Fuori festival 2026: voices, formats and ideas to understand the present and imagine the future

As usual, ample space will be reserved for financial education: the appointment with Young Finance, the Il Sole 24 ORE project to introduce young people to the management of money, investments, and their economic future, returns; Aminata Gabriella Fall, financial divulger and consultant, founder of pecuniami, will also speak about financial education. On the labour market and new generations front, the professionals from L'Esperto Risponde of the Il Sole 24 ORE Group will guide the audience through opportunities, incentives for start-ups and the strategic use of social media as a promotional tool. Space will also be given to corporate communication: in a constantly evolving market, the brand becomes a competitive lever and a tale of the future. Among others, Stefania Siani, CEO and COO of Serviceplan Italia, will tell the story through experiences ranging from industry to the media.

One of the most significant strands of the Fuori Festival will be dedicated to the social economy: meetings whose protagonists will help the public reflect on the extent to which the economy can be a tool for regenerating communities and building new forms of cohesion: we will talk about rights, proximity welfare, and international cooperation through a plurality of perspectives and experiences that reflect the Festival's deepest vocation, to interpret the economy in all its forms, restoring its complexity without giving up concreteness.
The disclosure finally extends to the valorisation of diversity as a resource and as a key to understanding contemporary complexity. Luca Trapanese, writer, activist, and social entrepreneur, will lead a reflection on the themes of parenting, inclusion, and new forms of family through sharing his experience as a single father of a little girl with Down syndrome.

Space is also given to culture, literature and their relationship with young people, the real protagonists of this edition. Edoardo Prati, a student and content creator with millions of followers, represents a generation of storytellers capable of bringing young people closer to the classics and culture with contemporary languages and formats. Culture is also aesthetics, creativity and economic value. This is the heart of the appointments with the Economy of Beauty curated by HTSI Director Nicoletta Polla Mattiot, who this year will explore how new cultures, artistic languages and emerging sensibilities, represented by the talents of content creator Martina Levato and trapper Villabanks, produce new value.

Finally, the Fuori Festival 2026 opens up to a look at the cultural and creative industries, with a focus on cinema: special guest will be Aurelio De Laurentiis, one of the leading players in the Italia film system.

Talking about economics today increasingly means talking about quality and lifestyles. This is why 24 ORE Salute, the Il Sole 24 Ore Group initiative dedicated to health and medicine, is also present at the Fuori Festival with appointments dedicated to biological rhythms and their impact on individual performance, daily practices for building a healthy life, and the growth and development of adolescents and children. Bringing these topics to the stage in four interesting appointments, together with Radio 24 journalist Nicoletta Carbone, will be experts such as Roberto Manfredini from the University of Ferrara, a researcher and expert in chronobiology and circadian medicine, Stefano Rossi, a psychopedagogist and one of the most authoritative voices in Italian pedagogy, and Mike Maric, a doctor, former world apnea champion and populariser of breathing and performance science.

In a Festival aimed at young people, attention will be paid to the educational dimension thanks to the renewed collaboration with MUSE - Trento's Museum of Science, whose spaces will open up to children and families for workshops, playtimes and interactive paths dedicated to science, creativity, economics and sustainability. Three days of events and activities, among the indoor halls and the greenery of the MUSE Park, realised thanks to the contribution of Fondazione Caritro and Feduf, the Fondazione per l'Educazione Finanziaria e al Risparmio (Foundation for Financial and Savings Education), which will help the youngest to reflect on their relationship with money, to think about savings and work, with a specific focus on gender equality. The appointment to discover comics with the illustrator and cartoonist Danilo Barozzi is back, and this year it takes place in a completely new setting: the rich programme curated by the Andromeda art studio - a long-standing partner of the event - moves in fact to the green area of the MUSE.

Attention to cultural languages fuels the usual rich programme of evening events dedicated to music and entertainment designed to bring experiences and generations into dialogue. Space is given to classical music: Maestro Uto Ughi returns and young emerging talents such as the Cello Generation ensemble and the Twin Violins Mirko and Valerio Lucia, musicians representing a new generation that combines technique, energy and vision.

Alongside classical music, the programme opens up to pop music and the contemporary pop scene with the presence of Arisa, a singer-songwriter, one of the most recognised on the Italia scene in recent years, and singer Angelica Bove, a revelation of the last Sanremo.

Finally, live entertainment continues with appointments with theatre and comedy, thanks to the collaboration with Zelig Lab, one of Italy's leading comedy workshops. The star of the first evening will be Stefano Belisari, better known to the general public as Elio, interviewed by Giancarlo Bozzo, one of the souls of the historic Milanese project, in a spectacular format accompanied by the notes of Alberto Tafuri's piano. For the second evening, a comedy marathon is scheduled, starring Federico Basso, Nuzzo Di Biase, Federica Ferrero, Leonardo Manera, and Francesco Migliazza, with the expert conduction of Davide Paniate.

