Eleanor Worthington-Odv Prize Association

Recent Years

Important external and inernal events in the history ot the Associazione have marked the period from 2018 onwards.

The 2019 COVID epidemichas had a deep impact on the activities of the Associazione. Despite the epidemic,the Prize has carried on, both at the level of Secondary Schools, and of Universities, with a substantial drop in the number of submitted works in 2019, and a peak in 2020, as if the end of the epidemic had freed new energies.Eve since, the numbers of submitted works has never fallen below 100 for Secondary Schools, and below 25 at University level..

The composition of the group of Schools taking part in the Prize has widened dramatically: from the two egions of Marche and Abruzzo in 2017, it raised to nine regions in 2024, with Schools taking part from Marche, Abruzzo, Puglia, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Umbria, Toscana, Emilia Romagna.

Handling larege numbers is now made easy by the platform GEP, which allows Schools to directly upload their works, and  Judges to visualize the works, and upload their assessments. This digital advancement has been financed in 2023 by the European Union with the project Next Generation EU, which has also financed an upgrading of the web site, now accessible from mobile phones as well.

The Association has tried to be more active with respect to applying for financing through calls for projects financed by public institutions. In 2022 the Association has been a partner in a project within Cultural Welfare, cofinanced by the Marche Region, with state funds from the Ministry of Work and Social Policies.The project, "Street Art on Stage: fromShadows to Colours" was coordinated by the Pesaro branch of AIAS (Italian Association for Assistance to Spastic People), and the Associagtion took part with an exhibition of its works in Pesaro.

Special attention has been devoted to Universal Accessibility: all opening events are interpreted in the LIS (Italian Lqnguage of Signs); also, audiodescription is a must for taking part in the Prize at University level, and for students of Secondary Schools a special,prize is allocated to the best audiodescription, which is optional,

The many works submitted have beeen making the Exhibitions more and more interesting; tone single Exhibition was set up in the Sala del Maniscalco in Urbino, when Secondary School and University students were asked to illustrate the same theme.Now the themes have been differentiated, and in 2024 the Exhibition of works submitted by students at University level has been set up in the Galleria Albani, in Urbino, following the prize giving event, which has taken place as usual in the Sala d’Inverno del Palazzo Ducale di Urbino. The exhibiton of works submitted by Secondary School students has taken place in August in the Sala del Maniscalco in Urbino..Both exhibitions have been curated by Nunzia Invernizzi, Art Director of the Association.

In the 2025 Spring Nunzia Invernizzi has also curated an exhibition at the Centro Famiglia della Cooperativa Labirinto in Urbino, with works submitted to the Prize.

Every year in York the York Human Rights Disability Forum celebrates December the 3rd as  the UN International Day of Persons with Disability, coordinating a large number of activities dealing with disability. As part of that, Exhibitions are held at York Hospital, and at  York Explore Library and Archives, with works submitted for the Prize.. Since 2021 in spring in York St John University the Exhibition of all works submitted to the Prize at University level has been curated by Helen Turner, Deputy Art Director a York St John University.

In 2020 Nunzia Invernizzi has designed the new flyer for the  Cineforum, now in  colours.

In 2020 the Cineforum has been interrupted because of Covid, and in subsequent years the attendance to the Cineforum up a has been rather low. However, it has gradually built up again, thanks also to the more active role taken by dr. Riccardo Bernini, who introduces and chairs the debate afgter each film, with remarkable success, especially among the students of the University of Urbino.

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