Maria Pia Rossignaud and Stefano Mancuso will represent Italy at the “Congress of the Future”, which is due to open in Santiago on January 19 until January 24. The event, now in its fifth year, is conceived as a forum promoting an exchange of ideas between Chile and the world’s leading scientific thinkers. This year’s main topic of discussion will be the transformations of the 21st century, which are bound to “radically change human life and that of the rest of the planet”. Every scientific discovery and every technological development leads the way to ‘a whole series of opportunities, threats, demands, challenges and decisions that mankind has to confront.’ The Congress of the Future urges citizens across the world to be aware of these transformations, understand their impact and voice their contribution to building the future. “It is in this context that Maria Pia Rossignaud will participate in a meeting on Thursday January 21 entitled “Knowledge, culture and innovation. New tools for education in the future”.
A forum promoting an exchange of ideas between Chile and the world’s leading scientific thinkers
Still on January 21 Stefano Mancuso will be participating in a panel entitled “The civilisation of the future, human or artificial? The unknown world” together with distinguished panelists: a journalist, editor-in-chief of the Italian digital culture magazine Media Duemila and the vice president of the cultural association “Osservatorio TuttiMedia”, a world-renowned expert in the field of plant neurobiology, as well as founder and director of the International Laboratory for Plant Neurobiology at the University of Florence. The Congress is organised by the Chilean Senate, which hosts the event, in partnership with the Italian embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Santiago.
