Rome, Chamber of Deputies, Queen’s Hall, 10 October 2025.

The Award

The Italy-USA Foundation promoted at the Italian Parliament the new edition of the America Award; it is a prestigious recognition of great civil and institutional work. The award is mainly seen as a means to acknowledge and encourage initiatives and work aimed at favoring relationships between Europe and the United States of America. Clearly famous, eminent figures that have distinguished themselves in their work and have achieved the utmost excellence in their respective fields of interested and activities, and important results in favor of transatlantic friendship, will be considered. The 2025 ceremony was held in Rome at the Chamber of Deputies, on Thursday October 10, at 5 PM. A special award will be conferred in memory of the scientist Guglielmo Marconi. The Italy-USA Foundation, in the frame of the America Award, also conferred three medals of the Italian Parliament to three students of American universities: Leonardo Di Franco-Cascone, Grace Sullivan, Lusiana Veveiros. The anchorwoman was the journalist Didi Leoni.

Winners

Renato Calabria, American Board of Plastic Surgery

Maurizio Cheli, astronaut

Nunzia De Girolamo, anchorwman

Filippo Magnini, swimmer

Eleonora Pedron, actress

Agnese Pini, editor in chief Quotidiano Nazionale

Domenico Vacca, fashion designer

Herman Van Rompuy, president emeritus European Counsel