03.00pm – 06.00pm Rome
Rotary Institute 2023 – Opening session (Conference Center La Nuvola)
• Opening ceremony and institutional welcome – Fabio Rossello (Chair)
• “Change means evolution”
Alberto Cecchini (Rotary International Board Director – Convener)
• “Create hope in the world”
Gordon McInally (Rotary International President)
• “Searching for an evolutionary course within the great age transition”
Marco Guzzi (Poet and philosopher)
• “Energy transition: transforming our economic, industrial and social model. A smooth or tough
revolution?”
Gianni Di Giovanni (ENI China CEO)
• “Change to survive and thrive ”
Paolo Taticchi (UCL School of Management)
09:00am – 01:30pm Rome Rotary Institute 2023 –
Plenary session
- Welcome greetings and introduction – Fabio Rossello (Chair)
- Rotary action Plan – Brad Howard (Rotary International Past Board Director)
SESSION 1 – IMPACT
- Agenda 2030. Goal 13: Promote action to combat climate change
Moderator: Francesco Giorgino (Journalist)
SPEECHES: Faiz Kidwai (Rotary International Board Director); Fiorella
Sgallari (Governatore Distretto 2072); Holger Knaack (Rappresentante Rotary
Foundation); Chiara Cardoletti (UNHCR’s Representative for Italy)
SESSION 2 – REACH
- Interview :Michael Sheldrick (Global Citizen Co-founder)
- Creating awareness of our impact and our brand – Presentations of successful Rotary projects,
Daniele Piervincenzi (Journalist) - Expanding our reach through Rotary Alumni – Alberto Domenighini
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – Brian RUSCH (Rotary Club for Global Action)
SESSION 3 – ENGAGE
- Halve food waste by 2030 is possible, indeed it’s a must! Rotary’s commitment, from prevention to food devolution
Moderator: Andrea Segrè (President of the Rotary District 2072 Zero Waste and Nutrition Education Committee – Scientific Director of Waste
Watcher International)
SPEECHES: Cristina Bowerman (Michelin-starred Chef); Anna Favero
(District 2060 Governor); Andrea Belli (Head of Italian Media and External Relations – Gruppo Barilla); Massimo
Pallottino (Caritas – Focal point per Advocacy)
SESSION 4 – ADAPT
- Mental health in the changing era
“Stress and adaptation in the changing world: psychopathology and resilience” – Giuseppe Bersani
(Former Professor of Psychiatry, Sapienza University, Rome – Fondazione Roma Sapienza)
“New addictions: the Web, between bewilderment and bonding” – Ornella Corazza (Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Trento)
“The temptation of individualism: isolation, narcis- sism and the recovery of a sense of sociality” – Michela
Pensavalli (Guest Professor – Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum, Rome) - “Rotary change model”
John HEWKO (Rotary International CEO and General Secretary)
01:30pm – 02:30pm Lunch
03:30pm – 05:30pm Workshop sessions (participants will be in groups of 10 together with a coach)
09:00am – 01:00pm Rome Rotary Institute 2023 –
Closing session
- Introduction and overview of previous days – Fabio Rossello (Chair)
- Working Group outcomes – Federica Thiene, Stefania Mantovani e
Marcello Andria - Open forum: Gordon McInally (Rotary International President)
- Rotary International financial updates
- Polio, a challenge to overcome: Holger Knaack, Faiz Kidwai, Bashar
Asfour
Rotary beyond the club- 25th anniversary of German Rotary Volunteer Doctor – Jobst E. Isbary
- Uno para la Palma – Sergio Almeida
- Legalità and Rotary4Europe projects – Patrizia Cardone
- New Generation Service Exchange (NGSE)- Luciano Di Martino
- Rotaract MUN (Model United Nations) Salerno – Maria Vittoria Gargiulo
- 100 years of Rotary Italia – Giulio Koch
- Promoting the Rotary Institute 2024 – Hans-Hermann Kasten
- Promoting the Singapore Convention – Jan Mittelstaedt
- Closing remarks
01.00 pm Farewell lunch