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Connect.
Explore.
Give Back.

RootUp is the app that connects students, associations and small local organizations to create meaningful summer experiences with educational, social and cultural value.

Explore

Find your summer experience in Milan.

Choose a local activity, help your city, collect skills and memories.

Museum support
Urban storytelling
Local events
Digital maps
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The idea

A city becomes a learning community.

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Why RootUp

RootUp transforms summer in the city into a meaningful and shared time. Many students stay in Milan without truly valuable opportunities, while associations, neighbourhood museums and small cultural spaces need energy, presence and digital skills.

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How it works

Students choose short, accessible and certified experiences: support for events, reception activities, digital storytelling, micro-volunteering, urban itineraries and cultural promotion.

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Experiences

RootUp experiences help students explore Milan, meet people, develop soft skills and give something back to the community through sustainable mobility and active citizenship.

How it works

Three simple steps.

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Choose

Students select a short local experience based on interests, time and skills.

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Join

They meet associations, museums or local partners and contribute to a real activity.

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Grow

They receive feedback, build soft skills and create social value for the city.

Experiences

Micro-actions, real impact.

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Museum support

Helping small cultural spaces welcome visitors and promote local heritage.

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Urban storytelling

Creating stories, posts and short narratives about hidden places in Milan.

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Local events

Supporting associations and local initiatives with organization and communication.

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Sustainable itineraries

Exploring the city through walking routes, public transport and slow mobility.

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Digital maps

Building accessible maps and QR-based guides for students and visitors.

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Community volunteering

Short experiences where time, skills and relationships become social value.

Impact

More than an app. A civic bridge.

RootUp proposes a scalable model: every experience creates value for the student, the partner and the city. The project connects orientation, active citizenship, sustainable tourism and social innovation.

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Student growth

Orientation, soft skills, responsibility and first contact with real contexts.

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Local value

Concrete support for urban museums, associations, small enterprises and cultural spaces.

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Sustainable city

Accessible itineraries, slow mobility and discovery of neighbourhoods beyond traditional tourism.

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Social impact

An exchange model where time, skills and relationships become civic capital.

Partners

A network rooted in Milan.

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Schools
Associations
Museums
Local shops
Municipality
Rete IRIS
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Start with your city. Grow with your community.

Scan the QR code, discover opportunities near you and turn your summer into a meaningful experience.

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