How much can a visually, artistically and culturally stimulating environment influence our mood? How important is it if we are patients in hospital? Can we renew the conception of hospitals to improve therapy, revealing the interdependence between environment, illness and well-being?
International Women’s Day saw a major homage to the figure of Helena, who, in her long life, played many roles: she was mother of the celebrated Emperor Constantine, Empress and Augusta of a vast empire and finally saint, linked to the cult of the “true cross”.
The solemn opening ceremony of the 43rd Paulista Radiology Day (JPR ), which was held in São Paulo in the first week of May, was enriched by a concert sponsored by the foundation: Ludimilla Bauerfeldt and Jaeyoon Jung, young soprano and tenor of the Course for opera Singers of the Teatro alla Scala Academy. They performed a famous and fascinanting all-Italian opera programme, accompanied by the Orquestra Sinfonica de Heliopolis conducted by Maestro Edilson Ventureli.
Bracco Foundation and the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome organised the seminar “Prevention and Diagnosis of breast cancer: friends of young women,” in order to improve the culture of prevention in such an important area as breast cancer, the most frequent form of cancer among young women in Italy.
It was a day to remember for Vanessa Speziale, the young and talented girl from Morbegno who won with her thesis entitled “A virtual exhibition for the Paolo Monti Archive” the Linda Cena Prize, promoted by Bracco Foundation and part of the extensive programme of the Comitato Leonardo Qualità Italia.
The Constantine 313 A.D. exhibition, of which Bracco Foundation is Main Partner, was designed by the Diocesan Museum and staged in the Palazzo Reale. The exhibition celebrates the anniversary of the issuing in 313 DC of the “Edict of Milan” by the Western Roman Emperor Constantine and his counterpart in the East, Licinius. It declared Christianity, after centuries of persecution, legal and so began a period of religious tolerance and great political and cultural innovation.
The second in the series of meetings on “Women & Science” based on prevention for women, organized by the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi in collaboration with Bracco Foundation, is starting.
Bracco Foundation celebrates International Women’s Day with the festival dedicated to taste, melodies and wellness, with a thematic and interdisciplinary approach designed to discover the beneficial properties of wine.
Bracco Foundation announced at a press conference on December 16, 2011 at 12:00 in Milan, at the headquarters of the Academy School of Ballet, a three-year collaboration with Teatro alla Scala Academy, of which it became main and founding partner to promote the Italian culture in the world, and at the same time, to offer young people the opportunity to develop their talents.
As part of the 12th Confindustria Corporate Culture Week, Bracco Foundation is promoting and organising a conference on the tax treatment of foundations, a subject of particular importance in the present scenario.
