MESSINA (ITALPRESS) – The inauguration of the academic year took place today in the Magna Hall of the University of Messina, in the presence of the director Giovanna Spatari and the guest of honor, the Governor of the Bank of Italy Fabio Panetta. Among the present, a representation of the Iranian student community, greeted with a great applause from the whole room. The Spatari rector opened the ceremony with an intense and moving memory of Yasin Mirzaei, Iranian student of the athene recently disappeared during the protests in his country. “We don’t even forget Sara Campanella and Lorena forty – he added – our university is a university that chooses and assumes responsibility, that opens, that measures the impact, that puts students in the center, that builds bridges with work. We want our university to remain accessible and that university experience is sustainable.”.
Spatari also dealt with political and financing issues: “We estimate a reduction in funds following the conclusion of the Pnrr. If the Pnrr remains a parentheses, we will miss a historic opportunity. If we turn it into permanent skills and infrastructure, we will build future. It serves a public choice not to disperse human capital and not to return to precariousness as normality”. The rapporteur also underlined that in the newly approved forecasting budget, 90 young researchers are expected to hire, to “hold energy” and to enhance talent. Referring to the recent cases within the University, Spatari reiterated the importance of legality: “Without legality there is no autonomy, there is no reputation, there is no future. Legality means trust and coherence, in the way we select, spend and valuate. Young people do not need sermons, they need examples,” citing Sandro Pertini’s words.
Fabio Panetta closed the ceremony with a prolusion on the themes of human capital, education and economic growth. “The study, commitment and health protection are fundamental expressions of individual freedom, but their value depends on the institutional and economic context in which we live. Investing in education, research and training means investing in the potential of the country and in the aspirations of individuals,” he said. The governor recalled that “progress is a combination of knowledge, innovation and quality of institutions” and that the university contributes by forming high quality human capital. “I chose Messina, in Sicily, for its historical role as a crossroads of civilizations and cultures, and also for the challenges of growth that emerge here with evidence.” Finally, Panetta drew attention to the importance of human capital in economic growth, citing the Nobel Prize Theodore Schultz: “The human capital is the result of the investments that each carries out on himself to develop his own abilities and realize his own freedom.”.
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