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Vasikes Gnoseis gia ti Chrisi Ypologisti is a computer literacy workshop at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Kallithea, Athens, on 20 April 2026. A cursor blinks in Computer Room 2. Someone who has never right-clicked places a hand on the mouse like it might move on its own.

The workshop is part of SNFCC programming for digital inclusion, designed for middle-aged and older adults taking their first steps with personal computers — or returning to strengthen skills that never quite settled. The educational cycle runs six sessions covering the fundamentals: how a personal computer works, basic internet navigation, email setup and use, everyday digital applications, and an introduction to Microsoft Office. The curriculum is built around practical tasks — the kind of digital literacy that lets you book a medical appointment online, send a photograph to a relative abroad, or handle a utility bill without standing in a queue.

The participants in these sessions arrive with a specific kind of courage. Learning something new at fifty or sixty-five or seventy-five, in a room where you might be the slowest one, requires the willingness to look foolish that most people spend decades learning to avoid. The pace is set by whoever needs the most time. Questions that might feel obvious in any other context — "Where did it go?" "How do I go back?" — are treated as the serious inquiries they are.

The workshops take place in a dedicated computer room on the SNFCC's second floor, with individual workstations. The setting is institutional in the best sense — clean, functional, well-lit — inside a Renzo Piano-designed complex that opened in 2017. The room holds a small group, which means individual attention from the instructor is the norm, not the exception.

The progression moves from basic machine familiarity — what a desktop looks like, how to open and close programs — through internet navigation and email setup, to document creation in word processors and simple file management. The six-session arc is designed so that by the end, the computer is no longer an obstacle between you and the thing you actually want to do.

If you are comfortable with smartphones, tablets, and laptops, this workshop will move at a pace that tests your patience. But if you have been relying on a relative to send an email for you, or if you have avoided digital services because nobody ever showed you how step by step, this six-session program is built with exactly your starting point in mind.

The SNFCC is in Kallithea, roughly a twenty-minute walk from Syngrou-Fix metro, or reachable by bus with several routes stopping near the entrance. Registration is required for the workshop — sessions have limited capacity to ensure individual guidance. Admission is open. Bring nothing but yourself — workstations and materials are provided.

Six sessions to cross the distance between "I have never used a computer" and "I just emailed a photograph to my daughter" — the SNFCC workshop measures that distance in patience, not complexity.