Alone is nice, but in company it's much better. Institutions, universities, foundations, research centres, "there is now widespread awareness that alone you don't go anywhere". Word of Andrea Zanotti, president of the Golinelli Foundation, promoter of a wide-ranging reflection entitled "Imagining and building tomorrow for young people and for the country". It is an open meeting, in the Opificio headquarters, in via Nanni Costa in Bologna, starting at 15 pm today, to which many speakers are invited, from different backgrounds, from Diana Bracco, president of the group of the same name, to Dario Di Vico, journalist of Corriere della Sera, to Ivan Scalfarotto, undersecretary at the ministry of economic development. In the thoughts of the Golinelli Foundation are the next 50 years and everything in between, i.e. the most suitable tools for training the men and entrepreneurs of the future.
The unpredictability and complexity of the world require articulated answers, above all from the civic leadership of the country and to find these answers the Foundation commissioned by Marino Golinelli is trying to join forces. “Always having an encyclopedia in your pocket – ironizes Zanotti – doesn't make us wise, if we don't know how to process the great mass of information we have. This goes for the boys, but also for us. Because a complex world needs varied answers, simplifications are no longer enough".
There are many pieces to put together, from school, to university, from public structures, to start-up promoters, to money. “Creativity is still the main ingredient of every business – maintains Zanotti – but without money the recipe doesn't work. On this occasion there are no banks or investors, but it is a chapter of our story that we want to complete”.
The young people whom the Foundation thinks of are also those between 18 and 20 years of age, adolescents who no longer have the desire to study, but who are full of energy and initiative. You just have to find a way to give them an opportunity. “The ideal would be to go back to a sort of workshop
Renaissance, where you can learn a trade by getting your hands dirty. The strength of Italy, even in the last century, has been precisely the wisdom of its craftsmen”. And how to track down these young people? "We have started a dialogue with the high schools and this is the last, real opportunity to get in touch with these kids".
Another chapter that will be addressed in today's meeting is the thorny one of start-ups. “One of the biggest Italian problems – explains Zanotti – is the relationship between research and work and the creation of start-ups. The plot that unites school, higher education and business doesn't work, because the underlying logic is wrong. The initiatives are expected to go ahead at all costs. Instead we must accept the idea that making mistakes is educational and, as happens in the US, failure must become part of our curriculum. The mortality rate of start-ups is very high everywhere except for us, but if support is limited to a telephone and a PC, it is as easy as it is useless to keep a defunct project alive.
Initiatives can fail, but the young people who started them can recycle themselves into other start-ups of real technological innovation, which instead manage to survive on their own. Only by accepting the risk can a real business be created”. The appointment could have been behind closed doors, one of the many Opus 2065 meetings, to enrich the projects of the Golinelli Foundation. But the president loves open doors, through which unexpected ideas, questions and dialogue can enter, perhaps precisely on the part of those young people to whom so much energy is dedicated.
It therefore begins at 15 pm with greetings from Matteo Lepore, Councilor for the Economy and Promotion of the City of the Municipality of Bologna; Andrea Zanotti, President of the Golinelli Foundation; Marcella Mallen, President of Prioritalia, Mario Mantovani, Vice President of Manageritalia. At 15,45 pm the round table will start, led by Luca De Biase, Journalist and Writer and in which Sergio Bertolucci, former Director of Research at CERN, Extraordinary Professor at the University of Bologna will participate; Marco Bonometti, President and Chief Executive Officer of the OMR Group; Diana Bracco, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bracco Group and the Bracco Foundation; Dario Di Vico, Corriere della Sera journalist and writer; Enrico Giovannini, Spokesperson for the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, DivaTommei, Startupper, member of the board of Global Shapers Italia and Solenica CEO. the conclusions are entrusted to Stefano Bonaccini, President of the Emilia-Romagna Region; Dorina Bianchi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; Ivan Scalfarotto, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economic Development.
