Also this year the Antico Theater of Taormina hosted the 2025 edition of the Ceremony of delivery of degree diplomas who saw protagonists over 700 recent graduates of the three -year, master’s and single cycle courses and research doctors of unime. About 4 thousand people who have settled the various areas of the theater, from the steps to the audience.
“With profound pride – said the rector Giovanna Spatari by introducing the ceremony – I welcome everyone present in a timeless frame, an ideal stage for you young people who are preparing to begin a new adventure bringing with you a luggage full of years of commitment and sacrifice. In the years you have spent within our academic community, the university was a link between tradition and innovation to offer you more opportunities and has more opportunities and has it. Furthermore, welcomed important personalities such as the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. Yours, dear boys, was not only a path aimed at acquiring knowledge, but also a virtuous attempt to enlarge the cultural, ideological, geographical boundaries in a land capable of demolishing fences, always accustomed to welcoming and being a crossroads of peoples and experiences. Beyond what the rankings say, I remain fully convinced that our university is an active citizenship laboratory capable of preparing for a future to face with courage, resilience and with all the tools necessary to open up to the world. Unime is also a place of precious growth within which to learn that sense of community that represents the greatest figure of our commitment and sees us united in promoting respect and non -violence. The memory of Sara and Lorena, young girls full of dreams that today could have been among you in the stands to occupy a place that unfortunately will remain empty, spurs all of us to make us active sentinels ready to listen. I would like to thank all the people who supported you for the achievement of the graduation goal: first of all your families, who have placed their trust, your friends and teachers who accompanied you up here. Today it is time to celebrate, with the awareness that from tomorrow an important path awaits you, in an increasingly technological and cosmopolitan world, to be covered with concreteness, correctness and integrity. Do not forget your link with the University of Messina, your Alma Mater, I hope your journey will be full of discoveries and promises kept “.
Following the mayors of the cities of Messina and Taormina, Federico Basile and Cateno De Luca. Guests of honor of the ceremony were The journalist and scientific popularizer Gabriella Greison and the actor Claudio Castrogiovanni (appointed honorary partner of the former students of the University of the ‘Alumnime’ and awarded with a plaque), who was interviewed by the student Giulia Cavallaro, coordinator of ‘Universome’, the multifaceted head of the students of the University.
Gabriella Greison invited young graduates not to be afraid of making mistakes, encouraging them to embrace the beauty of change, a distinctive sign of what he called “a generation of courageous uncertainty” capable of chasing dreams without ever losing the coordinates of a place, Messina, fascinating and full of history.
Claudio Castrogiovanni, who recalled his past in the city of the Strait, spurred the boys to meet all the news that awaits them without ever forgetting that the university will represent a nucleus of fundamental emotions and experiences that will accompany them throughout their lives. Castrogiovanni, citing the short film ‘Invisible threads’ in which he played the professor met by the young woman Sara Campanella Just before being killed, he also stressed that it is important not to be afraid of going out and talking to someone about what you live or feel.
On stage, also, the Tightened team in the hull, led by the Caculty Advisor prof. Dario Miloneto date the only team to represent southern Italy at the Motostudent University World Cup held in Aragòn (circuit where he won – in 2021 – the Rookie category); The SSD Unime Ssd Teamamong the best Sicilian companies, the team has managed to carve out an important space on the national and international panorama of the last two years, with prestigious results, category, individual records and podiums or relay and the relay and the Team of the perfect project and vascular surgery, coordinated by prof. Filippo Benedettowhich work on the first Italian network composed of technology transfer offices in the life science sector in order to improve the quality of care for patients thanks to the integration of over 50 partners who compete synergistically to the creation of innovative services and the training of experts in the TTO.
To give the graduates to graduates, Dr. Laura Errizzoli (close in the hull), the students Emma Arcudi (SSD swimming team) and dr. Kevin Bonasera (Team of the perfect project and vascular surgery).
During the ceremony, the rector and Prof.ssa Maria Zappalàcoordinator of the master’s degree course in pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, they delivered their degree and the touch with the toga to the mother of Giovanni Paolo Barbera, a recent graduate of the Peloritano University who failed to prematurely miss last August.
The evening, which ended with the traditional launch of the touch, was animated by the well -known DJ Leo Lippolis, from executions to the violin and the valuable performances of the University Choir directed by the Masters Umberto and Giulio Arena.