Education and Merit Minister Giuseppe Valditara has completed a visit to the Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
    The minister was welcomed by the Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka Mario Vattani, Italy's Ambassador to Japan Gianluigi Benedetti and the Italian Consul in Osaka Filippo Manara.
    During his two-day visit, Valditara met with 80 Italian and Japanese students who took part in the Future School project of the Ministry of Education and Merit and who will be the protagonists of an international event scheduled to take place in Naples on October 9-13 dedicated to artificial intelligence.
    The initiative followed the first national Summit on School and Artificial Intelligence, promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit, which was held in Milan in January this year, and in line with the thematic week of Expo 2025 Osaka, which focuses on the question "What should humans learn in the era of AI?".
    The students who attended the event spoke about their experiences and projects, in cooperation with different international actors.
    During his visit to Japan, Valditara also met with Japan's deputy minister of education.
    "We stressed the need for a strong cooperation on two strategic sectors - artificial intelligence and technical-professional education", said Valditara after the meeting, also speaking about "creating a bilateral commission to study, design, think about the school of the future".
    In his final address, the minister told the students who were present that these moments are "an occasion" for a "new school model that aims to work on connections, unions, dialogue, a critical sense" - a message "you have built over the past few days" and "you have understood, multiplied, perfected, improved and enhanced".
    The Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, Ambassador Mario Vattani, stressed that Valditara's presence in Japan "boosts an essential message present across our pavilion" that "education is the engine of the future of our societies".
    Future School, added Vattani, "is a project of great value because it is aimed at enhancing Italy's education culture, its most innovative didactic models and the entire technological training and professional process".
    "We are speaking about a school that promotes students, invests in technical and professional education and renews the social role of education", concluded the commissioner general for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka.

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