TIM continues its commitment to young people with its "TIM Young College" offer dedicated to students, in order to give momentum to new learning methods and digital schools.
This excellent learning tool includes a Samsung GALAXY Tab A 9.7" LTE tablet with 4G connectivity and 5 GB of data traffic. The digital learning content is specifically for children between the ages of 14 and 18 and includes: a 30-month language course by De Agostini (English, French, Spanish or German); an Italian monolingual dictionary by Hoepli; an Italian/English bilingual dictionary by Hoepli; twenty-one classic Italian novels (such as I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga, La Coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo, La Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri, I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni and I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi), and three e-books by Hoepli; a 50-euro gift certificate for the purchase of digital schoolbooks from thewebsite www.scuolabook.it (*); access to the Oilproject platform (*); a 30-month Redooc (*) mathematics course.
The tablet is protected by the "TIM Protect" device, which offers Parental Control against browsing to undesired websites, as well as antivirus software and anti-theft software to locate lost or stolen tablets.
TIM Young College also has a new App and new graphics designed specifically for school. All clients will receive online personal codes to activate and use the content included in the offer. The TIM Young College App is downloadable for free from the Play Store. The "TIM Young College" package is available at all TIM stores at 15 euros per month for 30 months with no activation costs.
“With TIM Young College, we wish to actively contribute to the "good school" plan and significantly support the digital agenda – says Daniela Biscarini, Head of Multimedia Entertainment of Telecom Italia - by offering user-friendly learning tools to students and their families for spreading knowledge. Once again, technology proves to be an effective means to bring culture to people and to help young people with their education".
(*) Scuolabook.it offers digital learning solutions with the objective of supporting the digitisation of schools. It offers a vast catalogue of digital Italian schoolbooks and manuals with more than 13,000 titles for all the major school subjects. Books can be read from computers or tablets or directly online from the Scuolabook portal. Digital books from the Scuolabook website are fully integrated with the Scuolabook Network, a digital learning social platform dedicated to students and teachers.
(*) OilProject is a free learning platform for students that offers access to 5,400 videos, texts and exercises - from Dante to derivatives, from Napoleon to Chemistry - and is used by more than one million people every month. Oilproject is also a social website that has a large community for discussion, assistance and online studying.
(*) Redooc.com is the largest and most innovative mathematics-learning platform in Italy with content ranging from middle school to university. It offers learning without boredom thanks to hundreds of video lessons, notes and thousands of interactive online exercises with explanations, as well as a chance to accumulate points.
Roma, 15 june 2015
