Opening of the 162nd Academic Year
The opening ceremony of the 162nd Academic Year of the Politecnico di Milano has taken place.
The Rector, Donatella Sciuto, presented the results achieved during the last year. Then, in her speech, she focused on the theme of sport, its formative and unifying role, as well as on the different meanings in which it is declined at Politecnico di Milano: research, infrastructures, territory, education and inclusion.
Moments from the Opening
Graziano Dragoni, Emilio Faroldi, Donatella Sciuto, Isabella Nova, Veronica Marrocu
Polifonia students
The audience
Giuseppe Sala
Attilio Fontana
Andrea Abodi
Veronica Marrocu
Donatella Sciuto
Alberto Amodeo, Giulia Ghiretti, Federico Andreoli, Donatella Sciuto
Simone Barlaam
Filippo Ganna and Riccardo Magrin
Sport teaches you to manage success and face failure, not to give up and to find new, even stronger motivations in defeats. An important topic for a generation that, in recent years, has shown clear signs of fragility.
Donatella Sciuto, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano
In addition to Rector Donatella Sciuto, the opening ceremony of the 162nd Academic Year was also attended by Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milano, Attilio Fontana, President of the Lombardy Region, Andrea Abodi, Minister for Sport and Youth, Alberto Amodeo, student at Politecnico di Milano and paralympic athlete, Federico Andreoli, student at Politecnico di Milano and paralympic athlete, Giulia Ghiretti, alumna of Politecnico di Milano and paralympic athlete, Veronica Marrocu, President of the Student Board at Politecnico di Milano, Filippo Ganna, cyclist and olympic athlete, track cycling world champion and Riccardo Magrini, former cyclist and commentator at Eurosport Italia.
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