Regional Council and Forum award the excellent young people of 2019

“Campania expresses so many young talents. Today we are awarding some of these young excellences and I am proud to do so with the Youth Forum because the challenge of development passes through quality employment for young people. Many leave Campania but many also return or choose to invest in their future and then return, like Maria Luisa D'Onofrio, the 31-year-old Irpinia school principal who is the youngest in Italy or like Rosario Esposito La Rossa, founder in Scampia and Melito of the first neighborhood bookshop, La Scugnizzeria which “sells books instead of drugs”. We awarded them to send a message that you can become known worldwide also by working here, because we have extraordinary skills and we must ensure that those who have left can return. This award is also a symbolic gesture that however requires a commitment from us institutions, and I say this in the days of the approval of the financial law, which goes in the direction of training and skills of the new generations”.

This is what the President of the Regional Council said at the awards ceremony in the Siani Hall, “Young excellences of Campania 2019 and excellence for young people from Campania 2019″ promoted by the Regional Youth Forum.

The plaques were presented by the President of the Youth Forum, Giuseppe Caruso, the President of the Regional Council of Campania, Rosetta D'Amelio, and the Regional Councillor for Education, Lucia Fortini.

The award was received by Rosario Esposito La Rossa (editorial director of the publishing houses Marotta&Cafiero and Coppola editore who founded the first in Scampia and Melito

neighborhood bookstore, Scugnizzeria); Gerardo Biscardi (author of the book 'With pockets full of happiness' on bullying, friendship, disability); Maria Luisa D'Onofrio (the 31-year-old Irpinia school principal, the youngest in Italy), Federica Caraco' (an engineer who with her study has halved the radiation from CT scans); Giovanni Ciccarelli (33-year-old cardiologist, winner in 2017 of the Young Investigator Award, given to him by the European Society of Cardiology); Giovanni De Feo (professor of Industrial Ecology at the University of Salerno, founder of Greenopoli, already environmentalist of the year in 2018); Don Tonino Palmese (president of the Polis foundation).