessons and stories), disseminate them and share final workshop.