Here at Lai-momo we are thrilled to co-host the ALL DIGITAL Summit 2019, and we are looking forward to welcoming you in Bologna on 10 and 11 October. It will be a great opportunity to share ideas and experiences on digital skills and competences.

Lai-momo is a social cooperative, founded in 1995 by a group of academics, teachers and researchers with the aim of promoting communication between people and individuals coming from different countries and environments. With an initial focus on cultural activities, we later expanded our endeavours to the domains of digital and social communication, research, education, employment, and social inclusion. Our headquarter is located in Sasso Marconi, a small town in the surroundings of Bologna, Italy. However, the outreach of our projects goes well beyond the local area, and very often it has a European and international focus, developing and expanding national initiatives on a worldwide scale.

The cooperative is organized into sectors – social work, integration, intercultural education, communication – which work in synergy with one another and share a common approach to the topics of global education, intercultural communication, digital and media literacy. Every year we provide services to over 2,000 beneficiaries from disadvantaged groups, involving more than 40 teachers in training activities and more than 7,000 foreign citizens in orientation/information activities.

Lai-momo’s main clients are European institutions, local authorities, international organizations and private companies. Thanks to a strong multimedia-oriented approach, we have been able to work successfully and creatively to meet the challenges of a multicultural society in a growing digital environment, developing social integration initiatives and products related to activities in the fields of inclusion, education, vocational training, youth, multilingualism, culture, sustainable consumption, active citizenship and media literacy. Many of our projects carried out in the areas of social inclusion and communication have culminated in the production of a variety of websites and publications in many different languages.

Lai-momo’s mission to foster the inclusion of those who are increasingly socially and economically excluded from mainstream societies is put into practice through the implementation of a wide set of projects and initiatives. Among our most recent projects we developed Compass, a Pan-European digital upskilling platform funded by the European Commission aimed at helping young Europeans evaluate and develop their digital competences in line with the DigComp framework and with the current digitalisation of the economy and labour market requirements.