Young people care about many issues, climate change, the environment, helping disadvantaged countries, they want to change the world and their generosity can make a difference. They are the target of the agreements signed today by the University of Trento to promote a culture of donation and volunteering. The University hopes to encourage the University community, and students in particular, to become blood and bone marrow donors.
Admo and Avis del Trentino are looking for new donor candidates, in particular among the young. Blood donors must be between 18 and 60, but bone marrow donors must be between 18 and 35 years old to help someone with leukemia or other serious blood cancers. Once you have joined the registry, you can continue do donate until the age of 55.
That is why today, at Palazzo Sardagna, Rector Flavio Deflorian signed two framework agreements with Admo Trentino (the bone marrow donors association), represented by president Ivana Pasqua Lorenzini, and with Avis (the association of Italian blood donors), represented by its president Elisa Viliotti.
Since 1992, when Admo Trentino was founded, there have been more than 100 donations from Trentino. A significant milestone, especially because bone marrow compatibility between donor and unrelated recipient is only 1 in 100,000.
Avis del Trentino was founded in 1995 and currently has 47 local chapters in the region. In 2021, thanks to 21,393 donors, it collected 24,252 blood donations.
With the agreements, the two associations will use their materials, equipment and staff to organize information campaigns and awareness raising activities in the university community, while UniTrento, for its part, will provide spaces and staff for various initiatives. As part of the agreements, the two associations and UniTrento can implement research projects and other activities of common interest (internships and degree awards). The University of Trento has appointed Barbara Poggio, Vice Rector for Equity and Diversity Policies, as a member of both coordination committees; Avis designated its president Elisa Viliotti, while Admo appointed Monica Fantini, who is the head of the association's communication division. Poggio and Fantini were also present today at Palazzo Sardagna. The task of the coordination committees is to identify collaboration opportunities and to monitor common initiatives.
Both agreements have a duration of three years and can be renewed.
The framework agreements are the result of the productive relationship established over the years by the University of Trento with the two associations. The research project on the social report of Avis del Trentino, which involved four students of the Department of Economics and Management of UniTrento as interns, is part of this collaboration.