Participation and accreditation

The Italian Youth Forum is free of charge and open to everyone.

General public

You can register for the opening evening on 14 April at the following link
You can register for the workshop sessions on 15 April at the following link

Press

Journalists can register for the opening evening on 14 April at the following link

14 April: the opening event

The first appointment on the Italian Youth Forum programme will be the opening event, which will be held on Friday 14 April at 9.00 pm at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi and which will be open to AIGU members and to the general public (accreditation at 8.15 pm).
During the evening, moderated by Francesca Pastorino, AIGU Regional Representative for Piedmont, and by the RAI presenter  Marco Carrara, a series of leading guests from the world of culture and institutions will take the stage. The event will open with the institutional greetings of Chiara Bocchio, President of AIGU, together with the AIGU Board and Executive Council and the members of AIGU Piedmont, who will welcome the guests, including: Franco Bernabè – President of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, Andrea Abodi – Minister for Sport and Youth, Rosanna Purchia – Councillor for Cultural Policies, Museums and Libraries, Cultural Activities and Events, Historical Archive of the City of Turin, Francesco Pennarola – Director of the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” of Turin.

Many more guests and topics will follow over the course of the evening. On stage will be: Emanuele Bolla – Councillor for Tourism, Events and UNESCO Creative Cities, representative of Alba, UNESCO Creative City for Gastronomy, Barbara Greggio – Councillor for Commerce and Economic Development, Productive Activities, Tourism, Mountains, UNESCO, and representative of Biella, UNESCO Creative City for Crafts and Folk Art, Carlotta Salerno – Councillor for the Suburbs and Urban Regeneration Projects, Educational and Youth Policies, Matters relating to Education, and representative of Torino Creativa, Renato Lavarini – Chief of Staff of the City of Ivrea and Coordinator of “Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century” UNESCO World Heritage site, Vittorio Salmoni – Focal Point Representative of Fabriano Creative City.

In the second session, speakers will include Denise Bax – UNESCO Secretary-General for the Creative Cities, via a video contribution, Alberto Lazzaro – President of the Young Entrepreneurs Union of Turin, Vincenzo Riemma – Presidency Councillor of the CNG, Guido Saracco – Rector of the Politecnico di Torino, Emma Taveri – Councillor for Tourism, Territorial Marketing and Culture of Brindisi, representing Bravo Innovation Hub.

The opening event will be punctuated by a variety of entertainment. Performances will include: the student chamber ensemble of the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” of Turin (Lucrezia Uberto, violin, Cecilia Caminiti, cello, and Matteo Borsarelli, piano) performing the first movement of the Trio op. 70 no. 1 by L.V. Beethoven, Atti Impuri Poetry Slam, a performance on the theme of literature and creativity, freely inspired by the figure of Italo Calvino on the centenary of his birth (1923-2023), the Asterlizze theatre company with the performance “La stanza”, an archival experience in Virtual Reality dedicated to the theme of rights and gender equality, Novis Games, a start-up dedicated to the world of gaming for blind and visually impaired people, and the percussionist Michele Annoni, a student of the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” of Turin, with Asventuras by A. Gerassimenez.

15 April: themes and guests of the scheduled workshops

On the second day of the Italian Youth Forum, Saturday 15 April, four workshops will take place:
The themes will be:

• CITIES AND MEMORY | HANDING DOWN THE FUTURE
  This workshop gives space to the cities, which will be able to tell their stories and illustrate their unique qualities, that is, the reasons why they have been recognised by UNESCO as Creative Cities, bringing together tradition and innovation, characteristics that the territories are called upon to communicate and pass on to present and future generations.
• CITIES AND DESIRE | DREAMING THE FUTURE THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
  This workshop explores the theme of innovation and its creative applications for cities and territories, demonstrating how these processes can be cross-cutting, touching both the scientific and the humanistic aspects of Culture.
• CITIES AND SIGNS | URBAN REGENERATION IN CREATIVE ECOSYSTEMS
  The focus of the third workshop is urban regeneration and the repurposing of spaces within our cities. Repurposing represents a creative process implemented to respond to the needs and requirements of communities and territories.
• CITIES AND EXCHANGES | THE COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS OF THE FUTURE
  The final workshop focuses on the concept of community as a founding element for the creation, in the eyes of young people, of the creative city of the future. By starting from listening to the community, it is possible to arrive at a shared design of what the cities of the future are and will be.

AIGU’s Italian Youth Forum 2023 has received the patronage of: Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l’UNESCO (CNIU), Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Dipartimento per le Politiche Giovanili e il Servizio Civile Universale, Regione Piemonte, Città di Torino, Città di Biella, Città di Alba, Città di Ivrea, Università di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, Rai per la Sostenibilità ESG 

The event, which adheres to the RAI No Women No Panel protocol, is organised with the media partnership of Rai Cultura and thanks to the collaboration of the Conservatorio statale di musica Giuseppe Verdi di Torino, Torino creativa and Gruppo Giovani imprenditori Unione Industriali Torino, Moleskine Foundation, Nimrod, Aurora, Officina della Scrittura.

IYF 2023 is made possible with the support of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, which has always listened to the younger generations and to their ideas and vision of the future, of the Associazione per la Commissione Nazionale per l’UNESCO – Italia (ONLUS) and of the Camera di Commercio Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Torino.