In the presence of the general console Giuseppe Pastorelli in the conference room of the Italian Consulate in New York, on November 10, 2026 the award ceremony of the third edition of the projectDivenirerò, “renamed “in the World” in its international version, and which aims to promote scientific culture, STEM disciplines and gender equality”, says Adriana Apollonio, Head of DG V of the Directorate-General for Italians to the Exterior and Formation.
The initiative was promoted by the Fondazione Bracco in collaboration with DGIT, and as Gaela Bernini, General Secretary of the Foundation, says, “create opportunities for fair access to science, because there is no real work for men and women, there are only talents that should be valued.”.
To welcome the school children there is also the director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Claudio Pagliara. “This award takes place at a time when this is a central topic for the Institute, that is the culture of innovation of science, which we have tried to promote and to which we invited the Italian School to participate,” the director tells us.
The Bracco Foundation, born in 2010, “is involved in spreading the expressions of art, culture and science to improve the quality of life and increase social cohesion”, explains Bernini. It is divided into four disciplines, the main of which is education.
The Mind the STEM gap project, dedicated to creating an ecosystem in which the world of training approaches the productive world, creating opportunities for an exchange of orientation, “but also access to science, especially in the case of gender stereotypes”.
There are 5 million invested, and 254 students who each year receive awards from the foundation. Bernini adds that many of their programs “give opportunities to children who have a family situation that does not allow to support studies”.
On the podium for the first prize, due to the originality of the chosen language, the Italian school Guglielmo Marconi in New York, with a project in the form of podcast called “Fili”. “By passing from Cartesio, to Verne, to Zolà, we have understood how strictly science connects to art, literature and philosophy, precisely for this reason we called this thread podcast”, explains one of the three pupils climbed on stage to talk about their experience.
“It has made us aware that in science one can never rely on certainty but mainly on doubt,” he adds.
The second prize was won by the Italian State School Leonardo da Vinci in Paris with a video entitled “Voilà Paris”, which combines the experiences of three scientists from different nationalities on the Parisian soil. On stage to receive the award, representing 3 classes, Professor Zaira Capoluongo. The school is a winner for the second consecutive year.
The third place is the La Plata Parisian School (Argentina), with a video that reconstructs the importance of scientific disciplines through the history of several Argentine scientists, an award-winning work for the breadth of content and exhibition clarity that connects different topics.
In an exceptional way, a fourth prize is awarded to the Ismail Qemali Institute in Tirana (Albania). “We received extraordinary work,” says Gaela Bernini, who adds that the work of the institute deserved the prize “for the sensitivity and depth of the deepening capable of combining scientific reflection and historical progress”.
Alberto Spinazzi, Medical Director of the Bracco Foundation is present at the award ceremony. Spinazzi tells about how when he was a kid he felt his vocation was to be a doctor, when that of other children was to be a mechanic or a veterinarian. No wonder when, at the question “who wants to work in the lab? » the room remains still.
But what you work for is a tomorrow when you can overcome this stereotype. «Magari in the future we can have some children whose dream as a child is to work in the pharmaceutical industry, which does not always mean to be on microscopes and test tubes, we work with people».
The third edition of this project, called “visionary” by the Consul Pastorelli, is being completed because “from voice and perspective to many young people, invests a lot on research and invests a lot on women. We are here to promote Italy, but Italy can only promote it if Italy responds”. Bernini leaves us with a fundamental question: what can the new professions and the future of science be?
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