The final evening dedicated to the winning students of the “Live and study abroad for a year with Intercultura” call for entries for the 2024-25 school year was held in Bergamo. It was a moment of celebration, marking the end of the training that Intercultura volunteers organize for the departing students, and the beginning of the great adventure that is the experience abroad.
Thanks to the collaboration with Fondazione Pesenti Ets, the Intercultura Foundation has reserved this year 2 scholarships for an academic year in Europe for two outstanding students residing in and enrolled at high schools in the province of Bergamo: Andrea Sacco, who will travel to Sweden for a year-long program, and Erica Ragaini, who will go to Iceland.
Scholarships funded by the Fondazione Pesenti for the 2024/25 school year were awarded to: Andrea Sacco, who will travel to Sweden for a one-year program, and Erica Ragaini, who will travel to Iceland.
Fondazione Pesenti’s collaboration with Intercultura-born during the 2009/2010 school year-in more than a decade has grown to involve dozens of excellent students, who have had the opportunity to experience firsthand an entire school year in profoundly different contexts from an educational, social and cultural perspective.
This commitment is in addition to the scholarships supported by Fondazione Pesenti for students at technical and vocational schools in Lombardy, Piedmont and Campania as part of the “A Scuola in Europa” project with Fondazione Agnelli, Fondazione Pesenti Ets and UniCredit Foundation.
The students
Sacco Andrea
Program: annual in Sweden
School: “Quarenghi” School Institute – Bergamo
Andrea lives in Osio Sotto (BG). He attends the third year of a technical institute, focusing on “construction, environment and territory,” where he gets excellent grades. Andrea hopes that the program abroad will be an experience she will remember for the rest of her life. She looks forward to living in a different country, facing the difficulties she will encounter, challenging herself, growing and opening up even more to others.
Ragaini Erica
Program: annual in Iceland
School: “Sarpi” School Institute – Bergamo
Erica lives in Bergamo, Italy. Erica is in her third year of classical high school, where she gets excellent grades. She is looking forward to a unique experience from the Interculture program, where she will be able to discover a new culture and a way of thinking different from her own. She is aware that it will not always be easy, but she is ready and looking forward to the trip.
