Gianluca Ansalone talks with the young people of Fondazione Augurusa: “Green SIM brings together expertise and reignites in-depth debate on global issues”
May 4, 2026 – Gazzetta del Sud
“An idea shared out loud more than a year and a half ago is today a model recognized by the European Parliament, which has granted it its High Patronage, and which this April marks the launch of its third edition. Social Impact Manager is Fondazione Augurusa’s free Advanced Training program which, since spring 2025, has brought together in Calabria students, institutional representatives, professionals, entrepreneurs, academics, and researchers from Italy and abroad with a single goal: to train innovators capable of reinterpreting the paradigm of development through the lens of environmental and social impact, and of building initiatives that generate value. This has been the mission since the very first conceptual outlines of what SIM was meant to be, developed amid no shortage of challenges, but with the certainty of offering something that did not yet exist, and for which there was nonetheless a strong need. Social Impact Manager, and now its “Green” track, is what was missing from the training landscape, and thanks to Fondazione Augurusa, it is now the first of its kind in Italy.
This was stated by Gianluca Ansalone, a lecturer at Fondazione Augurusa and Head of Public Affairs & Sustainability at Novartis Italia, on the occasion of the presentation of his book “Estremi. Il mondo in bilico tra caos e polarizzazione” who recently took part in a discussion, moderated by journalist Maurizio Bonanno, with students and the press: «Experiences like Green SIM are enormously useful for two reasons. The first is that they bring people together: they bring together sensibilities, experiences, consciences. The second is that they encourage the kind of in-depth debate on substance that we have unfortunately lost. Here, people delve deeply, studying for days, for weeks, analyzing problems at their core and putting forward solutions».” …
