Bocconi Students Help Their Future Colleagues

Solidarity between generations doesn't necessarily mean a senior professional helping a young person at the start of his/her career. Sometimes it's students who decide to lend a hand to their future colleagues. It thus happens that Bocconi Student Reps, who jointly organized the Students' Christmas Gala, have decided to give part of the funds raised during the event to Una Scelta Possibile [A Feasible Choice], the University's project helping disadvantaged students enroll at Bocconi.

"The decision", Giulia Bifano, leader of the B.Lab list and student representative at the School of Law, explains, "springs from the desire common to all Bocconians to see ever more deserving students enter the University. Especially those students coming from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds who, without the financial support provided by the project, would be unable to prove their worth at Bocconi."

Filippo Lo Re, president of another political student association, Unidea, agrees with her peer, and underlines how their job as student reps made them "understand how fundamental financial aid is in securing the right to an undergraduate education". "So we decided", Filippo adds, "to give our little contribution in favor of our future colleagues".

Student representatives have set up a way for twentysomethings to give their help to teenagers. The students say they were also inspired by "the keynote speech of Vittorio Colao, Bocconi Alumnus and supporter of the project, who reminded us how important the spirit of intergenerational solidarity is to ignite the virtuous circle linking social mobility to the diffusion of knowledge".