In collaboration with SORGENIA
Date:
April, 12th
The workshop challenges students to create a video storytelling concept that links the themes of disability and energy in an innovative and impactful way, developing a message that celebrates strength, inclusion, and sustainability. Students will work on designing an effective narrative format, capable of conveying emotion, inspiration, and shared values. Students will work on a storytelling that combines the story of Bebe Vio with the concepts of energy and inclusion.
Project leaders:
Livio Milanesio
Communication Strategist and storyteller at WEDOO – Coordinator Academic Diploma Course Level 1 in Communication Design IAAD., Turin.
Simone Cannata
Professor in Digital Video and Multimedia Design, SAE
Partner Company: Sorgenia
Motivational Speaker: Bebe Vio – Fencing
Founded in 1999, Sorgenia is today one of the main energy operators in Italy, controlled by the infrastructure fund F2i Sgr and participated by Asterion Industrial Partners. Dedicated to sustainability and innovation, the company supports its clients in adopting tailor-made green solutions. Since 2019, it has been recognized as a Best Workplace.
Beatrice Maria Vio, born in Venice on March 4, 1997.
At the age of five she began to practice fencing, a sport that soon turned into a
great passion. After the illness that hits her in 2008, when she was 11 years old,
and which caused the amputation of both legs and hands, with the help of her
family and orthopedic technicians, Bebe manages to return to the fencing platform.
In the early months of 2010, she was able to make the first tests of wheelchair
fencing, becoming the first and only, still today, athlete in the world fencing without
arms.
She was torchbearer at the Paralympics of London 2012 carrying the paralympic
torch on the day of the opening of the Games.
In 2024 she participated in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics and,
subsequently, she was also the torch bearer at the opening ceremony of the Paris
Paralympics, the only one in the world to have taken part in the two opening
ceremonies in the same edition of these events.
Since 2011 she has won every year the Italian championships and since 2014 has
won all the international competitions to which she participated, in fact since then
she is first in the world ranking. In individual competitions she collected 3 individual
gold medals at the European Championships (2014, 2016 and 2018) and 4
individual gold medals at the World Championships (2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023).
At the Paralympic Games she won the gold medal at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 and
the bronze medal at Paris 2024, as well as several other medals in all the
international team competitions.
She was Global Ambassador of the Paralympic Games of Paris 2024 and will have
the same role at Milano Cortina 2026 as well as being the global testimonial of
some international brands such as Toyota, Nike, Sorgenia, Omega, Dior, L’Oreal
and Technogym.
She has published two books with eloquent titles: “They gave me a dream”, in
2015, and “If it seems impossible then it can be done”, in 2017, both of them best
sellers.
In the last years she has been on covers of Italian and international magazines and
took part in many television and radio broadcast. In 2017, she leads on Rai 1 the Tv
program “La vita è una figata” (Life is cool), in 10 episodes, while in 2018 she also
got in touch with the cinema in one the most important movie of the year, “The
Incredibles 2″ of Disney-Pixar, dubbing in Italian a new heroine, Vojd. But from that
moment on she preferred to reduce her media appearances as much as possible to
avoid possible overexposure.
After her illness, together with her parents 15 years ago she founded art4sport
Onlus, a no-profit association that aims to help amputee children and young people
to enjoy the beauty of life and help them integrate into society through sports. Its
mission is also to promote inclusion through sport with different projects and international events.
The most important are the WEmbrace movement, based on three annual events,
and the Bebe Vio Academy, an inclusive multi sport academy where kids with disability play sports together with kids without disability.
Her dream? in a not too distant future, you will be able to walk into any gym and see Olympic and Paralympic athletes training together, next to each other.
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