The students of the Gian Battista Bodoni Technical Institute of Economics in Parma have a new, special space at their disposal in which to follow the lessons. That is the Bodoni Open Garden, a classroom specially equipped for carrying out educational activities in the open air and surrounded by greenery. The blackboard, desks and chairs thus emerge from their traditional location and find a place in a garden entrusted to the care of the students themselves.
The ribbon cutting took place on May 23, a date with a strong symbolic value being entitled to commemorate the mafia massacres in which the magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino lost their lives. During the ceremony, the students received a cutting from the tree that grows near Falcone’s house.
Maxima supported the project together with other sponsors such as Fondazione Cariparma, Manifattura Urbana and KilometroVerde Parma.
“Having had the opportunity to collaborate with the principal Elisabetta Mangi for other initiatives in support of the school, we took the opportunity to support Bodoni Open Garden. We are proud to have contributed to an initiative that will help young people train and ‘cultivate’ values, considering that the baptism of this project falls on Legality Day. All of this fully embraces Maxima’s logic, aimed at giving back to the territory through the support of initiatives such as this one”, declares Nicola Fabbi, Vice President of Maxima.
The “Gian Battista Bodoni” Technical Economic Institute was born in 1974 and bears the name of the famous typographer who worked in Parma during the Enlightenment and neoclassical era.
Read the article dedicated to the initiative in the Gazzetta di Parma.
