Today, at the end of the project supported by Conad Adriatico, a discussion took place in Teramo between Pietro Grasso, former anti-mafia prosecutor and the students
The former national anti-mafia prosecutor Pietro, now president of the Scintille di Futuro Foundation, answered the young people’s questions on legality and the Constitution. In addition to Grasso, the children were also welcomed by the director of the Conad ETS Foundation, Maria Cristina Alfieri, the CEO of Conad Adriatico, Antonio Di Ferdinando, the Rector of the University of Teramo, Dino Mastrocola and the coordinator of the School of Legality and Justice of the University of Teramo, Fiammetta Ricci.
The initiative ‘Pages of legality, examples of citizenship‘ was born as a spin off of Conad ETS Foundation School Project created with Unisona, which saw the participation of over 100 thousand high school students in the two events on legality held in live streaming by Pietro Grasso.
Scintille di Futuro Foundation, chaired by Pietro Grasso, has developed an in-depth program – which started on January 31st – divided into training webinars dedicated to high school teachers throughout Italy. The objective is to provide teachers with the tools necessary to undertake a process of education on legality in the classroom.
Today, at the end of the project, in Teramo the discussion between Pietro Grasso and the students.
“This meeting in our Aula Magna – underlined the Rector of the University of Teramo, Dino Mastrocola – is part of the activities of the School of Legality and Justice of the University of Teramo, established – first in Italy – in 2018, in collaboration with the Falcone e Borsellino Association, to encourage cultural promotion, reflection and debate on the issues of legality and the fight against mafias. The School – which brings together paths and languages of education on legality – has the objective of developing proposals and building educational projects and paths on the subject of legality, to spread among students a culture of social and civil commitment such as to provide adequate knowledge and give meaning to a work to combat the mafia”.
The president of the Scintille di futuro foundation Pietro Grasso declared:
“When I decided to give life to the Scintille di Futuro Foundation, my first thought went to the schools, to the thousands of students I met over the years, to the hundreds of school managers and teachers with whom I interacted, always finding passionate interlocutors and gathering advice, requests, suggestions. Precisely on the basis of this experience, I am very happy to bring Scintille for schools, in many classes, because even from this small seed a new spring of legality can start.”
This is the comment of the CEO of Conad Adriatico Antonio Di Ferdinando:
“I want to thank President Grasso, the Scintille di futuro foundation and the Conad ETS foundation for involving us in a project that allows us to promote values of justice and civic responsibility, key aspects of our commitment to the communities in which we operate and of our effort continuously to create sustainable value for the future. This morning, we had the privilege of involving many young people from our area in a fundamental dialogue on promoting legality and strengthening social cohesion. We firmly believe in collective action and in the positive impact we can generate on the future of our communities, reaffirming our commitment alongside the new generations and creating opportunities for cultural and social growth”.
The project program will close on May 8th in Milan.
“We are proud, after the live streaming events offered to students from all over Italy, to also support this initiative which stimulates dialogue with teachers and educates children to recognize and combat all forms of mafia – added Maria Cristina Alfieri, director of Conad ETS Foundation –. We are grateful to President Grasso and to his Foundation, Scintille di futuro, for the extraordinary work of raising awareness among young people on such an important topic as education on legality”.
Conad ETS Foundation is a third sector body established by Conad, the Italian large-scale retail trade brand, to promote social and environmental sustainability initiatives supported by the five Cooperatives associated with Conad (Conad Nord Ovest, Conad Centro Nord, CIA-Mercianti Indipendenti Associati, Conad Adriatico , CAP 2000A) on the reference territories, enhancing them and developing new ones on a national scale. The purpose of the Foundation is philanthropic: the objective of every intervention is the commitment to the common good, the support of communities, the promotion of a systemic culture.
Conad ETS Foundation for Schools – “Supporting the new generations means supporting the future”. The work of the Foundation is based on this inspiring principle, which continues that of the territorial and national Conad entities, which, through initiatives such as “Together for school” and “Scrittori di Classe”, in the last ten years have donated 270 thousand prizes to Italian schools in IT equipment and teaching materials, for a total value of 37 million euros, and with the involvement of 3.5 million pupils and 170 thousand classes.
CONAD ADRIATICO is a cooperative associated with the national Conad Consortium, present in 5 Regions – Marche (Ascoli Piceno, Fermo, Macerata, Ancona city and some Municipalities of the province itself), Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia and Basilicata as well as in Albania and Kosovo – with 452 points of sale in the area and a turnover of over 2,100 million euros for 2023, +6.5% compared to the previous year and a market share in the 5 Regions in which it operates of 17.96% (source GNLC 1st half. 2023). Conad Adriatico has always paid great attention to school and the future of the new generationsin line with sustainability strategy “We support the Future” with which Conad is committed to creating shared value and supporting sustainable growth and development for the territories, the environment and the communities in which it operates. Over the years the Cooperative has established a real ‘educational alliance’ with schools and education which is reflected in our collaborations with Universities, in projects such as “Conad Class Writers” to ignite a passion for reading, up to “Together for school” which further underlines the closeness and support for students and educational institutions. From 2022 Conad Adriatico supports the School Project of the Conad ETS Foundation, a training program that offers Italian students various meetings dedicated to topics of great relevance and interest for the new generations. Debates, testimonies, experiences, films and images, to arouse in children the desire to understand the present and become agents of change.
Pietro Grasso entered the judiciary in 1969; he was judge in the Cosa Nostra maxi-trial and chief prosecutor of Palermo; from October 2005 to January 2013 he was the national anti-mafia prosecutor. Subsequently, he held the position of President of the Senate and Senator and, today, he is president of the Scintille di Futuro ETS Foundation, created to contribute to the development of active and aware citizenship and the ethics of responsibility (www.scintilledifuturo.it). He has published numerous books including, with Feltrinelli: Stories of blood, friends and ghosts. Memories of the Mafia (2017), Paolo Borsellino speaks to the kids (2020), My friend Giovanni (2022, written with Alessio Pasquini).
