Bracco Foundation is taking part in the global digital project A Brief History of Vaccination, promoted by Google Art and Culture for World Immunization Week 2022 (24 – 30 April 2022), which aims to build awareness of the role of vaccines in combatting potentially deadly diseases, of the importance of science and of the contribution of communities in overcoming pandemics.
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Giving vulnerable communities access to science. This is the objective of the STEM project “Italia brilla – Costellazione 2022”, a countrywide itinerant science project touring places that science rarely reaches. Promoted by Associazione Il Cielo Itinerante, the project is enjoying its second year of support from the Bracco Foundation.
The scholarship award ceremony for the ten winners of the “Women in STEM” project took place on Tuesday 29 March 2022. Brainchild of Fondazione Giuseppina Mai of Confindustria and the Bracco Foundation, the scholarships receive support from the Government of Quebec, Assolombarda and the “STEAMiamoci” project.
Bracco Foundation in 2021 offered the entire Diventerò community, made up of winners chosen over time in the project opportunities offered by the Foundation, the chance to take part in the national Call “Beyond Borders: Knowing unites people”.
AIRI’s Industrial Innovation Day 2021 included the conferral of Renato Ugo prize scholarships to talented students of STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
The European Night of Researchers saw the final encounter of the Special Initiative on Women’s Empowerment (SIWE) promoted by the B20 and presided by Diana Bracco. Here was launched the Fondazione Bracco “Mind the STEM Gap” Manifesto, aimed at supporting female access to science, overcoming gender stereotypes.
The event “B20-G20 Dialogue on Women Empowerment”, organised by the B20 Special Initiative on Women Empowerment (SIWE), takes stock of existing gender inequalities to report on the actionable recommendations developed in the course of the B20 Cycle by the SIWE and present in the SIWE Policy Paper.
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale (AIRI: an industrial research association), in partnership with the Bracco Foundation, Farmindustria and Fondazione Silvio Tronchetti Provera, is pleased to announce a competition for students entering the final year of a master’s degree in a science subject at an Italian university in the academic year 2020/2021. There are five scholarships available, each worth €5,000.
The InOltre (In quartiere / Oltre i margini) space, dedicated to culture, services and social entrepreneurism, opens its doors in Baranzate with the aim of becoming a point of reference for the city and suburbs of Milan.
Lighting Milan up again, its shopping thoroughfares and main roads also in suburban and external areas thanks to a project of great social and artistic value. The tree Christmas, a creative idea developed by Marco Balich and donated to the city by Bracco Foundation, aims to make Christmas festivities a moment of solidarity among the various souls of the city and of reciprocal support among its quarters, involving companies and non-profit organisations. This is the objective of the municipal administration for Christmas 2020.