Programma
10.00 a.m.
Plenary Session
Representatives of international organisations and personalities of the world of culture, economics and political institutions, in plenary session, address the theme of poverty.
Presenter Maria Concetta Mattei
Alongside the Plenary Session, from 11.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., the RAI Italian Television Service will simultaneously broadcast a special feature programme on the Conference live on Channel 2 produced by Stefano Lamorgese and Francesca Nocerino. The television coverage will be presented by Francesca Nocerino under the direction of Adolfo Conti.
Opening addresses
Alberto Ravaioli
Mayor of Rimini
Stefano Vitali
President, Rimini Province
Lorenzo Cagnoni
President, Executive Committee, Pio Manzù Centre
Stefano Lucchini
Senior Executive Vice President for Public Affairs and Communication, eni
Renzo Ticchi
Member of the Board of Directors, Rimini Savings Bank Foundation
Romeo Morri
Secretary of State for Education and Culture, Republic of San Marino
Representative of the Italian Government
Keynote speeches
Guests of Honour
Young people and women as peace activists
Suzanne Mubarak
First Lady of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Founder and President of The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement
Breaking down the barriers of socio-economic disadvantage
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández
First Lady of the Dominican Republic
Roads to cooperation in Europe
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Economics as a factor of detente and dialogue
Lubna Al Qasimi
Minister of Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates
The soft power of India
Shashi Tharoor
Minister of State for External Affairs of the Republic of India and Member of the Indian Parliament
Supporting young people’s earnings and the right to education: the French way
Martin Hirsch
(France) High Commissioner for Youth and for Active Inclusion Against Poverty
Remarkable humanity: embracing adversity as opportunity
Aimee Mullins
(USA) Athlete, fashion model, and actor
Doing business in Turkey: a young economy for young companies
Aldo L. Kaslowski
(Turkey) Chairman of TUSIAD International, the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association and President of the Confederation of Italian Entrepreneurs Worldwide (CIIM) EurAsiaMed
Strategies for educational reform in the globalization era
Richard Descoings
(France) Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) and a senior member of the Conseil d’Etat
Managing Generation Y
Alessandro Lanza
(Italy) Chief Executive Officer, eni corporate university
Medal Awards
In the course of the Plenary Session representatives of the Italian Government and the Pio Manzù Centre will present the medals of the Italian State and the Pio Manzù Centre which have been awarded by the Centre’s International Scientific Committee to the following international personalities who have distinguished themselves in the field of international solidarity and for their contribution to social progress:
Suzanne Mubarak – Margarita Cedeño de Fernandez – Edith Bongo Ondimba (the medal awarded to her memory will be received by her relatives) – Lubna Al Qasimi – Manuel Castells – Richard Descoings – Todd Gitlin – Aldo Kaslowski – Aimee Mullins – Maria Nowak – Shashi Tharoor –
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul – Giovanni Allevi – Antonio Campo Dall’Orto – Emerson Gattafoni – Ezio Giorgetti (the medal awarded to his memory will be received by his daughters Giovanna and Teresa) – Giovanni Minoli – Mario Pompeo Pivi – Renzo Rosso
3.30 p.m.
Workshop 5
Don’t worry, be happy! Young, self-motivated, determined optimists, in search of sense: those who want to get things done
Investment in the future today is only possible on a very long-term basis and involves taking a few risks. Several analytical indices indicate that the younger generations are well aware of these existential risks, but in the majority of cases, despite prevailing feelings of pessimism due to the economic situation and the competitive social ethos, a new determination is emerging among them to make sense of their own lives and set themselves ambitious goals. Obliged, as they often are, to accept terms of temporary employment on a “project by project” basis, they refuse to buckle under: thirty-year mortgages to buy one’s first home, study periods abroad, lifelong professional training, and entrepreneurial creativity bear witness to their courage, ambition and positive expectations.
The galaxy of the younger nomadic generations are busy structuring their lives in search of new social models. In opposition to the current orgy of individualism they are intent on exploring new forms of participation, commitment and the search for sense. One Italian in ten engages in voluntary service: in all, some 600,000 people who continually devote part of their time to entirely unremunerated solidarity causes (another three million do so occasionally), assisting two and a half million people. Of these volunteers, 50% are young people under thirty years of age. They belong to, and identify with thirteen thousand organisations, and the number is rising year by year; in this context they engage in activity equivalent to that of almost 70,000 workers, despite the fact that the State devotes little attention to their efforts.
