Italy Pitches 2023 Competition Announces Winners

JCU’s Programs for High Schools is pleased to announce the winners of the Italy Pitches 2023 competition. Ten finalists were selected from among the 60 advocacy video pitches received. The videos were posted on the Institute for Entrepreneurship’s Facebook page for the popular vote.

This year, Italy Pitches received 60 advocacy video pitches from 180 students, and their teachers from 13 schools in Como (CO), Pinerolo, (TO), Pomezia (RM), Rome (RM), Savona (SV), Terni (TR), Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi (AV), and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Institute for Entrepreneurship

JCU’s Institute for Entrepreneurship offers this national, English-language pitching competition for Italian high-school students, online and certifiable for 30 hours for PCTO. Participating students select an Italian or international organization with a strong corporate social responsibility and create an advocacy video that will effectively promote the values the organization stands for.

The project is articulated as a 30-hour self-administered program that covers the following topics:

• The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals
• Corporate Social Responsibility, Impact Investing and the Triple Bottom Line
• The Essentials of Video-Making

An advocacy video-pitch is a short video used to quickly convey the urgency for action towards one or more specific goals, using words, sounds and images to persuade the viewers to take action. Widely used for networking and fund-raising, pitching and video-pitching are learnable skills that generate confidence and empower students to change their world.

Winners – each winning video receives an Amazon gift voucher for €100

• Students in Class 3 E (Professor Andrea Ridolfi), Liceo Scientifico Statale “Giovanni Keplero”, Roma (RM) for Poste Italiane
• Students in Class 4 E (Professor Andrea Ridolfi), Liceo Scientifico Statale “Giovanni Keplero”, Roma (RM) for Enel Green Power
• Students in Class 3 L (Professor Giulia Gatticchi), Liceo Scientifico Statale “Giovanni Keplero”, Roma (RM) for Piaggio
• Students in Class 1 E (Professor Marina Schiaroli), IIS Classico Artistico – Liceo Classico G.C. Tacito, Terni (TR) for Salvatore Ferragamo

Finalists

• Students in Class 3 L (Professor Giulia Gatticchi), Liceo Scientifico Statale “Giovanni Keplero”, Roma (RM) for Barilla
• Students in Class 3 F (Professor Tiziana Baeli), Liceo G. della Rovere, Savona (SV) for Barilla
• Students in Class 1 E (Professor Marina Schiaroli), IIS Classico Artistico – Liceo Classico G.C. Tacito, Terni (TR) for Arcor
• Students in Class 4 G (Professor Francesco Ieradi), Liceo Statale Niccolò Machiavelli, Roma (RM) for Natura Cosmetiques
• Students in Class 5 E (Professor Marina Schiaroli), IIS Classico Artistico – Liceo Classico G.C. Tacito, Terni (TR) for Aguas Danone Argentina
• Students in Class 1 E (Professor Marina Schiaroli), IIS Classico Artistico – Liceo Classico G.C. Tacito, Terni (TR) for Enel Green Power

Watch all finalist pitches that made it to the popular vote.