The 55th edition of the Giffoni Film Festival, supported by the European cohesion policy funds of the Campania Region, had as its theme ‘Becoming Human’.
At the inauguration, the President of the Campania Region reiterated his decision to support, through the European resources of the Campania Region, a festival aimed at helping the younger generations to understand modernity and not to suffer it. The President recalled the interventions that the Campania Region, again with the support of the European Union, is making in the field of quantum computers, but specified that ‘a large computing capacity must not coincide with dehumanisation’. In the same vein, De Luca called on young people to use social media responsibly, so as not to be left behind by real problems and feelings. Paying attention to fake news. “The real world is becoming desertified due to an environmental transition – said De Luca – the solution is not the flight from reality but using technologies to solve these problems instead of investing in increasingly destructive weapons”.
The audience of the Festival was also the occasion for a presentation of the A Scuola di OpenCoesione project. The innovative path of interdisciplinary teaching aimed at first and second grade secondary schools, which promotes civic monitoring of cohesion policy funding, including through the use of open data and the use of information and communication technologies, was proposed to a +13 jury. The project, of which the Campania Region is a partner, aims to promote active citizenship, with the aim of developing communication and digital skills for students to monitor current interventions, starting with the analysis of data and information on interventions financed by cohesion policies in their territory, and then carrying out inspections and interviews that will make up a final creative work.
Giffoni is also education to Legality. For this reason, Mario Morcone, Councillor for Security, Legality and Immigration of the Campania Region, met the young people of the Giffoni Film Festival in the Impact formula. The meeting was also an opportunity to talk about the fight against the mafias and how the European cohesion policy funds of the Campania Region (ERDF and ESF+) support initiatives on the reuse of Assets confiscated from organised crime.
A complex, lively and participated edition that of 2025 for the Giffoni Film Festival and for its founder Claudio Gubitosi who is preparing to give up the baton and face new adventures. In his greeting, the Director recalled how the large public investments of the European Union of the Campania Region and the Italian Government have allowed a small rural reality in Campania to become a place where thousands of young people from all over the world come together and where 90 people work all year round to keep alive a format that today has relations with 30 countries around the world.
“Giffoni is grateful for the commitment and support – said the Vice-President of the Campania Region, Fulvio Bonavitacola, who spoke at the closing ceremony of the Festival – but Giffoni’s growth and success are for Campania an element of improvement in the image that increasingly qualifies a region, such as ours, that breathes European and that wants to improve its perception in the world more and more”.
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