The Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma brings a day of discussion and discovery to La Nuvola, dedicated to high school students from Rome and the Lazio region. Together with Skuola.net, this immersive and interactive experience explores the big questions of the moment and the opportunities arising from the intersection of health, artificial intelligence, technology, nutrition, and sustainability..
The Rector Rocco Papalia: «Preparing the professionals of the future means putting people at the center of innovation».
Rome, October 22 2026 – Over 1.400 high school students from Rome and Lazio gathered today at the Rome Convention Center La Nuvola for HUMAN, +Ideas, people and innovations of the professions of the future, the initiative of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, created in collaboration with Skuola.net. An immersive and interactive experience that guides young people through the transformations reshaping the present and opening new perspectives for the future. Through engagement with the major challenges of science, technology, and innovation, HUMAN invites students to question their aspirations, explore new professional horizons, and make more informed university choices.
How is personal care changing in the age of technological medicine? What will we eat in 2050? What should we avoid delegating to machines? How will our relationship with food and the planet's resources change? And what skills will really make a difference? human, Orientation moves beyond the classroom and beyond the traditional presentation of degree programs to offer young people a valuable hands-on experience. It places them at the center of the major scientific, technological, and social issues that are reshaping the present and anticipating the future.
The event, organized in collaboration with Skuola.net, a leader in Italy for student services, will encourage young people to personally reflect on their future. Each of the four acts, focusing on Health, technology, digital, artificial intelligence, food and sustainability, work and identity It will be built around a question that will directly involve young people, alternating moments of dissemination, discussion, and interaction. Young people will be able to express their opinions and test themselves thanks to questions, surveys, and challenges launched by a Live Challenge.
The construction of a “Future Profile” The morning will conclude, translating the experience into an opportunity for personal reflection and orientation. Through narrative feedback, students will be guided to recognize their own interests, the attitudes and aspirations, connecting them with what emerged from the meeting with professionals from different fields. The opportunity to gain a close-up understanding of daily work, the responsibilities, opportunities, and difficulties associated with different roles will provide them with new insights into the skills requests, confronting one's own inclinations and imagine possible scenery professionals. The goal is to help them look to the future with greater awareness, enhancing their own characteristics and developing new questions and food for thought to guide subsequent educational and university choices.
HUMAN interprets the model of integral and transversal training of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, which combines scientific preparation, a multidisciplinary approach, and individual attention, recognizing the value of an education capable of supporting young people not only in the development of skills, but also in the maturation of an informed view of the world and their own future.
"HUMAN" It was born from the desire to offer young people an experience that goes beyond the traditional presentation of university courses», explains the Rector UCBM, prof. Rocco Papalia that holds the top spot. "We live in a constantly evolving world, in which artificial intelligence, robotics, medical and engineering advances, as well as innovations in nutrition and sustainability, are transforming professions and our way of life. These changes open up extraordinary possibilities, but they also raise questions that require judgment and a sense of responsibility.».
With this event, we want to offer young people an experience that empowers them, stimulates critical thinking, and helps them question the future they want to build. The challenge is to help them become professionals capable not only of knowing and using increasingly advanced tools, but also of understanding their potential and limitations, collaborating with others, and putting their skills to work to meet the real needs of individuals and society. For this reason, people must remain at the center, and technology must always be a means, not an end.», concludes the Rector.
«Orientation does not mean indicating a path already traced, but helping each student to recognize his own. With "HUMAN" by Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma We share a clear choice: starting from the young people to guide them towards new training and work opportunities, without ever losing sight of the centrality of the person. - he stressed Anna Paola Sabatini, General Director of the Regional School Office for Lazio - Schools and universities must join forces on this: to transform the vision of the future into a plan for a conscious and responsible life."
In the afternoon, the appointments of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma at La Nuvola they continue, starting from 16pm, with “Shaping What's Next – Giving shape to the future”, a free meeting open to the academic, research, and business worlds. At the heart of the event is the Doctoral School UCBM and its strategic role in creating a link between master's degree programs, cutting-edge research, and technology transfer. The guest of honor will be the American scientist Dennis C. Liotta, internationally known for his contribution to the development of innovative drugs in the fight against AIDS, who will hold a keynote lectureThe program also includes Two round tables dedicated to the relationship between research and innovation and opportunities for collaboration between universities and businesses, with an in-depth look at the challenges of knowledge and technology transfer and how to translate research results into concrete applications and impact on society.
