Riace, Calabria - Italy

Domenico Lucano, a former elementary teacher and the current mayor of Riace. He is the founder of the "Città Futura . Future City" association in Riace. With it they give birth to a "widespread" reception project with the aim of involving refugees in a rural community that would be destined to disappear due to the high emigrations of local to the north. They have cleaned and refurbished streets and houses in ruins, created workshops that revive forgotten crafts, open shops, libraries and bars, kept kindergartens and schools alive, as well as initiated educational farms, vegetable gardens and olive presses, making the village reborn, giving work and new opportunities to both locals and migrants. The major was listed as one of the 50 most influential people in world by Fortune Magazine on 2017.