La Repubblica: Francesco Profumo launches the OPIT university: “We work alongside the system”

Source: La Repubblica, also in physical edition from June 17th, 2024, page 1.

Written on June 17th, 2024 by Marta Borghese.

The former minister is the rector of the online university founded by Ocleppo from Turin: “Today we should go back to school more often”

By Marta Borghese, June 17th, 2024 at 02:00

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“Educational models are the products of the industrial revolutions in which they were developed”. In the ongoing revolution, where humans are interacting with machines capable of learning, “the speed of change and the uncertainty of the future require us to think of much more flexible models than in the past”.

Francesco Profumo, former Minister of Education with the Monti Government and now member of the European Innovation Council of the European Commission, speaks as rector of OPIT, Open Institute of Technology, the university founded by Riccardo Ocleppo from Turin and dedicated to Computer Science. A reality conceived in Turin – “a place of thought”, comments Profumo – but based in Malta and with a global spirit, which in the first year of its launch attracted 100 students from 40 countries.

Full article (in Italian) here: La Repubblica