In 2012, Fondazione Bracco became a Founding Member and Main Partner of Accademia Teatro alla Scala, one of the most prestigious music and theatre schools in the world.
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From 28 May to 25 June 2025, every Wednesday at 7pm, the 19th-century courtyard of the SIAM building in Milan, home to the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, opens to the public to host “Note d’incontro”, a series of five events introduced by Maestro Fabio Sartorelli. Combining music, words, and reflection, the series is promoted by the Accademia with the support of Fondazione Bracco as Main Partner.
The photographic exhibition “Milan through the eyes of Leonardo” celebrates the bond between Milan and Leonardo da Vinci, who arrived in the Lombard capital in 1483 from the Medici court in Florence.
The Bracco Foundation and Department 5 of the Directorate General of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation have joined forces to promote “progettoDiverterò nel Mondo”, the international edition of progettoDiventerò.
Applications for the “Ing. Giacomo Bonaiuti” scholarship prize are open to students enrolled in a university in Lombardy in a faculty of Chemistry or a related department, such as Industrial Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technologies, Chemical Engineering, or Chemical Sciences and Technologies.
“Mind the STEM Gap – Together” (30 June – 29 October 2023 at CDI-Centro Diagnostico Italiano, No 20 Via Sant Bon, Milan) is an exhibition of works produced by 150 students of both sexes participating in the “Mind the STEM Gap” Manifesto, an initiative run by Fondazione Bracco to encourage girls and women to transcend sexist stereotypes by entering and prospering in the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Mind the Stem Gap is Fondazione Bracco’s Manifesto in support of access to STEM disciplines for women, overcoming gender stereotypes. Read, share and sign the Mind the STEM Gap Manifesto!
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.
Named in memory of Professor Renato Ugo, the scholarships, initiated by AIRI and generously supported by Fondazione Bracco and partners, is intended for talented undergraduates interested in pursuing research and innovation in chemistry and related sciences.
The Bracco Foundation and DeAScuola, in collaboration with the “100 women against stereotypes” project (#100esperte), have arranged a new multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral training course consisting of three webinars for teachers and one for students from junior and senior secondary schools.