Tomorrow, Tuesday 18 April, in the presence of Undersecretary Paola Frassinetti, the winners of the sixth edition of the competition for schools for the National Day of Civil Victims of Wars and Conflicts in the World, organized by the National Association of Civil War Victims, will be awarded and by the Ministry of Education and Merit.
The award ceremony will take place in Rome, as part of the event celebrating the 80th anniversary of the ANVCG which will begin at 16.00 in the Bachelet room of the TH Roma Carpegna Palace Hotel, where a selection of the children's works will also be exhibited. in an exhibition curated by Tanja Mattucci.
The competition (a single section for lower secondary schools and three sections – writing, video and graphics – for lower secondary schools) saw around 500 entries received from schools throughout Italy. The theme proposed this year was a reflection on the link between historical memory and current events, 80 years after the start of the most massive bombing of Italy in 1943.
The day following the award ceremony, the students will visit “Esperienza Europa – David Sassoli”, the new multimedia center for learning about the European Union opened in Rome and dedicated to the memory of the former President of the European Parliament, and the Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum, symbol of German occupation in Rome and the scene of the brutal massacre. To accompany the classes on the visit, the President of the National Association of Families of the Victims of the Nazi-Fascist Massacres, Francesco Albertelli.
The competition is carried out within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between MIM and ANVCG which provides for other activities such as "Witnesses of Peace", which brings into the classrooms the direct testimony of those who have suffered the tragic consequences of war, and the widespread education work to the risk on the theme of unexploded ordnance of war which has been carried out for years in Italian schools.