Academic Year Opening Ceremony 2025-2026

Opening of the 2025-26 Academic Year: Full Video

All the speeches and the highlights of Bocconi University’s 2025-2026 academic year opening ceremony in a single video

Time to Make Choices. Think Responsibly, Act with Vision

In a world gripped by health, environmental, technological and geopolitical crises, Rector Francesco Billari urges us not to be bound by indecision, but to turn knowledge into responsibility and progress

Bocconi Alumni Awards: Alumna of the Year Awarded to Elena Goitini and Two New Awards, Emerging Leader and Changemaker, Presented to Alisée de Tonnac and Adama Sanneh

The awardees will be honored on 16 October during Homecoming, the Bocconi community’s first major global reunion

Choices, Not Excuses: Bocconi Launches Its Message for the Future

From the defense of democracy and faith in young people, to the primacy of knowledge and freedom of research: these are the themes of Rector Francesco Billari’s speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 2025–2026 Academic Year. Speeches also by President Andrea Sironi and Keynote Speaker Nadia Calviño