Younger generations will experience the most enduring outcomes of the ecological transition: the environmental, social and economic context shaped by today’s decisions will affect them most significantly. The transition therefore has both an ecological and a generational dimension: these are inseparable.
Young people today are highly aware of the urgency of climate change. They are calling for their voices to be heard, as the decisions taken today will have an impact on their future. We respond to this generational call through an open, equal dialogue, free from any paternalistic overtones.
The ecological transition is transforming plants, networks and production processes. But it is also reshaping how a society understands itself and makes collective decisions. A new energy and circular model can only operate at scale if people understand how it works, can discuss it and recognise its underlying logic.
Younger generations already have this awareness. They are growing up with the climate crisis as a given, and when they look at companies, they expect words to be reflected in concrete actions.
This is why we are committed to making content accessible, opening spaces for dialogue and developing sustainability-related skills: because a transition that is understood can be sustained over time. The starting point is not to explain what sustainability is, but to show how it works in industrial terms and what trade-offs it really entails.
Futuro in Circolo is a national education project launched in 2022, involving schools across Italy to promote sustainability at local level. In its first two years, it reached over 155,000 students and teachers across all levels of education (nursery, primary, lower and upper secondary schools, and universities). Through the Group’s Education programmes, 40,000 people have visited A2A’s plants across Italy.
Educational visits bring together students, experts and the Group’s technical professionals, offering a close-up view of essential services for local communities. In the 2024/2025 school year, more than 17,100 teachers and students visited our plants.
We support youth employment and career guidance towards transition-related professions: in 2025, in partnership with Deascuola, we launched the “Green Thinking” webinar series on AI and Green Jobs, integrated into School-to-Work pathways (FSL), which involved 18,551 students in the 2023–2024 two-year period.
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