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A life lesson with Jabbar

At the Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum, NBA champion says: «Taking your time is getting your future: be ready to seize your chance»

Sports, Islam, Obama and Trump: in his speech at the Oscar Pomilio Forum Blumm, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talked about his career as basketball champion but also as cultural critic, acute interpreter of our times.

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Meantime: between project and action

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the champion who reinvented the sport in 3 seconds, at the Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum

From imagination to action, from saying to doing, from theory to implementation: in the middle, there is a bridge-space, where the mind breathes, thinks, plans, organizes, produces. What is the value of this “gap”? Can “taking time”, in our time, be considered as a brave act? Can the "meantime" become a new "incubator of future"? These questions will animate the next edition of the Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum, focused on the theme “The meantime. Starting over from thought: between planning and action”.

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SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

Neuroprotection of the visual system: on October 7, a joint meeting in Rome

The Gemelli Hospital Foundation hosts a conference to illustrate developments and prospects in the field of the visual system neuroprotection. Among the speakers, Benedetto Falsini, winner of the Ethic Award Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum 2014

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Communicating values

A growing international commitment for Pomilio Blumm

New challenges, new territorial contexts but identical determination and mission: giving value to ideas. Pomilio Blumm presents its 2016 social budget 

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Art and business

The Renaissance of Italian industry

A video about the union between art and industry, realized by Pomilio Blumm, to accompany Vincenzo Boccia taking office as the new president of the General Confederation of Italian Industry

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Ethics and enterprise

Italian entrepreneurs have a new guide

All’Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum 2012, il neo-presidente designato di Confindustria parla di etica e impresa, con un inedito rinvio al valore che di lì a poco avrebbe segnato la comunicazione italiana: la bellezza

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Happiness that heals

The therapeutic power of art

The 2016 Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum hosted also the therapeutic supervisor of the rehab community San Patrignano: «That is how we teach young people to find happiness in the little things»

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Ethics and citizenship

Sweden's Minister of the Future at the Oscar Pomilio Forum

An innovative model of citizen-caring will be at the heart of 2016 Oscar Pomilio Forum, the annual event dedicated to ethics. Special guest: from Sweden, the Minister of the Future Kristina Persson, spokesperson of a possible revolution based on happiness

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The value of diversity

Between anthropology and communication

A new edition of the Oscar Pomilio Forum is coming. As every year it welcomes and throws down a very specific challenge: to talk about ethics in a free and original way, through lateral and unexpected views. But for this reason, it is more prolific than any abstract reflection on the issue.

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The future of the past

OPF 2015: a journey between cultures

 “Culture takes diverse forms across time and space. This diversity is embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of the identities of the groups and societies making up humankind. As a source of exchange, innovation and creativity, cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature.” This is what Article 1 of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity says, officially recognizing that this is a value to be protected.

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