Young people are active on the business front, generating wealth and jobs. In Europe and world-wide there are countless thousands of young entrepreneurs renewing family traditions or pro-actively promoting the initiatives and innovations of the future. But, in Italy, 71 percent of young people aged from 23 to 29 are still living with their families, with the risk of lapsing into permanent adolescence.
In this maze of contradictions, young people are in search of a coherent, organic moral concept; as Giuseppe Mazzini would say, they are in search of a ray of sunshine capable of illuminating the sense of life and death, of the passage of time and life that goes on, in an infinite universe of existential, ethical, political and civil values.
Thinking about the many thousands of young people who are subjugated, sometimes captivated, and more often than not oppressed and dominated by a cold school of individualism and empty consumerism, the Pio Manzù Centre proposes an analytical reappraisal of the reasons for a new moral and material emancipation, taking as its starting point the tangible examples of those who, in their youthful condition, refuse to buckle under.
Chairperson
Talking to young people: an ethical and political challenge
Martin Hirsch
(France) High Commissioner for Active Inclusion Against Poverty and High Commissioner for Youth in the French Administration. He headed the Central Union of Emmaus Communities from 1995 to 2002, and then chaired Emmaus France until he joined the government.
Panel
Solidarity and integration: a European challenge
Paolo Di Caro
(Italy) Director General of the National Youth Agency set up by the Italian Parliament in accordance with the European programme “Youth in Action 2007-2013”. This Agency aims to promote an active civil sense in the young, solidarity, understanding and cultural integration among the young people of the countries of Europe.
Doing business on the Internet
Gianluca Dettori
(Italy) Manager and entrepreneur in the Internet & high tech industry, he is the founder and CEO of DPixel, that operates in the field of interactive digital channels and invests in technology and media startups. His entrepreneurial career started in 1999 when he founded Vitaminic, Europe’s leading digital provider of music over the internet and now one of the largest aggregators and distributors of multimedia content companies in the world. Dettori is also a member of the First Generation Network.
Can solidarity coexist with business and profit?
Monica Di Sisto
(Italy) Journalist with many years of experience in the non-profit sector, she has been spokesperson for the Social Affairs Commission in the Italian Parliament. She coordinates and is Vice President of the “Fairwatch” project, a group of professionals and experts available as consultants to those firms and organisations involved in the promotion of fair trade and social development.
Italy-Silicon Valley: a bridge to innovation
Marco Marinucci
(Italy) An Italian executive at Google, responsible for Google’s content acquisition activities in several countries, he is also the founder and executive director for MindtheBridge.org, the non-profit organization that connects the most innovative Italian startups with Silicon Valley’s partners and investors. His professional experience ranges from a VoIP start up, to artificial intelligence research, and management of an international Ecommerce business.
Profit, nonprofit, low profit
Marco Morganti
(Italy) Founder and Managing Director of Banca Prossima – Intesa Sanpaolo Group – the first European bank entirely committed to the economy of the common good
9.00 p.m.
Special Evening Event
Brainparty:
talented young people tell their stories
Personal accounts of young people: the challenges they face and the options open to them for the future.
Presented by Myrta Merlino
Journalist, and producer of numerous television programmes (Italia Maastricht, Energia, Mister Euro, La storia siamo noi, Economix). She presents the TV programme Effetto Domino, broadcast on La7. She has contributed to Il Mattino and Il Messaggero, reporting on economic policy issues, and is the author of two essays on economics published by Sperling & Kupfer, La moneta and Gli affari nostri.
Participants:
Magdalena Bieniak, University of Silesia and University of Padua
Francesca Graziani, Bocconi University
Valbona Karapici, University of Tirana
Federica Lamonica, University of Siena
Francesco Luccisano, University of Trieste
Maria Nicoletta Malini, Bocconi University
Romina Mancinelli, University of Aquila
Giovanni Marchegiani, University of Verona
Fabiana Morroni, University of Bologna
Alfonso Pezzi, University of Bologna
Ida Ros, University of Padua
Alessandro Santini, University of Bologna
The evening event is organised with the invaluable contribution of the Rimini Scientific and Didactic Branch of the University of Bologna