Barbara Picutti Creative Contest
Archives are a repository of stories:
the “Barbara Picutti Creative Contest” is the right time to tell them!
The theme for 2025 is:
ROUTE TALES
After the success of the first edition, our creative format “Barbara Picutti Creative Contest” is back! The format was born thanks to the inspiration of our colleague Barbara Picutti, “engineer and humanist”-as she liked to call herself-, who passed away prematurely in 2023.
The creative contest, also for the 2025 edition, is exclusively for MAIRE Group colleagues. The challenge will be to navigate inside our digital vault, the Group's historical digital Archive, and be inspired by a project, a photo, a document or a video to write a tale on the theme of “travel,” in all its meanings: travel of memory, travel as exploration, business travel, travel into the future etc.
The extraordinary materials preserved in our Archives, covering a time span from 1897 to the present day, will be the signs, traces, notes, and witnesses through which the theme of travel will take on life and substance: places visited, destinations to reach, roads to travel, horizons to dream of, experiences to remember. The tales, true or fancy, will be the witnesses of the history of enterprise, of the eras and worlds traversed, the imagined future scenarios, of the extraordinary ability of the men and women who with skill and creativity wrote them down, giving us back a completely personal vision of places and reality.
The MAIRE Historical Archives chronicles a journey of more than a century. And this is just the beginning!
Click below to find out how to participate and unleash your imagination!
We'll be waiting for your tale!
THE REGULATION
Colleagues who wish to participate in the competition must follow the following rules, under penalty of exclusion:
- The competition is reserved for employees of MAIRE Group Companies and retired colleagues. Applications from members of the contest jury, employees of MAIRE Group Companies continuously involved in the activities of the Fondazione MAIRE - ETS, employees of the Fondazione MAIRE, and members of its Board of Directors will not be accepted.
- Each tale may have a maximum length of 8,000 characters, including spaces.
- Each tale can be submitted in Italian or English.
- Each tale must relate to the theme of the 2025 edition, “ROUTE TALES”, focusing on the concept of travel, and be inspired, in any way or to any extent, by materials preserved in the Digital vault (Digital Historical Archive) of the Group.
- Each tale may focus on one or more materials from the Archive.
- Each tale must be submitted along with images and/or archival materials used as the subject of the story.
- Each tale must be previously unpublished. Any partial exceptions (e.g., quotes) must be declared and will be reviewed by the Fondazione MAIRE - ETS. The use of AI for the creation, drafting, or revision of the text is not permitted.
- Each tale may be structured in paragraphs.
- Footnotes are not allowed.
- Only narrative writing (true or fancy) will be accepted. Essays, manuals, historiographic texts, and other forms of writing are not allowed.
- Each participant may submit only one tale. However, participation in pairs or groups is allowed, with the submission of a single tale.
- Participants are fully responsible for the tale’s content, including intellectual property rights, usage rights, and compliance with applicable laws regarding confidential or sensitive information.
- Participants agree to fully transfer the copyright of the submitted tale to the Fondazione MAIRE - ETS.
TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND INFORMATIONS:
The tales, accompanied by images and/or archival materials referenced in the narrative, must be sent via e-mail, in Word and PDF format, to the attention of Francesca Rinaldo at the e-mail address francesca.rinaldo@fondazionemaire.com no later than March 7, 2025.
To browse the digital Vault (the historical digital Archive) of the Group and explore its materials, you must register for the Vault at this link: https://mairetecnimont.archivio.com/console/login. Registration is free of charge.
The tales will be evaluated by a specially appointed jury.
The most compelling tales will be awarded and subsequently highlighted through publication on the internal and external communication channels of the Fondazione MAIRE – ETS as well as the MAIRE Group, and may also be used by the Fondazione MAIRE for additional external activities (e.g., submitted as entries for contests outside the company).
The authors will be notified of every use of their stories.
For any clarification you can contact Francesca Rinaldo, at the e-mail address francesca.rinaldo@fondazionemaire.com.
Enjoy you writing!
THE JURY
The jury will be chaired by our President Fabrizio Di Amato, and composed of:
- Franco Ghiringhelli, MAIRE Group Human Resources, ICT, Organization & Procurement Senior Vice President
- Carlo Nicolais, MAIRE Group Institutional Relations, Communication & Sustainability Vice President
- Gianni Bardazzi, MAIRE Group Risk Management, Special Initiatives and Regions Coordination Senior Vice President
- Sergio Paggi, Tecnimont Technology and Process Engineering Senior Advisor
- Simona Dolce, MAIRE Group Corporate Affairs, Governance, Ethics & Compliance Vice President
- Maria Selli, MAIRE Group HSE&SA and Project Quality Vice President
- Sathiamoorthy Gopalsamy, Tecnimont Engineering, Technology & Services Projects Vice President
- Antonio De Simone, Tecnimont Cost Control Engineer
- Lucrezia Del Gesso, NextChem Senior Technology Process Engineer
DIGITALE ARCHIVE
This digital vault is an information technology platform where about 20,000 drawings, plans, documents from MAIRE's historical archive have been digitized; it enables efficient and quick consultation of materials by cross-referencing descriptive categories, metadata, vocabulary terms, chronological references and tags.
Register for free and explore the vault!