This is the fourth edition of the competition organized by the Bank of Italy and the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
This year’s theme is: ‘Designing the future: ideas for a changing world’.
Italian primary and secondary school students are invited to design a banknote in which they imagine life in the future. Knowledge, training, work, technology, environmental and social awareness and the heritage of the past are all variables in which to invest to ensure that the future means progress and a better place in which to live.
The three prize-winning classes (a primary school, a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school) will receive their award from the Bank of Italy’s Banknotes Directorate and will be given a guided tour of the banknote production unit. They will also receive a printed copy of the banknote they designed and a cheque for €10,000 for their school.
The deadline to fill in the application form to enter the competition is 1 February 2017 and the designs must be sent in no later than 1 March 2017.
