On the occasion of the inauguration of the Torino and Bardonecchia Athletes’ Villages, held on Wednesday 8 January, the President of the Torino 2025 FISU World University Games Organising Committee announced that he had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Matilde Lorenzi Foundation, which becomes a Charity Partner of the Torino 2025 World University Games
The mission is the dissemination of the founding values of the Matilde Lorenzi Foundation by the Torino 2025 Winter University World Games.
This collaboration envisages that for every paying ticket purchased to attend the Games and the Universiade Ceremonies, €1 will be donated to the Foundation, in order to give concrete support to the educational and training activities, meetings and seminars that the Foundation promotes to spread the principles of safety on the slopes, which are the same basic principles represented by the World University Games.
‘Being chosen as a Charity Partner of the Torino 2025 FISU World University Games is an important recognition for the mission of the Matilde Lorenzi Foundation,’ said Alfonso Lorenzi, Matilde’s father. ’We deeply believe in the need to promote a culture of safety in sport, so that no athlete, professional or amateur, ever has to face avoidable risks. The partnership with the Organising Committee will allow us to broaden the scope of our educational and training activities, creating awareness and offering concrete tools to prevent accidents. I am grateful to the entire Torino 2025 team for sharing our vision and for their commitment to making sport a safer place for all young people.’
‘For us, this is the most natural choice,’ said the President of the Torino 2025 FISU Games Organising Committee Alessandro Ciro Sciretti, ’because the profound sense of the Universiade is to protect the right of young people to practise sport safely and serenely, to be able to study and play sport and live their lives to the full without running avoidable risks. This 2025 edition of the FISU Games also invests a great deal in research into risk prevention in sport, so much so that we have organised an international conference, the WORLD CONFERENCE (to be held on 14 January at the Lingotto Conference Centre), which is part of a broader programme called SPRINT, an acronym for SPORT – RISK – INNOVATION – TECHNOLOGIES. SPRINT’s mission is precisely to make a concrete contribution to innovation in the field of sport, bringing together the world’s greatest minds that will discuss the most topical issues such as, among others, the massive diffusion of increasingly advanced medical devices worn by sportsmen and women to prevent accidents and preserve their health during their activities.
In this sense, meeting Alfonso Lorenzi and finding total harmony of intentions – obviously exacerbated on his part by the terrible event he experienced first-hand – made us feel it our duty to concretely support a project that touches us so closely such as the Foundation for Matilde.
We are confident that, however small, every contribution made by all sports enthusiasts who will attend the Universiade will be valuable in taking a step forward towards a safer world of sport for our children.’
