The City Council organizes a free workshop to provide digital skills to children and adolescents between 9 and 17 years old.

The registration period will remain open until September 23. It will be held at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center in the afternoon.

Estepona City Council informs that the registration period is open for the Digital Camp to be held between October 7 and November 26 with the aim of providing digital skills to children and adolescents between 9 and 17 years.

The workshops, free of charge and with a total of 30 teaching hours, will be held in the computer room of the Padre Manuel Cultural Center and will include contents and activities adapted to each age group. This action will be carried out thanks to the collaboration agreement between the Consistory and the CiberVolunteers Foundation.

The basic course for children from 9 to 13 years old will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 5 to 7 p.m., and the advanced course for young people from 14 to 17 years old will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the same schedule.

In addition to learning how to search for valuable information on the Internet, the younger students will learn the tools to create digital content, secure passwords and protect personal data. They will also receive guidelines to verify information that is shared and detect fake news. For their part, students between 12 and 13 years of age will receive advice on how to control their time in front of screens, and will learn how to take care of their privacy and the rules of behavior on social networks, as well as how to filter and search for information more effectively, and how to detect and prevent cyberbullying.

Participants in the advanced course will be able to acquire healthy habits of disconnection and digital wellbeing, conscious and responsible use of the Internet and social networks, recommendations on data protection, digital identity and online reputation, as well as digital skills for job search.

Those interested may register at the municipal delegation of Youth, through the mail animacion@estepona.es. Places are limited as the capacity is reduced to a maximum of 15 participants per course.