3 ‘green start-ups’ made in LIFTT explain sustainable entrepreneurship to young people‘Educating for sustainability and entrepreneurship’ was one of the central themes of the three-day ‘Green Week’ initiative organised by Turin’s IC Adelaide Cairoli in which LIFTT took part on 1 June.
An appointment organised at the conclusion of the civic education project #ALMIOMONDOCITENGO, conceived by the Department of Mathematics Science and Technology of IC A. Cairoli. The project aims to bring students aged 11-13 years old closer to the 2030 Agenda, the document that proposes a model of sustainable development in environmental, economic and social terms. The objective is to encourage a serene and conscious reflection on much debated topics, about which young people hear even alarmist tones, but of which they have a mostly emotional and distorted knowledge.
The speakers were three ‘green’ start-ups from our portfolio, all actively engaged in the climate change front: Aquaseek, the project that has patented a system for extracting water from the air; Waterview, the company that has developed a solution for the real-time analysis of weather conditions from webcam and camera images; and newcleo, the fourth-generation nuclear start-up.
Three exceptional ‘teachers’ for a topic, that of entrepreneurship education, which is of central importance in today’s didactic debate: “Our institute,” commented Headmistress Monica Rosso, “has been working for years to raise the awareness of the new generations on issues related to the environment and sustainable development. There are numerous projects that our school has joined or promoted to integrate the teaching activities with initiatives that, designed specifically for each age group, can arouse curiosity and interest in the environment and nature, without which it is not possible to develop respect. The school gardens in boxes placed in the school courtyards, Butterflies in ToUr and the biodiversity of pollinators, “Green Walls”, and recycling education are just some of these projects with which we aim to educate our pupils to respect the environment and personal initiative”.
“In Norway and Switzerland, for example, entrepreneurship has been considered a full-fledged school subject for over ten years. This has also led to positive feedback on the country’s economic and social development, as well as to the birth of more start-ups (about 20% more) than in Italy and other European countries,’ says LIFTT CEO Giovanni Tesoriere. We meet hundreds of start-ups every year, and this is why we realise that today, traditional school subjects need to be flanked by the teaching of know-how and business skills, in order to prepare young people for the future that awaits them and to aspire to a more prosperous future for our country’s economy’.
