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Pirelli Foundation’s new educational courses
for the 2026/2027 school year will soon be online.

Stay tuned!

The programme will be presented online on Monday 21 September 2026. If you would like to take part, please click here

Pirelli Foundation’s new educational courses
for the 2026/2027 school year will soon be online.

Stay tuned!

The programme will be presented online on Monday 21 September 2026. If you would like to take part, please click here

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Learning to ask questions, like Ulysses, to understand the meaning and value of Artificial...

One cannot understand anything about the world, whether ancient or contemporary, so full of uncertainties and complexities, unless one adopts the intellectual stance of someone who never tires of asking ...

The ‘Po Valley megalopolis’ offers a fine example of a unique high-tech fusion of...

Urban planners and geographers say that this is the age of megacities. They point out that 45% of the world’s population now lives in cities, and that megacities are constantly ...

Italy is facing a skills shortage that will affect the lives and livelihoods of...

Italy is a country steeped in history and with a love of stories. It is rich in ancient documents and monuments, and its most prestigious school is the classics high ...

The South is growing, but continues to lose its young people. Is the answer...

Southern Italy is growing faster than the Italian average. It is encouraging to read in the business news that it is 'driving' the national economy for the fourth year running. ...

The continued success of Italian songstress Mina serves as a shining example for managers...

A room of one's own — that's what Mina would have liked to have had when she was a young girl from Cremona in the 'Bassa' province, beginning to forge ...

The car industry appeals to the EU to stop the death of the factory

'Last night, after our shift, we went out together. It was freezing cold, and there were no lorries at Gate 23 or anyone on the street. I said to him, ...

The crisis in the social role of capitalism and the options available to Italian...

‘Capitalism is becoming less and less social. This aspect of it, of which we were proud in Europe, is fading”, says Piergaetano Marchetti, a notary and professor at Bocconi University. ...

A discussion on longevity and how to prevent ageing societies, such as Italy’s, from...

A snapshot of contemporary Italy, as revealed by a range of demographic and financial data, shows an Italy of elderly people who are, in many cases, well-off and well-educated, and ...

Europe’s isolation and the conditions for regaining momentum on security and innovation

‘Loneliness does not stem from being alone, but from not being understood’, or, in other words, ‘from the inability to communicate the things that seem important to us’. Carl Gustav ...

Photographs that tell the story of the factory from the assembly line to the...

Work, its value and the effort it requires. The projects and products, the techniques and the innovative ingenuity. Hands that consider how to improve upon what tradition and experience have ...

A degree after 40: the number of people returning to university is growing, not...

‘Exams never end’, said Eduardo De Filippo in 1973 with a tone of weary melancholy, describing a difficult existential condition involving exhausting responses to life's constant challenges, a chapter of ...

Milan’s vibrancy and the triumphs of design. Gio Ponti’s wisdom comes to the fore...

‘In construction, it's not concrete, it's not wood, it's not stone, it's not steel, it's not glass that's the most resilient element. The most resilient material in construction is art.’ ...

The benefits of the special law for Milan and the powers required by the...

A special law for Milan. The debate has resurfaced just as Parliament is discussing the special law for Rome as the capital, which would provide the city with the necessary ...

Miracle in Milan: living in a tiny 13-square-metre flat

Miracle in Milan: attempting life in a 13-square-metre micro-flat in an old council block dating from 1881. It has been renovated, but only just. It has its own bathroom, which ...

War paves the way for recession, as well as for destruction, suffering and death

War benefits few. Arms dealers and manufacturers, major financial speculators in commodities (oil, for instance), and those who raze entire cities (Gaza, for example) only to rebuild them. With a ...