The Perini Navi Group, world leader in the design as well as building of large sailing and motor yachts, has decided to reward young graduates who have written thesis on subjects that are relevant to the promotion of nautical products that are made in Italy by presenting two prizes to be awarded to students who earn their degrees in the courses promoted by the Comitato Leonardo.
Perini Navi and Comitato Leonardo reward young students
The Comitato Leonardo, currently directed by the entrepreneur Luisa Todini, was created in 1993 by the Senators Sergio Pininfarina and Gianni Agnelli, by The Italian industrial association Confindustria, by the ICE and by a group of other businessmen. The Comitato’s mission is to promote Italy as a whole through a series of initiatives that show entrepreneurial spirit, artistic creativity, culture and refinement and that are demonstrated in the country’s products and lifestyle.
The Prizes for Degrees program, first launched by the Comitato Leonardo in 1997, has already rewarded 100 top notch students for their work. There are nine associated companies who have supported the program in 2012 by creating eleven grants worth approximately 3,000 Euro each.
“The Perini Navi Group and all of the other companies in the committee, companies that are the apex of products that are made in Italy, all intend to support and promote the talent of the students who are the future of our economy,” said Luisa Todini. “The Prizes for Degrees program aims to give these students a space of their own by supporting the best and most worthy thesis that show the best in Italy today no matter in which industrial sector.”
The “Premio Perini Navi,” granted this year for the fifth time, will award two scholarships for a value of 3,000 Euro each.
The first prize, titled ” A Project for a Sailing Boat of over 40 m with Electric Propulsion,” will be awarded to students who study Architecture, Engineering or Design and will go to those projects that best transform the characteristics of a sailing vessel of a specific length and typology with a tradition propulsion system into a sailing vessel with an electric propulsion system.
The project will have to adhere to certain criteria: size, general arrangement plan, engine room requirements, tonnage, an electronically controlled sail plan, estimated wattage consumption, blueprint and cross section.
The technical accuracy and real life possibility of construction will also be taken into account based on construction techniques available currently.
The second prize, titled ” Management of resources and processes for the optimization of a project for a large yacht in terms of construction times and costs”, will be awarded to students of Engineering or Economics and Commerce. This prize will go to new thesis, to students who have already written their thesis or to students who have done research on new management techniques for projects on large vessels. The prize will look for ideas that focus on ways to optimize construction times and costs.
Particular attention will be paid to projects that show the most important phases for improvement, originality of methods and instruments, efficiency and real life application for outsourcing to both small and medium sized companies.
To qualify for either or both of the prizes one must fill out and send in the application along with the thesis and a summary of the thesis to the Segretaria Generale del Comitato Leonardo, Via Liszt 21, 00144 Rome no later that October 31, 2012.
The prize will be awarded in a Prizes for Degrees ceremony that will be held at the Quirinale specifically for the Leonardo Prizes. The President of the Italian Republic will also be present.
