FICTS – Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs takes the field with young people on Friday April 15th, 2016 at the Arena Brera in Milano (Italy), at the conclusion of the activities in the Schools (period October 2015 – March 2016) and the “Week of Sport for All” with “MAXIMARCIA OF 2016 OLYMPIC YEAR” (departure at 9 a.m.), opened to all ages citizens, in Parco Sempione around 2 km away in free walk, with free entrance and free submissions to which, in addition to students of secondary and primary schools public and private schools of Milano, will join – in a spirit of real integration – 30 organizations from as much countries. The performances by the Band of the Air Force Command and of Military School “Teuliè” as well as the launch of 5.000 balloons with the Olympic colors will open the event.
The event will conclude the 53rd “Trofei di Milano 2016 – The educational process in school” (42.330 students from 228 schools), including interscholastic sports and training activities divided into five areas – Sport, Culture, Education, Food and Health. Trofei, unique event in Italy for feedback and approval for “Sport in school”, from 1964 till today, has recorded the participation of 3 million two hundred thousand students through an initiative totally devoid of any profit.
In addition to different sport and educational activities in the open air in Sempione Park, the final of the relay races – under the slogan “The relay race makes of the person a team” (13-14-15 April 2016) – will be held at Arena Brera in Milan, as part of the “Week of Sport Olympic Year” promoted by FICTS that organized in 60 schools special projections in order to spread sport and fair-play culture, the Olympic values among young people within the Project “Sport Emotions: Culture through images”.
The Organizing Committee, chaired by Prof. Franco Ascani, will assign the “Giuseppe Rovelli Award – 96 years of Sport”, the “Master” who initiated thousands of young people to the wonderful world of sport and its values. Torchbearer until the last edition of the “Trophies of Milan”, was World Champion Master Athletics 2014.
The initiative, organized by FICTS Italia a.s.d., the AICS under the patronage of the Regional School for Lombardy, Esercito Lombardia, the Lombardy Region, the Metropolitan City of Milan, Milan City Council, Italian NOC, FIDAL and the support of the “Centrale del Latte di Milano”, aimed to the increase in the intellectual capacity of young people covering, such as human growth factor, a role in the formation of character and education of the individual: environmental sustainability, development of creativity, acquisition of social experiences and relational.