On 14 February, a few days after the International Day of Girls and Women in Science (11 February), Palazzo Reale became the venue for ”Loving science, nature and peace like Marie and Pierre Curie,” an event with two extraordinary French guests: the physicist Hélène Langevin-Joliot and the planetologist Yves Langevin, who are, respectively, the grandson and great-grandson of Marie and Pierre Curie.
Centro Diagnostico Italiano (diagnostics centre) on Via Saint Bon is hosting an exhibition titled Donne e motori? Gioie e basta’ [Women and motors? Joy and nothing else]
“Le 100 esperte STEM vanno a scuola” is a project whose name refers to a series of webinars for schools and schoolchildren featuring, as guest speakers, 100 women with STEM expertise. It is funded by Fondazione Bracco and Deascuola (a textbook publisher) and is aimed at teachers, primary school pupils and secondary school students.
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.
After unveiling the “Mind the STEM Gap” Manifesto in February 2022 at Expo 2020 in Dubai, Fondazione Bracco continues its commitment to young women’s access to science with its “Mind The STEM Gap – A Roblox Jukebox” installation (Triennale Milano, 1 July – 31 October 2022), in dialogue with the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exposition Unknown Unknowns – An Introduction to Mysteries..
The photography exhibition “Portrayed. Women directors of Italian museums” presents profiles and stories of the women experts managing some of the most important Italian cultural places.
Palazzo Reale, Milan opens 2022 with the great exhibition, supported by Bracco Foundation as Main Partner, dedicated to the image of women in the 16th century in the painting of the great maestro Titian and his famous contemporaries including Giorgione, Lotto, Palma il Vecchio, Veronese and Tintoretto, from February 23 to June 5, 2022.
Enhancing and encouraging innovation in technical training courses is a key part of building students’ skills and strengths.
With the exhibition “Le Signore dell’Arte. Storie di donne tra ’500 e ’600’” (The Ladies of Art. Stories of women between 1500 and 1600) Milan Palazzo Reale, from March 2021, the art and the incredible lives of 34 female artists are rediscovered through more than 130 works, demonstrating intense all-female creative vitality, in a singular account of passionate stories of women who were already “modern”. Bracco Foundation, always attentive to the world of art and science with a strong focus on the female universe, supports the exhibition as Main Sponsor.
The exhibition “Life as a scientist” presents the faces and the competences of some of the greatest Italian women scientists, protagonists of the “100 women against stereotypes” project that was created to highlight female expertise in sectors still perceived as male dominated.
