MeMo project, merit and social mobility, at Scuola Sant'Anna: the second residential course begins with two special guests: Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries and Gaetano Terrasini, CEO of Saint Gobain
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. After the institutional greetings of Sabina Nuti, Rector of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, two special guests opened the proceedings in attendance: 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.The programme of the second MeMo residential course takes place between Tuesday 27 and Thursday 29 June. Students will meet lecturers, researchers and prominent personalities to discuss together topics such as modernity, the future, conscious choices.
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.
The statements
"The Memo project is a way for people to become the creators of their own future," said Rector Sabina Nuti, who opened the initiative by bringing institutional greetings from the Scuola Sant'Anna.
"The search for talent and merit beyond the context of origin is fundamental for us," said Gaetano Terrasini, CEO of Saint Gobain Italia and vice-president of the Fondazione Il Talento all'Opera Onlus. "There are many values that we share with the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, and the MeMo project goes in the direction of this fruitful collaboration".
"In a historical phase in which the average age has risen, it becomes even more important to promote paths of university excellence because otherwise it will not be possible to maintain high standards of scientific innovation," explains Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries.
