Toward a more informed choice of their future: from Tuesday 27 June the second edition of the residential internship of the MeMo (Merit and Social Mobility) project, promoted by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

The second group of 120 participants in the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna's orientation project MeMo (Merit and Social Mobility) arrives in Pisa. They are selected on the basis of merit and origin from contexts of possible cultural and social fragility. These are students attending high school in schools throughout Italy.
They will be welcomed on Tuesday 27 June starting at 3 p.m. (the full programme is attached) by two special guests: Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries, and Gaetano Terrasini, deputy director of the Fondazione Il Talento all'Opera Onlus and CEO of the Saint Gobain Italia group. During the second day, Silvia Bencivelli, scientific journalist and physician, will speak.
The students expected in Pisa will meet professors, researchers and prominent personalities to discuss together topics such as modernity, future, conscious choices. The residential programme is designed in such a way as to try to respond to four fundamental objectives that underlie the philosophy behind the Memo acronym: to wonder, to explore, to motivate, to guide.

Wonder, explore, motivate, guide

People capable of making a difference must have the opportunity to marvel, for example by discovering current issues of the contemporary world through the voice of Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries, and Gaetano Terrasini, CEO of the Saint Gobain Italia group (Tuesday 27 June); to explore, by discussing the future of robotics in the various fields of application and perhaps even on the Moon (Wednesday 28 June); to motivate, by listening to the experience of Silvia Bencivelli (Wednesday 28 June). Finally, the aim is to teach orientation through better self-knowledge, as individuals and future professionals, as doctors, also through the tools of emotional intelligence (Thursday 29 June).

The symbol of this edition of MeMo is an eraser, as a reminder that, at 17 years of age, choices can be written and rewritten, thought and rethought, changed and discussed, always putting oneself in the front row, to try to achieve even the most unthinkable challenges and goals.