Over a thousand participants: this is the outcome of the fifth stage of Orientamenti Summer at the Magazzini del Cotone in Genoa. A Maestrale hall packed with parents and young students for the event, created by the Liguria Region, to support them in choosing their post-middle school education path. The event provided a series of useful information, from personal aptitudes to a focus on the school offering and the world of work, to arrive at an informed decision.
In total, in the nine stages planned throughout Liguria, the limit of 2000 registrations for the initiative has been exceeded, to date there are 2300. As for the city of Genoa, thanks to the sold out yesterday, Monday 1 July, a second appointment will be proposed on 15 July, same location and time, in order to guarantee the possibility to those who were unable to participate for numerical reasons to be able to do so.
“Liguria is a land of training opportunities, development and career growth – comments the interim president of the Liguria Region Alessandro Piana – The success of this new stage of Orientamenti Summer demonstrates it: more and more, our young people acquire concrete tools to evaluate their professional aspirations and the available training offers. Orientamenti is an excellence of the Liguria Region that consciously accompanies students and families in the transition between school, university and the world of work, effectively providing a service to the entire community”.
The meeting and the Ligurian tour were organized by the regional councilor for Training and Orientation Marco Scajola who states: “A huge success with a room filled to the brim with over a thousand people, including kids and parents. These numbers and the attention shown by the participants, in all the stages that have taken place to date, best testify to the quality of the proposed event. We have provided, free of charge, a general overview of the higher education offerings in the province of Genoa in a streamlined and effective way. We are symbolically crossing our entire region, including the hinterland, with the aim of being of help to as many people as possible”.
“If after Covid the goal of Orientamenti Summer was to give back moments of sociality to our young people, with a particular focus on the very young, and therefore a slightly different target than that of the Orientamenti Festival, in the 2024 edition we return to speak precisely to those middle and high school students who are called to choose their future, thus managing to respond to their needs even in the summer period and to deseasonalize the November festival, together with the countless activities that Orientamenti carries out during the school year – says the Liguria Region Councilor for School Simona Ferro -. In this way we orient the kids 365 days a year and above all we do it throughout the Ligurian territory, since these 10 stages will closely concern many places in the hinterland”.
“Orientamenti has become a consolidated point of reference for young people and their families to make choices about their future, educational and otherwise, also looking for their own skills – underlines the Councilor for Youth Policies of the Municipality of Genoa Francesa Corso -. The Municipality of Genoa, which is part of the Orientamenti Promotion Committee, confirms its support for the initiative through the Informagiovani, the offices of our Youth Policies, giving its contribution in the dissemination and realization of interesting webinars aimed at young people, very young people and parents. In this summer edition, in the stage dedicated to Genoa, we wanted to bring to the attention of the young people the contest of Genova Global Goals Award, now in its third edition, aimed specifically at schools and start-up companies on the themes of sustainability and the UN Agenda 2030, which will be held next autumn to raise awareness among the new generations on the environment and the challenges of the future”.
Students and parents will be able to find useful material on the reference site to deepen what was discussed during the meeting. At the same address it is possible to book for the next stages of Orientamenti Summer starting from the one in Busalla scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday 2 July, at 6 pm, inside the town hall.
On the sidelines of the regional initiative, the University of Genoa held its own orientation workshop for choosing a university education, involving approximately 200 high school students. This is the complete list of upcoming Orientamenti Summer events: July 2 in Busalla, July 4 in Sestri Levante, July 8 in La Spezia, July 11 in Calizzano, July 15 in Genoa.
