October 22, 2018 – Once again this year, Fondazione Pesenti supported BergamoScienza , the scientific outreach festival that explored the wonders of science over 16 days (from October 6 to 21, 2018) with a multidisciplinary perspective: from medicine to physics, artificial intelligence to biology, technology to chemistry, mathematics to astrophysics, with interesting contributions also from the world of arts and entertainment.
The festival’s main goal is to make science accessible to everyone, especially young people and schools, so they can improve and enhance their technical-scientific education and broaden their interests.
Also on the schedule was the Fondazione Pesenti Conference titled “School and Work: What Should Young People Ask Of Us?” featuring Vittorio Colao and Dario Di Vico.
Over the past 10 years, Vittorio Colao has traveled more than 1,250,000 miles on British Airways and 50,000 kilometers by bicycle, leading Vodafone’s transformation from a telecommunications company into a group spanning media and communications, and developing a strong belief in the absolute necessity of a growing connection with schools and universities, which is possible for companies of any size. “The pace is accelerating, but there are also changes in direction. We are in a constantly evolving context of technological, social, and political change. It is an interesting time that requires less specialization and more humanity.” Where does Italy stand in this process? What should young people demand from corporate and institutional leadership? These questions will kick off the interview by Dario Di Vico with Vittorio Colao, marking the first event in Bergamo within the new collaboration between Fondazione Pesenti and Fondazione Corriere della Sera.
BergamoScienza
The BergamoScienza Festival, now in its 16th edition, concluded with 133,689 attendees across 176 events (49 conferences; 110 exhibitions and workshops; 17 performances). It is a scientific outreach event founded in 2003 from the insight and will of a group of friends—the Founding Members—which each year involves the city and province of Bergamo in a rich program of initiatives exploring scientific and technological topics from various fields.
Three key features stand out:
- The approach to addressing and comparing various topics, making them accessible even to a non-specialist audience;
- the total free admission to all events;
- The extraordinary participation of schools, teachers, and especially students, in organizing numerous scientific exhibits.
For the first two weeks of October, the Bergamo area and the city in particular become the stage for an event with international resonance, offering conferences, exhibitions, workshops, performances, and much more: a continuous whirlwind of constructive contamination that helps strengthen the relationship between scientific culture and informed citizenship.
In its first fifteen editions, BergamoScienza had the extraordinary opportunity to host 24 Nobel Prize winners – including, Rita Levi Montalcini, John Nash, James D. Watson – and 1,326 researchers and experts—such as Oliver Sacks, Paolo Nespoli, Margherita Hack, Massimo Banzi, and many others—from various scientific fields including chemistry, physics, medicine, mathematics, engineering, astronomy, neuroscience, and more.
The festival is a moment for sharing great discoveries, meetings, and emotions that in fourteen years have attracted a public well over 1,300,000 attendees.
In 2005, the year the Association was founded, important organizations joined the project as Founding Members: the University of Bergamo, the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture of Bergamo, Confindustria Bergamo, and UBI Banca.
The festival is also supported by entities, foundations, and private companies from across the region, and this participation from the business world ensures all events remain completely free.
Programma 2018 | Convegno Fondazione Fondazione Pesenti e BergamoScienza | Comunicato stampa Rassegna stampa: L'Eco di Bergamo
Video
https://www.facebook.com/bergamoscienza/videos/272080650091068/