The Fuori Festival is also an opportunity to meet and interact with all the newspapers and media of the Il Sole 24 ORE Group, who move to Trento to report from the territory on the days of the Festival and propose live events.

The beating heart of all the activities of the Il Sole 24 ORE Group will be, this year, Piazza Fiera, which will host Radio 24, the Fuori Festival Lounge and Casa Sole.

Radio 24's studio-stage will be present this year in a completely new guise, from which live broadcasts and programmes with the most popular presenters will be produced. This is also where the live podcasts of 24Ore Podcast will take shape in the evening from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., bringing to the stage one of the most innovative languages of contemporary information through the productions of Radio 24 and Il Sole 24 Ore, and some live events: the live show of the duo Off Topic, the performance of the tribute rock band Ciappter Ileven, and the DJ set that will close the cycle of evening events of the Fuori Festival on Saturday 23 May.

Radio 24 is also in the theatre: don't miss Nessun Luogo è Lontano, with Giampaolo Musumeci and Beppe Salmetti, and great expectations for Giuseppe Cruciani and David Parenzo in an appointment on the future of podcasts with Fedez and Mr Marra.

The Fuori Festival Lounge will instead be the venue for some of the main Fuori Festival events.

Finally, Casa Sole will make its debut in Piazza Fiera, a space designed as a hub for meeting and dialogue with the public. Casa Sole will be the space where to get to know and meet all the realities of the Il Sole 24 ORE Group, which will present itself in Trento for the first time with its new brand identity, inaugurated with the new naming that puts the Sun back at the centre and a new logo that enhances the history, identity and variety of the Group. And a space where readers can participate in the engagement initiatives designed specifically for them: from the Sole's prize wheel to the Expert Responds box to the gadgets designed for the Opinion Reader community, the loyal readers of Sole 24 Ore who, once again this year, will be meeting in Piazza Pasi for the morning press review with the Sole 24 Ore deputy editors.

Also new this year is the presence of IlSole24OreTV, which will closely follow the events, appointments and protagonists of the Festival and Fuori Festival to take the schedule beyond the stages and locations, with a continuous video narration of live, backstage and stories, including original formats and dedicated content.

One of the programme schedules most appreciated by the public is that of the Meetings with the Author, a privileged space for dialogue between books, ideas and current events that also in 2026 will host some of the most authoritative voices in journalism, economics, savings and culture thanks to the renewed collaboration with many Italian publishers. Among the protagonists will be Claudio Cerasa and Mario Calabresi; Franco Gabrielli and Carlo Bonini;

Giovanni Bazoli and Tommaso Arenare; Andrea Colamedici and Marianna Aprile, Mariangela Pira and Serena Mazzini, Massimo Scaglioni, Linus and Massimo Beduschi, Luca Mari, French-Indian economist Navi Radjou and bookmaker Megi Bulla.

Ideas that are strengthened thanks to the quality of the offer and the strength of their narrative. In this framework, the work of all the media partners is fundamental, enabling the Festival's reputation to be further enhanced, both in Italia and abroad: the Dutch daily De Telegraaf; the Spanish El Economista; the English Financial Times; the LinkedIn Notizie platform; the Danish daily Politiken; Sky TG24; the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun and the Chinese Wenhui Daily.

Confirming the recognition that companies attribute to the event's formula, the 2026 edition of the Trento Festival of Economics registers a further increase in the number of Partner adhesions: 53 companies have already been confirmed.

TOP PARTNERS in 2026 are: CONFCOOPERATIVE, ENEL, INTESA SANPAOLO.

MAIN PARTNERS are: ANGELINI PHARMA, AUTOSTRADE PER L'ITALIA, GRUPPO FS, ITAS MUTUA, MUNDYS.

OFFICIAL PARTNERS are ABI - ASSOCIAZIONE BANCARIA ITALIANA, ACEA, ALES ARTE LAVORO E SERVIZI, AMPLIFON, AUTOSTRADA DEL BRENNERO, BANCOMAT, CASSA DEPOSITI E PRESTITI (CDP), CERVED, CONAI - CONSORZIO NAZIONALE IMBALLAGGI, CONOU - NATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF USED MINERAL OILS, DLA PIPER, DOLOMITI ENERGIA, ENGINEERING, FINCANTIERI, IMQ GROUP, INPS, JEEP®, REKEEP, RINA, SACE, SIMEST, SNAM, TERNA, UNI ENTE ITALIANO DI NORMAZIONE, UNIEURO, UNIVERSITÀ LUISS GUIDO CARLI, VEOLIA.

