A legacy for schoolchildren and youngsters all over Italy

Rome: The Torino 2025 FISU World University Games are about a lot more than sport. They reached the younger generations through numerous school projects, which concluded by an awards ceremony for projects on sustainability.

The Torino 2025 FISU World University Games didn’t wait for the sports events to begin to launch their extensive schools programme. Schoolchildren and teenagers from all over Italy have been encouraged to participate to several cultural, educational and physical activity projects. Take a look at the main ones.

BoscoTO25, involving primary schools in all Piemonte towns hosting events, was launched in September 2024. This initiative promotes biodiversity, improves air quality, and combats pollution, while creating spaces for relaxation, social interaction, and recreational activities. Students played an active role by planting 130 selected trees with expert guidance and labelling their plants. Additionally, they participated in workshops on nature, biodiversity, and plant characteristics.

CasaTO2025 focused on the promotion and dissemination of sport within the youth sectors, with a particular focus on winter sports taking place during the FISU Games Torino 2025, adapted to the summer version. The summer centres participating in the project -with a total of around 700 youngsters – had the opportunity to attend ice skating lessons and to visit Fisulandia, a theme park dedicated to winter sports. The project ran from 17 June to 9 August 2024.

The TO Art In Motion project is based on the concept of urban regeneration and aims to inspire and enable participants to express themselves artistically. The project was carried out in October 2024 and was dedicated to the secondary schools of the municipalities hosting the competition. 250 students took part to the project.

The national Make School (and Sport) More Sustainable competition, realised in collaboration with Sport Innovation Hub APS, aimed at inspiring the third and fourth grade classes of the Secondary Sports Institutes all over the country to realise video-lessons that, through the support of specific tutors from the sector, have three main themes as their main protagonist:

A total of 78 teams for an equivalent of 320 students participated and the winners were announced on Friday 17 January during a two day conference “Scientific-Sports High School: rethinking paradigms to orient the educational change towards a sustainable future’” to which the dual career topic was central .

The three winning teams with their medals and officials on Friday 17 January in Torino.

The conference started with a round table with representatives from both the school and sporting worlds, including Luca Imperatore (Didactic Coordinator of the Istituto Sociale), Stefano Suraniti (General Director of URS Piemonte), Carlotta Salerno (Councillor for Education of the City of Turin), Bertrand Fincoeur (representative of the Education & Culture Department of FISU) and the Alessandro Ciro Sciretti (President of the Torino 2025 FISU World University Games Organising Committee). The discussion was moderated by Marta Serrano, Director of Sport Innovation Hub.

It was then time to welcome the national contest winners, who had just been enjoying sports practice during the day. The bronze medallists are team Sport Insieme from IIS Olivetti (Ivrea) with their project on inclusive volleyball. Second and silver medallists, Team 3 A DVN 1 from IIS Da Vinci Nitti (Cosenza) who presented women referees and finally the big winners came all the way from the South of Italy: team Imaginers from IIS F. Giordani (Caserta) with their video lesson called “Driving Innovation: Powering the Sustainable Future of Motorsports”

The winners all the way from Campania.

Bertrand Fincoeur from FISU giving out the medals.

The Torino 2025 FISU World University Games take place from 13-23 January. Watch all the competitions live on fisu.tv. Click on the link to find the full schedule.