Round GRIP: Spoke 2 Grand Final | 🌸Make your impact bloom 🌸

The journey symbolically ended in Turin, where it all began, in Combo's impressive Atlas room. The event was moderated by Giovanna Guarriello, Communication and Dissemination Manager of Spoke 2, who opened the proceedings with an introductory video and then explained the choice of title for the meeting, “Make your impact bloom” 🌸: an invitation to grow and consolidate the impact generated in Spoke 2.

The institutional greetings were given by Cristina Prandi, Rector of the University of Turin and Scientific Coordinator of Spoke 2, and Chiara Ferroni, General Manager of the NODES ecosystem, who emphasised the strategic value of the dialogue between research and business promoted by the programme.

Getting to the heart of the meeting, interspersed with a series of video testimonials from some of the key figures involved in Spoke 2, Nicole Mariotti, Flagship and Third Parties Manager of Spoke 2, and Edoardo Braccio, Project Manager of Spoke 2, presented the results of the Spoke Work Packages.

The evening continued with one of the most engaging moments: the TG News Round GRIP. The participants, divided into groups, put themselves to the test by imagining a future goal for Spoke 2 and reporting it as real breaking news from the future. After the groups presented their work, a vote decided on the most convincing project: the winner was the “Lago” group. 🎉

✨ The event was closed once again by Giovanna Guarriello, who retraced the stages of a journey that began in 2022 and which today sees concrete results and new prospects for the future. This was followed by a closing networking aperitif 🥂, an ideal opportunity to continue the discussion and celebrate the success of Round GRIP together, remembering that "Projects end, but connections remain."