Collaborate via video-conference

Silvia Pertici, MSW - Comitato Maria Letizia Verga, since 1980 coordinator of the psycosocial équipe c/o San Gerardo Hospital - Monza, since January 2010 counsellor for special projects. 

One of the main aims of the Hospital School is to help children in hospital to keep in touch with their own local schools  as well as with everyday life.

The Monza hospital school is part of a group of 65 Italian hospitals included in  HSH@Network Project provided by the State Ministry of Education.  The HSH-Monza project allows  children hospitalized in Monza  Pediatric Haematology Unit to collaborate online with some classes of the local Elisa Sala Junior High School  in order to develop multidisciplinary projects by videoconference.

Since 2001/2002,  Junior High School students taking part to the project have been  requested to fill in a form to evaluate teaching objectives and the emotional impact of the experience.

The aim of our  contribution is to present the evaluation method and the results of a multiyear monitoring and to reflect on the deep meaning of the collaboration between the  local territory and the hospital.