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June 15, 2011
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- Last day of school for the Genoa Port Center
- In the school year just completed Exhibition Centre in the port of Genoa has been visited by almost 7,000 students
 During the school year just completed the Genoa Port Center (GPC), the exhibition center for the dissemination of the Mediterranean only created to acquaint the general public the reality of the port of Genoa, has welcomed more than 300 classes for a total of almost 7,000 students and 530 teachers. A positive balance achieved through the project "Citizens of Porto - second edition" funded by the Province of Genoa and Carige Foundation, which allowed the students of primary and secondary schools interested to visit the Center for free and take part in educational activities and laboratory.
- Visits to the Genoa Port Center combined with a boat tour of the port with the supervision by ad hoc scientific formats have been 244, while 46 classes have experienced laboratory activities on a theme.A great success was also recorded visits special thanks to a series of agreements with some great partners in the GPC (Customs Agency, the Port Authority, Port Authority, the pilot body, Ente Reservoirs, Old Mooring Group, Hydrographic Institute of Navy, MSC Cruises, Tugs Riuniti, Sech, Forwarding, Maritime Station VTE) over 80 classes of students have had the opportunity to access and learn all about the places where these companies operate, difficult to access areas where they are expressed by ordinary citizens every day in practice many occupations and professions that are "live" the port of Genoa. Last partner was to join with Grandi Navi Veloci an experimental project that has seen hundreds of young protagonists Education Centres for Work of the City of Genoa.
- The year 2011 also saw the launch of two important initiatives carried out under "Citizens of Porto - Second Edition": in collaboration with the "Free Age - Active Ageing", Carige Foundation, nearly 2,000 over-65s from the principal municipalities in the region have visited the Genoa Port Center, the Center also has "enlarged its borders to the Piedmont following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Province of Genoa and Alexandria to promote the enjoyment of the cultural center for groups adults and schools.
- "The aim which the Province has been given through the Genoa Port Center - said the President of the Province of Genoa, Alessandro Repetto - is to pass from the port at least once in their education of all students between now and Liguria 2015. We hope in this way to make our contribution to the growth of friendly and concerned citizens. " Today, two years of operation, the structure of Genoa has already received 15% of students in Genoa.
- "The citizens of the Port project - said the vice president of the Foundation Carige, Pierluigi Vinai - is a great opportunity for growth for students in Liguria, from both the educational and cultural point of view, and it is with this objective that supports the Foundation Carige . It is vital that children know the port, they can visit it and see with their eyes what do the hundreds of people who work there, discovering the many job opportunities it offers. At the same time, the project enables these new citizens to get closer physically to this place relatively unknown by making them aware of the economic, social, cultural, that is. "
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