The initiative aims at activating relationships and implementing cooperation between the actors of the local socio-economic system, trying – at the provincial area level – to promote interactions between politics, society, business and university, for a real chance to relaunch the production system. The involved parties  responded with interest and participation, from the Mayors to the technicians of the Local Authorities, to the entrepreneurs represented by the National Construction Builders Association (ANCE – AIES) of Salerno, to the working group of the Project Evaluation Laboratory (PEL) of the University of Salerno.

The reference to Antonio Genovesi, a distinguished economist of the eighteenth century born in Castiglione (SA), referred in the following to as Genovesi, the forerunner of the political economy (he is the first chair in Italy at the University of Naples), is representative of the strong bond established between the initiative and the territory. The goal is to concretize the didactic and training efforts in a product that can be immediately used on the market. So the award was born and modelled on the didactic option aimed at “bringing the students to the field”, engaging them with the evaluation problems that emerged from the direct interaction with public bodies. In a phase such as the present one, in which it is the financing and management problems of the project and not its drafting material that takes on a decisive role, this recognition represents a small step for future engineers to be able to face the professional and cultural challenges that await them.