Myllennium Award 2022: six young talents from Campania awarded

Myllennium Award 2022: six young talents from Campania awarded. Cash prizes, training courses and concrete professional opportunities.

39 winners of the eighth edition of the Myllennium Award were awarded last night in Rome: six are from Campania. Cash prizes, training courses and concrete professional opportunities.

New talents will receive over 160 thousand euros in awards: 10 award categories, from the most promising startups in the technological and social fields, to new artistic expressions in the world of Cinema, Music and urban art; from the publication of essays, to internships, Masters, training and consultancy.

The Myllennium Award, since its inception, has rewarded the merit of over 270 young people from all over Italy and recognized 1 million euros in prizes. Talent has never been valued so much.

Antonio Montano, Ivano Granato, Luca Amato, Andrea Nuzzo, Luca Vittorio Raiola e John Mary D'Antonio. They are the six young people from Naples and the province awarded with the Myllennium Award, the first multidisciplinary award in Italy dedicated to the valorization of talent under 30, through concrete training and professional opportunities.

The eighth edition of the award, promoted by the Barletta Group and the Foundation of the same name, was celebrated yesterday evening at Villa Medici with the awards ceremony of 39 young winners from all over Italy, who stood out for their highly innovative and scalable projects, as well as for their motivation and curricula. The protagonists took turns on stage called to collect the deserved recognition by the journalist and presenter Pierluigi Pardo with the kind and friendly participation of Ema Stokholma.

The Myllennium Award 2022 is divided into 10 categories, with many Special Prizes: Non-fiction “MyBOOK”, Startup “MySTARTUP”, Journalism “MyREPORTAGE”, Job and training opportunities “MyJOB”, Architecture/Street art “MyCITY”, Cinema “MyFRAME”, Music “MyMUSIC”, Dual Career “MySPORT”, Social entrepreneurship “MySOCIALIMPACT” and Arts and crafts “MyBRICKS”.

The most deserving were chosen by the Technical-Scientific Committee composed of professionals from the academic and scientific world, economics, industry, journalism, cinema, institutions and sport.

For the MyBOOK category, Ivano Granato, Antonio Montano and the duo Andrea Nuzzo and Luca Vittorio Raiola, won the Graphic Novel Special Award for the works developed on the theme Uchronies and parallel universes. A publishing contract and the related publication with Round Robin Editrice is ready for them.

MyJOB awards Masters and Internships. Luca Amato has won a post-graduate course in Marketing and Communication at Bocconi University in Milan.

Awarded for the category “Millennial Excellence” by Alessandro Onorato (councilor for major events, sports, tourism and fashion of the Capitoline Council), Giovanni Maria D'Antonio, a Neapolitan student born in 2003, who in 2021 won the European Philosophy Championship and obtained fourth place in the world, first European student, in the world competition. Thanks to his extraordinary academic successes he was admitted to Harvard University and in 2022 he was chosen to hold a lectio magistralis at the opening ceremony of Procida Italian Capital of Culture.

With its eight editions, the Myllennium Award has exceeded 1 million euros in recognized prizes, all intended to enhance the merit and talent of young people under 30. It has received and analyzed applications with more than 4.800 projects, awarding over 270.

The Myllennium Award is sponsored by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of University and Research and the Lazio Region. It boasts the bronze medal of the Senate, an honor awarded to initiatives that stand out for their social, educational spirit and high representativeness.