Didacta Italia 2025 took place in Florence from March 12 to 14, 2025. For three days, the fair transformed Florence into the European capital of the school of the future, serving as a meeting point for educational institutions, companies, organizations, associations, teachers, principals, and school operators to synergistically promote innovation in the educational world.

The Fondazione MAIRE – ETS once again chose the setting of Fortezza Da Basso, among art, culture, and innovation, to promote its training and orientation projects dedicated to young students, to expand its dialogue not only with the new generations but also with educational institutions, organizations, and teachers, who face the challenge of training new generations every day.

The training of the "humanist engineer" of tomorrow and the dissemination of knowledge on topics related to climate mitigation and adaptation are our response to the needs of a evolving world facing the challenge of climate change. Global vision and targeted actions, this is our proposal in the two workshops of this year's scientific program that we had the pleasure of fostering and promoting.

In the first workshop, held on Thursday, March 13, titled "War and Peace: Will Climate Diplomacy Save the World?", our General Director Ilaria Catastini together with Jacopo Bencini, President of Italian Climate Network and researcher at the European University Institute, explored the global, political, and economic scenario, highlighting how the fight against climate change should be a common commitment and what solutions can be put in place to act in unison. The reflection was also fueled by the results of our research "Climate Goals" conducted in 12 countries.

The second workshop, held on Friday, March 14, led by Irene Di Amato and Federica Bitti, titled "Students Today, Leaders Tomorrow. How to Guide Young People Towards the New Skills Required by the Climate Challenge", focused more specifically on our training proposal, the story of our projects, and the delineation of these "new skills": who is the humanist engineer? What challenges does they face today, what is required of them? The fusion of the humanistic soul with the technical one takes the form of an engineer who finds themselves dialoguing with a public administration or a local community to explain the added value inherent in the construction of a plant in a specific segment of territory.

Didacta Italia once again proved to be a fruitful opportunity to meet the educational world, among teachers intrigued by the training proposal on sustainability and technologies for the energy transition, and to discover new tools to attract young people to a competitive and indispensable sector like humanistic engineering.

"Alongside young people to build a more sustainable tomorrow"