Innovation comes aboard a mobile laboratory in Bologna.
A traveling program of educational activities that, through technological and digital tools, will explore the relationship between digital, science, society, and the environment, strengthening the skills and critical thinking of citizens, including those at risk of vulnerability and exclusion, on technological innovation and science as tools for democracy and empowerment.
But it also includes a series of scientific dissemination workshops on cutting-edge topics in digital and technological innovation for young people and adults, fostering a critical and informed vision of science, digital innovation, and knowledge.
In short, science and knowledge (strategic levers for development and inclusion) are joining a mobile laboratory that, starting in 2026, will be deployed throughout Bologna, making technology and knowledge accessible, in an inclusive and creative way, even to those typically excluded from or lacking easy access to the city's more traditional cultural and innovation hubs.
The project is called Mobile Workshops of Knowledge and is a program that combines innovation, scientific dissemination, active citizenship and democracy, born from the collaboration between the Municipality of Bologna , the Iu Rusconi Ghigi Foundation , the Golinelli Foundation and Tper .
"Collaborating on the Municipality of Bologna's Officine mobili della conoscenza project allows us to set an ambitious goal," explained Antonio Danieli , vice president and general director of the Golinelli Foundation, during the initiative's presentation: "reaching, over the course of three years, over 61,000 primary and secondary school students in the Bologna metropolitan area and, thanks to the involvement of teachers and families, reaching a total catchment area of over 100,000 people."
Scientific skills and humanistic sensibilities. The themes of the program (from edutech to data culture, to artificial intelligence, machine learning , privacy , virtual and augmented reality, cybersecurity , robotics, and biotechnology), he added, "are part of a holistic approach to culture, combining art, science, and technology, a characteristic of Bologna and fully representative of the foundation's mission. This educational model combines scientific skills and humanistic sensibilities, preparing young men and women to face the challenges of the future with an open, critical, and creative outlook."
Within this framework, Danieli continued, "the Golinelli Foundation is supporting the initiative with a total contribution of 700,000 euros: 500,000 euros in kind , the value of the educational and training activities made available to the project and offered free of charge to students and citizens, and 200,000 euros earmarked for the purchase of innovative technologies for the motorhome 's outfitting."
This mobile laboratory, he explains, "equipped with 30 individual workstations and numerous additional spaces, will be innovative and allow students to experience the activities firsthand, as active participants in a journey of discovery and learning. Thanks to its mobile nature, it will also reach environments that would otherwise be difficult to access educational experiences of this caliber, serving as a path of orientation and a means of combating educational hardship."
At the beginning and in the text, photos by the Golinelli Foundation press office
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