Range Rover Academy: a lentil on the podium | Formulapassion.it

A duckweed, technically known as Lemna Minorit ended on podium of the second edition of Range Rover Leadership Academy, an initiative aimed at comparing the leadership of today and that of tomorrow. Nida, made up of Federico Covolan, Sara De Menech, Niccolò Ferrara and Davide Massetti, won the financial contribution of 10,000 euros made available by Jaguar Land Rover Italia to activate the realization of the project. At the base is an innovative idea aimed at creating the ProLemna start up and dedicated to the agricultural production system and to the use of duckweed to create a circular system capable of developing and achieving significant environmental, economic, social and nutritional objectives through a sustainable and resilient farming model.

Range Rover Leadership Academy, but there is also the Polytechnic of Turin

However, everything was possible thanks also to the collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin, which involved groups of students from the Master’s Degree in Systemic Design in the exploration of a new territory which, by definition, is oriented towards the future: that of Start Ups. In recent months, “planning in progress” has therefore dedicated itself to innovation and sustainability, with particular attention to issues linked to ethical and social values ​​and the potential offered by multidisciplinarity. The working groups had the opportunity to carry out their projects, meeting along the way with founders of innovative and promising technological Start Ups, as Leaders by Example. A constant and close collaboration which, through meetings, workshops, special events with start-ups and consolidated entrepreneurs, supported classroom activity throughout the year, allowing students to design with a truly “pioneering” approach.

Range Rover Leadership Academy: a panel of experts

The winner was declared an accredited jury of experts – including Marco Santucci, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover Italia and Stefano Corgnati, Rector of the Polytechnic of Turin – who carefully evaluated all the submissions, choosing as the winner the one from the most deserving group, taking into account, among the various evaluation parameters: validation of the problem, adequacy and quality of the project, social and environmental impact, roadmap and development prospects, quality of presentation. And among all, in fact, Lemna Minor climbed onto the podium which, thanks to the guidance of the project innovator Christian Racca and the coordination of Sys – Systemic Design Lab, a research center of the Polytechnic of Turin which will provide support, may one day become a promising project to a real start-up.

Marco Santucci, CEO Jaguar Land Rover Italy

“The result of this second edition confirms the trust that Range Rover places in today’s young people and leaders of tomorrow, considering their training a real corporate mission,” he said Marco Santucci, CEO Jaguar Land Rover Italy. “They are the ones who are creating, through their ideas, an increasingly sustainable future, consolidated by ethical and authentic values. The students, by presenting their start-ups, really demonstrated what potential there is behind these initiatives: a potential that already exists and which, thanks to this type of support, manages to emerge.”