On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, LUISS inaugurated Progetto Legalità to guest of honor President Sergio Mattarella while kicking off celebrations for the university’s 40th anniversary.
During the event, entitled Legality for Social and Economic Development in Italy, speakers laid out guidelines for the educational program created in collaboration with Authority for the Supervision of Public Contracts (ANAC), the Ministry of Justice Anti-Mafia Division and the High Council for the Judiciary. Participating in the event were Italian Senate President Pietro Grasso, Minister of Education Valeria Fedeli, LUISS President Emma Marcegaglia, LUISS Rector Paola Severino, and LUISS General Manager Giovanni Lo Storto. Following the presentation was a round table moderated by Gianni Riotta, co-director of the MACOM master’s program offered by the LUISS School of Government with ANAC President Raffaele Cantone, Vice President of the High Council for the Judiciary Giovanni Legnini, Deputy National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Russo and Rector Paola Severino.
Representatives of the Authority for Supervision of Public Contracts, the Ministry of Justice Anti-Mafia Division, the High Council for the Judiciary and LUISS University will form a research committee that, over the next three years, will create an educational program that will bridge all levels of schooling, focusing primarily on the country’s most affected areas. The project will include informational packets and educational sessions to provide students, educators and families with the necessary information to identify forms of criminal behavior and recommended response methods.
The goal of Progetto Legalità is to promote awareness of shared responsibility in young people starting with education focused on civil cohabitation, constitutional rights, and the importance of legality as an antidote to corruption and criminality.
“Our university celebrates its first forty years with an initiative to promote legality, a theme that is evermore current and urgent,” declared Rector Paola Severino. “We are honored by the presence of one of the highest representatives of the state, and that they encourage us in the diffusion of a cultural model based on legality in schools, particularly in the most affected areas. Our commitment also extends to LUISS students who will act as legality representatives to younger citizens. The entire university is ready to make a pact to involve young people and institutions in an ambitious project, convinced that there can be no social, economic or civil development without legality.”
LUISS President Emma Marcegaglia adds, “We are proud that we have created a network of collaboration with such prestigious institutions as it allows us to be part of an educational project to promote shared responsibility within the country’s future leaders to best face the fight against criminality and contribute to the country’s development.
“Investing in civic education, starting in the first years of school, means building a base for the growth of an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive society that is able to fully apply individual and collective liberties. Through awareness, exchange and a culture of sharing that our society can start rebuilding alongside our young people,” concluded LUISS General Manager Giovanni Lo Storto.
