WIRED: CHIARA SCHETTINO, AMICA GENIALE DELLA SILICON VALLEY

SOLE 24ORE: GLORIA CHIOCCI INTERVISTA JACOPO MELE

MILLIONAIRE: IL TALENTO È DAPPERTUTTO, LE OPPORTUNITÀ NO

NUVOLA - CORRIERE DELLA SERA: CON AURORA PER DIVENTARE IMPRENDITORI DEL FUTURO

LA STAMPA: NASCE AURORA, IL PROGRAMMA EUROPEO CHE ALLENA I FUTURI GAME CHANGER

To know to know nothing “I know I don’t know, but I don’t know what I don’t know… Confusing uh?“

Minimize regrets - every break is lost

Longest way round is the shortest way home

 Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Everything is a big "it depends"

Some want to be astronauts, others want almost everyone to become astronauts

Do what makes you happy

Can music and robotics work alongside each other?

Listen carefully and act roughly.

"The Adventure Is Over There"

Traveling and listening: my formula for discovering the world

A Lifetime Curriculum

Discuss to enrich yourself: exchange is at the basis of solutions

Let your actions speak for you

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." Winston S. Churchill

 Be curious

Empathy, resilience and persistence

What's next?

No problem can be solved through the same level of consciousness that created it

1 + 1 is equal to 3

"Travelers are gonna save the world"

Per aspera ad astra - Through hardships to the stars

Social progress and economic efficiency

Once you stop learning, you start dying

Thirst for knowledge

No pain, no gain

Let opportunities transform you into the change you'd like to see

Learn today, lead tomorrow

Listening and observation: the keys for growing up

To make your dreams come true, you need to make your plans come true

We are all born on Earth, but some of us only to reach the moon

Do it, don't think twice!

Yes Theory

Imagine, how could the verb “to love” be pronounced  tomorrow?

Great GOALS cannot be achieved with mediocrity, so wake up!

One must remain positive and make the best of each moment, even the hardest ones

Diversity is not how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness

The best things in life lay on the other side of terror

Volenti nihil difficile

The real winner is not who doesn't fall but who, despite the worst of falls, finds the strength to get up

Doing good, even how to do it counts

There is always an alternative method, just look at things from a different perspective.

Life is like riding a bike, to keep your balance you must keep moving (A. Einstein)

In pursuit of magic

Pourquoi pas?

Earth without art is just eh

Find what feels good.

Italian outside, European inside

Ad maiora semper

Live, know and listen to the whole world… it will be your friend, teacher and lover.

Homo faber fortunae suae

You can make it if you try

"Bring me the sunflower wild with light." (Eugenio Montale)

 Grana lover

I am not looking for a place in the world, but I aspire to make the world my place

**About us**

**Testimonials**

You can participate in Aurora's Fellowship, even if you are working or studying. The only requirement is that you are under the age of 23. 

You don't have to give up **anything**

**Do you need clarification**?

An unmissable opportunity for young people under 23 to discover their passions and realise personal projects

the project that connects talent with opportunity

We're **Aurora Fellows**

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**Our Fellows**

At a crucial time in your future, experience **a unique opportunity** to:

THE AURORA FELLOWSHIP BOOSTS YOUR GROWTH

Marketing wizard?/n Aerospace engineer?/n Sophisticated philosopher?/n It's all about you. /n It's all about the future. /n We want to see you shine

TELL US ABOUT IT

What is your **talent**?

Talent is everywhere.\nOpportunities are not.

Giulia

Writing the motivational letter in my fifth year of high school was like digging into myself. It was a time of great indecision: it was the right time to gather my ideas and clarify them. By writing, I found a why to my college choice.

"Aurora's Experience?\n More **enriching** than I thought!"

Daniele

I started out confident and hopeful, but I found several difficulties. The key to overcoming them was getting to know my interlocutors thoroughly first, understanding what I could give them.  You have to be extremely authentic. Making yourself known, telling your story with honesty, so that the professionals you meet will fully understand your motivation.

"Humility and patience:\nThat's how I got the two endorsements."

Davide

I often tell people close to me about my adventures as a Fellow. Aurora is an inspiring ecosystem, so many would like to apply for the Aurora Experience. Two of my friends and a friend of mine have already taken part in the selection process!  It gives me joy to share this experience with them. I try to answer any question they ask me without denying them the pleasure of autonomy, because it's right that everyone should experience the Aurora experience as a continuous discovery.

"Aurora is like an ongoing discovery."

Mathilde 

Aurora puts young people at the center. It gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential.  I see Aurora as an accelerator. What I could learn in ten or twenty years, I will focus in a personalized, self-contained path in less than three years.

" Aurora is perfect to accelerate your own growth."

Pierluigi

Thanks to the Fellowship, I think I can grow a lot. I want to be a "technician" in the future, but I don't want to deprive myself of experiences in other areas. On the contrary, I want to learn even what is far from me. I know that Aurora can give me a great support in this, putting me in contact with ambitious people like me.

"Learning a lot, challenging myself, finding new friends."

Chiara

I will try to meet extraordinary people, such as Bill Gates, but also Liliana Segre or Esther Duflo, the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics.  And then I'm obsessed with innovation. I'll see how to organize myself to travel and participate in innovation tours, to discover the most innovative realities in China, USA and Israel.

"What am I going to do with €10k in funding?\nInnovation and exceptional meetings."

Giacomo

The value of relationships is critical. It is relationships that add value. Aurora's Wizards are amazing people to ask, to engage with, to learn from. This has tremendous value.

"It goes straight to the point. Real, inspiring comparisons."

Anna

Interviewing a Wizard, we got to talking about what it means to be a woman today. She told me that if she hadn't had the courage to ask, she probably wouldn't have had the same career. /nIt can be harder for young women to achieve goals. Sometimes girls have qualms about putting themselves forward, perhaps out of modesty. So positive role models are needed.

"You are a young  woman, have the courage to ask."

Filippo

n my first few months as an Aurora Fellow, I took the opportunity to meet all the Wizards. All of them. Out of pure curiosity and because I am convinced that everyone could give me something important.  So much advice, so much availability and so much support. For me it was very important to find myself immersed in the ecosystem of Wizards. One day I met a philosophy professor, the next a marketing super consultant.   This diversity is one of Aurora's core values.

"From philosophy to AI: many different stimuli for enormous value."