On 14–15 June 2025, the second edition of Il Diritto di Suonare [The Right to Play] takes place in Milan. The Right to Play, which is the first festival in the country dedicated to overcoming gender stereotypes in classical music, is promoted by the Classical Rights Association and supported by the Bracco Foundation.
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The Bracco Foundation is supporting Donne in Movimento, a new fundraising gala being promoted by the Italian Foundation for Research in Rheumatology (FIRA). The event combines culture, science and social responsibility, and shines a spotlight on the oft-overlooked issue of rheumatological diseases that predominantly affect women.
The Bracco Foundation and the International Olympic Committee promoted the first nationwide survey of media coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics from a gender perspective.
Bracco Foundation presents a photographic exhibition in Milan: “A Life in Sport: The Faces and Achievements of 100 Female Experts”, sponsored by the Municipality of Milan and Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026. By showcasing the contributions of Italian women to the world of sport, the exhibition is an advertisement for gender equality and a rebuttal of the stereotypes that continue to limit female visibility.
Confindustria’s Fondazione Giuseppina Mai, in collaboration with the Bracco Foundation and Assolombarda’s Steamiamoci project, is promoting female participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) studies by offering concrete opportunities for advancement to talented female students.
The aim is to reduce the high rate of early drop-outs among women in science subjects and encourage them to complete their studies.
Women make up just 34% of researchers in Italy according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD ). The percentage is very low, but it is rising. The Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (PCTO) is guiding the “Week as a woman scientist ”, created in 2016 by the Bracco Foundation in collaboration with Centro Università degli Studi di Milano (CusMiBio). The initiative, which is aimed at girls in their fourth year of secondary school or technical college, revolves around the six points set out in the #Forwomeninscience manifesto.
From 30 January to 30 June 2024, Centro Diagnostico Italiano is hosting at its premises at No. 20 Via Saint Bon in Milan) a photographic exhibition titled “Colpo di scena. Dalla A di attrezzista alla S di scultrice” (‘Plot Twist: From A for Artisan toolmaker to S for sculptress’) (free entry) created and promoted by the Bracco Foundation in collaboration with Accademia Teatro alla Scala.
After its success at the MAXXI in Rome, the Straordinarie exhibition travels to the Fabbrica del Vapore museum of Milan where it will run from 14 February to 17 March 2024 (entrance free of charge).
On the occasion of the thirtieth edition of the Artissima Art Fair, the Bracco Foundation and the Roberto de Silva and Diana Bracco Foundation of Milan have jointly organized the “Diana Bracco Award for Women Art Entrepreneurs”.
The photographic exhibition “Straordinarie. Protagoniste del presente” (13 September – 6 October 2023 | MAXXI Museum, Rome) presents more than one hundred portraits and voices of Italian women testify how they assert themselves and realise their ambitions despite and beyond prejudice and discrimination.