Ania and consumers relaunch insurance education

"Insurance education," explains Giovanni Liverani, president of Ania, "is the lever to reduce the underinsurance gap that separates us from other European countries. We have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Education and Merit precisely to increasingly promote insurance education among the girls and boys who will be tomorrow's breadwinners. The initiatives of the Forum and the Ania Foundation are part of the overall path decided by Ania to strengthen the presence of insurance in Italian society, to make it the powerful tool it already is elsewhere to solve major socio-economic problems such as, for example, the consequences of an ageing population, of denatality or of natural catastrophes, to which our area is very exposed. Let us start with the new generations to spread the value of protection and insurance to prevent risks or mitigate the consequences of adverse events'.

"Education in the field of insurance is fundamental," explains Maria Bianca Farina, president of the Ania Foundation and the Ania-Consumers Forum, "because it helps people to better understand risks and how to deal with them. Through insurance one can plan one's life better, knowing that one has the means and tools, including economic ones, to deal with any difficulties. For these reasons we will never tire of telling young people how powerful and useful the insurance tool is and, at the same time, we will never tire of telling them how important it is, for them too, to learn more about insurance: a system based on mutuality, which allows you to have a great advantage with a very limited cost, sheltering you from events that could, on the other hand, disrupt your life even financially,' Farina adds. Precisely in order to get closer to young people, as the Ania Foundation, this month we have decided to initiate a dialogue with high school students through the 'Meglio Ora' project: in selected institutes in Turin, Milan and Naples we are talking to students about important and fundamental issues such as prevention, health protection and the promotion of correct lifestyles'.