Knowledge is one of the essential values of our time, and yet its importance is often taken for granted. In an age shaped by artificial intelligence, global crises and unprecedented scientific change, this event asks what it means today to invest in research and learning. Bringing the perspective of someone who has moved through science as a researcher, a director and a leading figure in public institutions, Chiara Carrozza weaves personal experience together with systemic analysis, connecting science, politics and society. From experimental physics to biorobotics, from the organisation of research systems to the training of new generations, this is a chance to explore the many kinds of value that knowledge holds: cultural, economic, democratic and human. What is knowledge really worth in a world moving faster than its own institutions? Without a long-term vision and without faith in education, there can be no sustainable development and no shared future.