GIULIANA MANICA - Regional Minister for Equal Opportunities of the Regione Piemonte
What are the objectives of the Fair?
We think of this Fair as the beginning of a permanent laboratory dedicated to social innovation in which the Regione Piemonte will be one of the protagonists. We would like to see a society founded on the three "T"s; where not only "talent" and "technology" are valued, but where also "tolerance" becomes a key element that provides competitiveness and social sustainability in development.
All discrimination is born from prejudice and negative sterotypes which place people in rigid categories and do not allow diversity to show its true colours. This is not only a violation of the person's rights, sometimes taken as far as violence, but it is also a brake on modernisation and development.
During the three day of the Fair, Piedmont will be the capital of an international debate on equal opportunities. A true simmering of cultures for which we have chosen a neo-logism: "Melting Box"; a place for meeting and confronting with each other's cultures.