'Viaggio in Italia: la Corte Costituzionale nelle scuole', students' work awarded

Videos, power points, paintings and installations inspired by the Constitution and the dissemination of its fundamental principles, with a focus on the rights of liberty, dignity of the individual and justice. They were made by the students of ten Italian schools involved in the project 'Viaggio in Italia: la Corte Costituzionale nelle scuole' ('Trip around Italy: the Constitutional Court in schools'), which in the course of the 2025-2026 school year has visited secondary schools in Lazio, Lombardy, Veneto, Sicily, Apulia, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Campania, where the constitutional judges have personally visited for a meeting and discussion with the students.

This morning the award ceremony at the Palazzo della Consulta for the ten works. The commission in charge of examining them, chaired by Constitutional Judge Angelo Buscema, decided to award ex aequo - with separate motivations - the ten works sent by the schools to the Court "because they are all worthy in terms of expressive capacity, innovative language and choice of content". The constitutional judges' journey began at the Giulio Cesare high school in Rome and ended at the Torquato Tasso high school in Salerno, passing through the Luigi Galvani state high school in Bologna and the Regina Margherita state high school in Palermo.

"We all had the impression of great interest on the part of the students," Consulta President Giovanni Amoroso said in his greeting, "and we also received this feeling of participation and sharing. It is important that institutions go to schools to participate, inform and talk about the Constitution, which is our founding pact of living together'.

The project, born during the years of Paolo Grossi's presidency and reproposed several times, will continue in the 2026-2027 school year in the other regions not yet reached by the new edition of the Court's 'Journey through Italia'. For the undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Merit, Paola Frassinetti, 'it is a valuable initiative to bring young people closer to the values and principles of the Constitutional Charter, foster their civil growth, develop a sense of legality, commitment to democracy and participation', and added that 'it is a bridge between institutions and new generations'.