ADOPT A PHILOSOPHER
category: educational project
edition: since 2019
frequency: yearly
Starting in 2019, Fondazione Campania dei Festival launched a series of lectures curated by Massimo Adinolfi and aimed at high school seniors, given by thirty philosophy scholars. The lectures intended to foster the knowledge and preservation of European history among the younger generations.
Professors and scholars from Campania, such as Biagio De Giovanni, Aldo Masullo, Fulvio Tessitore, and Vincenzo Vitiello, visited high school students throughout the region to explain the process of political construction of the European Union and its future.
Eighty institutes joined the initiative, each welcoming a philosopher, who discussed the historical meaning of European citizenship with the students.
At the end of the project, each school submitted an essay chosen for final selection by Fondazione Campania dei Festival. The essays were reviewed by a commission that chose the six best papers, which received an award during a public ceremony. The latter was open to all the students who took part in the project, who received a free-access card to all the shows of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, as well as to the exhibitions on show at Madre – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in the following year.
The students of each awarded Institute were offered the chance to go on a school trip to the European Parliament in Brussels in October.
Following the success of the first edition, Fondazione Campania dei Festival decided to continue the training program and launched “Adotta un filosofo 2.” Thirty-four philosophy professors and scholars held lectures on the theme of “Law” that involved eighty-three high schools across the region: thirty five from Naples’ great metropolitan area, eighteen from Caserta, fifteen from Salerno, twelve from Avellino, and three from Benevento.