SUPPORTERS are: ARVEDI, BONELLIEREDE, CONSORZIO DI TUTELA MOZZARELLA DI BUFALA CAMPANA DOP, GETRA, MUSE, POLTRONA FRAU, PORSCHE CONSULTING, RUMMO, STARTING FINANCE and UNIVERSITY BOX.

ANDREA BOCELLI FOUNDATION - ENTE FILANTROPICO and FONDAZIONE CARITRO have once again chosen to be protagonists as partners of the FUORI FESTIVAL.

The Trento 2026 Festival of Economics is also realised in collaboration with the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PUBLIC FUNCTION, INVITALIA, THE EUROPEAN UNION - NEXTGENERATIONEU, IRCCS HOSPITALS ISTITUTO CLINICO HUMANITAS AND HUMANITAS SAN PIO X.

Among them are several partners who, in the squares and in some locations of the Festival, will curate events that will further expand the already rich offer of events.

In Piazza Duomo, the public will see a renewed appointment with the talks organised by Confcooperative on key topics such as agribusiness, sustainability, innovation, work and welfare, while the European Parliament and European Commission will host meetings and moments of dialogue with civil society and stakeholders.

In Piazza Fiera, Dolomiti Energia will have an information space to talk about renewable energy, sustainability and decarbonisation, and INPS will be present with an information and advice point on its institutional services.

In Piazza Cesare Battisti, on the other hand, the new home of Autostrada del Brennero will project visitors into the near future of mobility along the A22, starting from the origins of its foundation and the strong territorial identity that still distinguishes it today, and the Civil Service Department, in collaboration with Invitalia, will present some of the key projects for a public administration allied with citizens and businesses, attractive to new generations and able to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow: sUAP and SUE digitalisation, simplification of administrative procedures, reform of public work through strategic management of human resources based on skills.

Finally, JEEP® will be present in Piazza Fiera and Piazza Battisti with its own models on display. Among the events that will be held in some of the Festival locations, Autostrade per l'Italia will bring the exhibition 'Italia in movimento. Autostrade e futuro', curated by MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo. The exhibition offers a journey that recounts the strategic role of motorway infrastructure, interweaving history, architecture, landscape and visions for the future.

The motorway is thus reinterpreted not only as a work of engineering, but also as a cultural infrastructure and an enabling factor of contemporary mobility, capable of profoundly influencing the development of the territory and the way in which we live and move every day.

Angelini Academy will offer the audience a reflection on the evolution of corporate training, nowadays necessary to meet the challenges of the future labour market: from new pedagogies to the critical and conscious use of artificial intelligence, from innovative managerial skills to the role of humanistic studies. ITAS Mutua, thanks to the voices of expert disseminators, will guide the audience through a discussion on the value of financial, insurance and pension education in order to recognise reliable content in a world that talks a lot about money, often without the right foundations. The meeting organised by DLA Piper and dedicated to exports, tariffs and new global balances and the most effective commercial and legal strategies for companies will also be back. Unieuro will be present with an initiative dedicated to the young people of the #cuoriconnessi project, for 10 years a reference point for a conscious use of the web and technology and against cyberbullying. Veolia, on the other hand, will emphasise the need to make ecological security a shared priority among all stakeholders in order to build concrete alliances capable of combating climate change and guaranteeing a sustainable future. In this scenario, the involvement of the younger generation is crucial to accelerate a change in which digital innovation supports human capital and skills as drivers of transition.

Poltrona Frau will be a partner of the Festival, contributing to the setting up of the main halls with twelve iconic Intervista armchairs, designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli and upholstered in Pelle Frau® leather, bringing the excellence of Italian design and craftsmanship to the spaces of the event.

Lastly, Fondazione Caritro is renewing its commitment to raising the awareness of new generations on financial education issues through workshops and inspirational talks, as well as opening a focus on gender equality in the world of work.

Festival and Fuori Festival are organised for the fifth consecutive year by the Il Sole 24 ORE Group and Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento and with the collaboration of the Municipality and University of Trento.

For information:

IL SOLE 24 ORE GROUP PRESS OFFICE: Ginevra Cozzi, 335 1350144, ginevra.cozzi@ilsole24ore.com;

Elettra Occhini, 348 8910904, elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com

PRESS OFFICE PROVINCE OF TRENTO: Giampaolo Pedrotti, 335 7611026, Martina

Valentini 338 9180001, Stefano Voltolini 333 4902087, USPAT.festeconomiatrento@gmail.com

TRENTO ECONOMY FESTIVAL PRESS OFFICE: ufficiostampa@festivaleconomia.it, Tel. 0461.497930