A team of journalists, audiovisual professionals, and digital creators, led by General Manager Helga Cossu, will animate the Multimedia Digital Hub, which will be a hub for the contents that will be published on the new Leonardo Foundation website. A scientific information and technological innovation magazine which, preferring video language, will talk about technological development and digital transformation, the conquest of space and the challenges of cybersecurity, events, and the work to raise awareness of these themes in schools and in universities.
The cornerstone that guides the action of the new working group is an outreach programme developed through the production and distribution of multimedia content. focused on scientific disciplines and the main topics at the center of the global debate. Education, instruction, and training activities aimed primarily at the world of schools and universities are dedicated to STEM disciplines, a macrocosm projected into the future, made up of knowledge and curiosity, application, and study. As Roberto Cingolani, CEO of Leonardo, underlines, the Foundation must "explain to young people in a clear, easy way, with very advanced, predominantly digital methodologies, what technology means, what to do with technology, because this will be the best investment for future STEM generations”.
A work that the Foundation will not do alone, but which it will carry forward by establishing partnerships with other foundations, associations, institutions, universities, bodies, and private companies, in the belief that increasing knowledge is the only way to overcome the challenge of innovation.
The site is not the only tool with which the Leonardo Foundation presents itself as a point of reference in the field of dissemination. It is flanked by two other initiatives that play an important role in raising awareness around industrial and technological development, which is intertwined with the historical and social evolution of our country and becomes its distinctive feature.
“Civiltà delle Macchine” is the historic magazine founded in 1953 by Leonardo Sinisgalli, an extraordinary figure of engineer-poet. Closed in 1979, the magazine returned to print thanks to the Leonardo Foundation in 2019 and has now established itself as an authoritative voice in Italian industrial and technological culture. It encourages dialogue between scientific knowledge and the humanistic universe and, indeed, tells and illustrates its synthesis.
Through the Integrated Museum System, the Foundation works for the valorization of Italian industrial history through the care and promotion of the iconographic and archival heritage of the Leonardo group, the backbone of Italian manufacturing. With these purposes, it supervises the process of collecting, classifying, and digitalising the archives of the various corporate entities, a reality branched out across the national territory, capable of telling almost a century of industrial history.