“My thoughts on the possibility that some descendants of the Agnelli family could also enroll at M-Tech Ferrari in Maranello, including cousins, nephews and various relatives? Good question. I’m just saying that our ambition is to create a school whose number of members will be very high and I hope that there will also be interest from the new generations of my family to be able to be trained in the best way. The school that we will inaugurate in 2029 will represent true excellence. It will be a place where the best knowledge and skills can meet. A school open to everyone”.
The president of the Ferrari and Agnelli Foundation, John Elkann, is responsible for laying the foundation stone that in 2029, the Scuderia’s centenary year, will become a large and modern public school, the new educational center in Maranello named after Enzo Ferrari’s son, Alfredo, better known as Dino, who died in 1956 and was the half-brother of current vice-president Piero. A tribute to the family that gave life to the Prancing Horse and that underlines the relationship between Ferrari and technology, between Ferrari and the region. “The goal – explains Elkann – is to prepare and train high-level technicians and engineers”. Cavallino’s partner is the Agnelli Foundation, represented yesterday by director Andrea Gavosto, which for years has sought to contribute to the improvement of the Italian education system through projects and research for schools. The hub will be built on an area of 32 thousand square meters, on the site of a former factory, with an investment of more than 50 million (resources allocated by the Ferrari Foundation thanks to the generosity of customers). Forty classrooms and a thousand students are expected in the structure surrounded by greenery to be built outside the historic factory on via Abetone in Maranello.
The presentation of the project – the construction site for which work will begin at the beginning of 2026 – was also an opportunity for a direct discussion between Giornale and Ferrari’s number one with an eye to the future and the fact that the most famous automotive company in the world intends to give everyone the opportunity to make their dreams come true. “M-Tech is not a Ferrari school – explains Michele Antoniazzi, director of human resources at Cavallino – but a state school that aims to provide the highest level of preparation. It is the students who will choose where to go to work. Everyone’s hope is that they stay in the region, but there is no direct line with Ferrari. Anyone is free to come and go”. The heart of the new center is the workshop, a laboratory of about 3 thousand square meters where students will be able to create prototypes and face real simulations, experimenting in an environment that reproduces modern processes.
Elkann President, M-Tech Alfredo Ferrari is destined to further enrich the unique technological and innovative heritage of the so-called Motor Valley.
“This is a contribution linked to the ingenuity of many colleagues at Ferrari and everyone who participates in Motor Valley. All aligned with the institution with the aim of creating a unique reality as a physical and unique place also for learning and knowledge that will benefit young people in the region and beyond. M-Tech wants to have a local footprint with global ambitions.”
These hubs are destined to produce new talent and will also have to compete with similar initiatives. In China for example.
“Our initiative is an initiative that gives hope and optimism for the future. In fact, we want to be a place of excellence that allows us to practice the skills of building the future in a unique way, not limiting ourselves to this region, but welcoming here, people from China, people from America and people from all over the world, who want to learn what they cannot learn anywhere else.”
President, all in the name of Enzo Ferrari?
“The founder started with a school dedicated to his older brother Alfredo which was also his father’s name. We wanted to provide continuity with M in Maranello, Tech for the vocation of technology that leads to the future with innovation, and of course Alfredo Ferrari. Today, we are faced with a broader challenge: being able to understand and learn a series of knowledge that is constantly developing, such as technology”.
M-Tech Ferrari, why gift it to the community now?
“Fully integrated into the region, without drawing clear boundaries with the outside world, will contribute to strengthening Maranello’s profile as a center of technological ingenuity and know-how.
Local footprint, global ambitions. Why now? Because now is the time.”
The President of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Michele de Pascale, spoke yesterday with President Elkann, Vice President Piero Ferrari and CEO Benedetto Vigna.
