MeMo Project, merit and social mobility, at Sant'Anna School in Pisa: the second residential course kicks off among lectures, workshop experiences and exchange moments. Guests include Fabrizio Bartelloni, honorary magistrate, lawyer and writer

Kicking off is the June residential edition of the MeMo, merit and social mobility project of the Sant'Anna School of Pisa, which selected students enrolled in the fourth year of high schools throughout Italy on the basis of merit and origin from backgrounds of potential cultural and social fragility. The goal of MeMo, a completely free guidance program created in 2013, financed through PNRR resources and supported by the Fondazione Il Talento all'Opera Onlus and the Fondazione Bernardo Villa Gicaber Onlus, is to support students of merit from fragile socio-economic backgrounds (first generation students) toward a more informed university choice.

An immersive experience inside the university campus

The three-day residential program has been designed so that we experience participatory lectures, workshop experiences, and moments of open exchange with renowned professors and personalities, with the dual aim of sharing topical issues, but also of telling their own stories in their own paths of study and work. An important piece in achieving greater awareness of paths and choices also lies in the possibility of seeing the university reality up close, living the college and meeting researchers, students and students even in convivial moments. The approach is that of the so-called "peer to peer education" and, for this reason, the program sees the participation of many young teachers, researchers but also protagonists from the world of social media able to intercept needs and communication channels suitable for young people, so as to make MeMo's message more effective.

Wonder, explore, motivate, orient to imagine the future

Among the guests at the second residential course of the 2024 edition of the MeMo project Fabrizio Bartelloni, honorary magistrate, lawyer and writer, with the talk "That's where all the difference came from: Walking the paths less traveled." The speech will close the first day of the initiative and will be broadcast live on the School's YouTube channel and on QN.

In the afternoon of June 26, the group of participants will move to the Institute of Biorobotics, where they will follow along with professors, researchers and 5 experiential workshops dedicated to some research projects.

Closing the program is a day dedicated to university orientation, in collaboration with CISIA and the students of Scuola Sant'Anna.