Are the entrepreneurs Silvano Pedrolo and Anna Fiscale The winners of the third edition of the International award for leadership and benevolence Joaquín Navarro-Vallsconferred during the official ceremony that took place on Monday afternoon in the Room of the Protomoteca dei Musei Capitolini In Rome, in the presence of important guests of the institutional, entrepreneurial, academic and religious world.
During the evening, recognition for a leadership was also conferred at the service of the country a Gianni Letta, Reference figure of Italian public life, whose authority, discretion and profound sense of the institutions have contributed significantly to the promotion of the common good.
The award is promoted by Biomedical University Foundationa non-profit organization that supports the University and the Bio-Medico Policlinico Campus Foundation in memory of Joaquín Navarro-Valls – doctor, journalist, historical spokesman for John Paul II – who this year celebrates ten years from his Constitution.
“Silvano Pedrolo and Anna Tiscale represent extraordinary models of how the company, innovation and solidarity can combine in a single, coherent vocation at the service of the person”, he said Alessandro Pernigo, President of the Biomedical University Foundation, “it is precisely this spirit that the Foundation intends to celebrate with the prize: to recognize personalities who embody a leadership oriented towards the common good, to the social responsibility and the treatment of the other, according to the idea of leadership-Benevolent developed by Navarro-Valls. For these reasons we considered a dutiful, in the year of our ten -year, to thank especially the friend Gianni Letta, who accompanied the fundamental stages of campus development with sensitivity and conviction, supporting a model of health, training and scientific research oriented to the service of the person ».
The ceremony, conducted by the journalist Lecce Safiariasaw the cardinal’s interventions Giovanni Battista Re, father Paolo Benanti, President of the Commission for Artificial Intelligence for information, e Chiara PertosaCEO Sitael and Angel Holding while the vice -president of the Foundation, Federico Eichberg, has outlined the conclusions.
The award is part of the broader commitment of the Biomedical University Foundation in favor of the formation of young talents, through the Study bags fund of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Romededicated to deserving and less wealthy students.
During the evening the general manager and CEO of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Andrea Rossi, presented the impact of fundraising, which will allow the assignment of 20 scholarships to total coverage of the university straight line. The Fundraising campaign continues to make an education of excellence accessible: each scholarship represents an investment in the person, in the community and in the future of our country.
Who are the winners
Silvano Pedrollo is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder and president of the Pedrollo Spa, a global leading company in the production of electropompe, present in over 160 countries with over 1300 employees. His vision has combined technological innovation and social responsibility, transforming the company into a development and dignity tool. Through the Pedrolo Foundation, he supported projects all over the world for access to drinking water, education and healthcare, contributing to the construction of over 1300 wells, schools and health facilities in developing countries. Awarded of prestigious awards – including the title of Knight of Labor and the great cross of the Order of San Gregorio Magno – Pedrolo Incarna an ethical and generative leadershipled by the common good and by a profound commitment to the last. “I am grateful to this recognition, which I mainly consider a stimulus to work to continue deserving it”, Pedrollo’s comment, “I dedicate it to my family and my employees who have joined me in the commitment, aware that bringing a little help to the world is a privilege we want to live up to. Therefore I consider it a duty and at the same time a gift: we find this energy in us even in daily work because it arises from the need to do more and more for others ».
Anna fiscal, born in 1988, he is founder and president of Quid project, social enterprise that combines sustainable fashion and work inclusion. Since 2013 Quid takes women with stories of personal and social fragility, transforming textiles of luxury and quality heads of luxury. THEinitiative today gives work to over 160 people, collaborates with more than 100 Italian and international brands and has recovered more than 2200 km of fabrics, affirming himself as a model of circular economy with a strong social impact.
Recognized nationally and internationally for her entrepreneurial commitment, Anna Fiscale received numerous prizes and was awarded in 2020 of the title of Knight to merit of the Italian Republic. His leadership, sober and determined, has been able to transform fragility into value and work into an instrument of rebirth, combining innovation, social justice and sustainability. «Receiving this award makes me extremely grateful and excited: an important recognition, which highlights how much the collective work we do in quid from more than 11 yearI is essential to create concrete redemption occasions for new life projects, through work, As a fundamental leverage of change for the individual and the company, “he said tax,” I am happy to be able to share this moment with my family, present at my side and with all the 160 collaborators who make the excellence that is recognized to us today “.
