The Ri.MED Foundation has accepted an invitation from the Palermo City Government and the University of Palermo, and issued calls for applications to the “Intelligence Festival,” presented on October 10, 2016 at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
Local companies launched a competition for ideas, submitted to 1,500 students in Palermo. The event at the theater was sold out. The mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, the dean of the University, Fabrizio Micari, the Ri.MED CEO Alessandro Padova, the managing director and director general of STMicroelectronics Italia, Carmelo Papa, Cisco Account Manager Graziano Leuzzi Graziano, and many others were present.
This is a real challenge: to seek innovation aimed at local growth and development. The heart of the initiative is a competition for ideas, addressed to university and high school students from Palermo. Participating companies, multinationals, and small and medium-sized enterprises asked the participants to come up with creative proposals to open up further development perspectives for the companies.
The participants will have to offer operational proposals capable of advancing the companies and, at the same time, of creating value for the local territory. The best ideas will be awarded with prizes offered by the companies, which will directly evaluate the talent and creativity of the young participants.
The Ri.MED Foundation is searching for an original idea for a video to present the activities and scientific aims of the foundation that could serve as a brand awareness vehicle and a tool to launch a fund raising campaign for scientific research applied to health. The video must be moving and capable of capturing the attention of the audience; it must also represent the elements that characterize the Ri.MED Foundation, the activities performed, the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (BRBC), and highlight the usefulness of the goals of health-applied scientific research.
Students should submit their proposals together with a storyboard, which includes the idea as well as detailed modalities for the realization of the video. The storyboard should include all the sequences and phases, explain the flow of visual, textual, and audio elements, and conversations and actions of the characters. Each participant can send a single project proposal articulated in several tables (A3 white paper sheet, horizontally oriented), each of which must include six numbered rectangles representing the sequences. Each sequence must include a progressive number, and show in detail ongoing actions, framing, instructions for the cameraman, any conversations among characters, type of additional audio (background music or sound effects) and visual effect, and provide a clear vision of what is happening in each sequence.
All details to access the competition, call, and subscription form are available at www.comune.palermo.it and www.unipa.it .
