An event, the Milanese one, which crowns the financial economic literacy work carried out in upper secondary school classes as part of the “Young Factor” project, the Italian project that has conquered leadership in the field of economic and financial literacy for young people, and which is supported by Intesa San Paolo, Unicredit and Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
The hearing was also an opportunity to update the Head of State on the enlargement of the social structure of the newspapers that support the “Il Quotidiano in Classe” project with the entry of the GEDI Group into the Organization and of the La Repubblica newspapers. , La Stampa, Il Secolo XIX, Corriere delle Alpi, Gazzetta di Mantova, Messaggero Veneto, La Provincia Pavese and the Tribuna di Treviso, which are added to the historical newspapers, which have been participating for years in the Observatory’s media literacy project: Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, The Nation, Il Giorno, Il Resto del Carlino, Il Messaggero, Il Gazzettino, l’Adige, Gazzetta di Parma, The Arena, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Bresciaoggi, The Province of Cremona, Gazzetta del Sud, The Journal of Sicily.
The President of the Observatory highlighted to the Head of State how having reached 23 different newspapers engaged in the “Il Quotidiano in Classe” project represents the historical record of publishing groups never involved in the same media literacy project before and above all signs the growth of that pluralism of opinions, through which young people can train, in the classroom, under the guidance of their teachers, to strengthen their critical conscience, learning to read reality from different possible points of view, from different angles.
The President of the Republic congratulated the President Andrea Ceccherini and his Organization for the results achieved with the media literacy projects “Il Quotidiano in Classe” and economic and financial literacy “Young Factor”, which defined two valuable projects for the country, recognizing the high civil and social value of these activities to him and to the organization in favor of the growth of the younger generations.
The director of Corriere della Sera Luciano Fontana, the director of La Repubblica Maurizio Molinari, the Director of Il Sole 24 Ore Fabio Tamburini and the Director of Institutional Affairs and External Relations Intesa San Paolo Stefano Lucchini also intervened during the hearing.