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Terzo Pilastro - Italia e Mediterraneo e Italia - Pilastro Terzo

Art and Culture and Art

Education

Scientific Research Scientific

Health

The Foundation The

A unique project for Social Sustainability. Social for project unique A

In the area for the Community. the for area the In Historical, private and independent. and private Historical,

Via Marco Minghetti, 17 - 00187 Rome Telephone + 39 06 6976450 - Fax +39 06 697645300

www.fondazioneroma.it

Historical, private and independent. Contents

Chiarman’s Introduction The Efficiency of Solidarity. Fondazione Roma Protagonist of the Civil Welfare Model

History of Fondazione Roma Headquarters: Palazzo Sciarra The Cardinal’s Library The Mirrors Study The Art Collection The Historical Archives Palazzo Cipolla Institutional Activities Health The Hospice and the Foundation’s increasing commitment to patients affected by ALS and Alzheimer’s disease Grants for Hospitals Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital

Scientific Research Support for Excellent Biomedical Research IRCCS - Fondazione Bietti for Ophthalmic Research Commitment to Scientific Research in the Pontine District Fondazione Roma Supports Socio-economic Research

Education Urgent Needs in Education: Grants for Schools and Universities Postgraduate University Courses Fondazione Roma Supports Persecuted Peoples

Art and Culture Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei Museo Fondazione Roma Portraits of Poetry

Commitment to Solidarity and the Mediterranean Region This book has been published by Fondazione Roma

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Fondazione Roma Via Marco Minghetti, 17 00187 Rome, Italy © Fondazione Roma Introduction The Efficiency of Solidarity

Fondazione Roma Protagonist of the Civil Welfare Model

Italy must now reconsider the concept and limits of the welfare system and focus on an urgent transition from the Welfare State to a Civil Welfare Model, whereby the State, individuals and non-profit organizations provide social services on equal terms, in order to propose a system that leaves scope for social interaction and enables citizens to be directly involved in the management of public goods.

This model is described in the book entitled Il terzo pilastro. Il non-profit motore del nuovo welfare (The third pillar. Non-profit organisations drive the new welfare system), in which I have elaborated a plan whereby the third pillar – that varied world of non-profit organizations – should become the new key element, capable of ensuring a positive solution to the crisis of the Welfare State.

Fondazione Roma is playing an essential role in this respect. Literally interpreting the spirit of the Reforms, introduced by Giuliano Amato and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, which created banking foundations, Fondazione Roma was the first to end its relationship with the transferee bank (2002). Unlike most of the other foundations, Fondazione Roma has avoided debt and useless capital increases issued for the purpose of maintaining a controlling interest in the banks. The Foundation has instead concentrated all its energy and resources in philanthropic activities and becoming a proactive think tank focused on the issues that question the future of Italy and the global society. An institution with a long and stable tradition, original expression of the civil society’s independency and spirit of initiative, Fondazione Roma is the largest foundation in Italy with a membership. All the institutional activities performed by the Foundation, which constantly updates its grant issuing procedure and operational structure, have the sole purpose of supporting the development of the local area in sectors that are strategic to social progress such as Health, Scientific Research, Education, Art and Culture and Aid to the Undeprivileged.

We are proudly certain to be on the right track and to have met many challenges and that we shall reach new goals in the future by pursuing and accomplishing a concrete and constructive project for social sustainability.

Professor Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele Chairman of Fondazione Roma The Foundation The History of Fondazione Roma

The history of Fondazione Roma dates back to 1539 when, in order to fight usury, Paul III issued an Edict establishing the pawn-broking institution ‘Mount of Piety of Rome’. The mission was perpetuated through a Rescript issued in 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI, in response to an initiative of worthy citizens, which instituted the savings bank called Cassa di Risparmio di Roma that incorporated the Mount of Piety in 1937.

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Roma was established, inheriting the savings bank’s original social benefit goals, when the reform, introduced by Mr Giuliano Amato, was enacted in the early nineteen nineties. In order to emphasise the new identity arising from the separation of the banking business from philanthropic activities, in 2007 the Foundation’s name became Fondazione Roma.

Hence, Fondazione Roma is the last episode in five hundred years of history during which it has been transformed and modernised adapting its projects to the new socio-economic context.

The Chairman’s strategic decision to accomplish stable and structured projects and to concentrate resources in the five traditional and more relevant sectors of Health, Scientific Research, Education, Art and Culture and Aid to the Underprivileged, favouring innovative approaches and procedures in order to find practical solutions to the true needs of the local community, proves the Foundation’s ability to establish a best practice model, which may be replicated and sustained in other contexts.

The first Foundation of banking origin to have left the sector, as planned by the legislator, Fondazione Roma manages its assets in a prudential manner for the purpose of meeting the objectives of protecting the real value of its capital and income, which enables it to constantly issue grants in support of the local area. The Foundation The Headquarters: Palazzo Sciarra

The headquarters of Fondazione Roma are situated in the historical building named Palazzo Sciarra, which overlooks the Via del Corso in the centre of Rome where some of the most ancient churches stood during early Christianity and important patrician mansions were built as from the XV century.

In the second half of the sixteenth century the Sciarra branch of the , that held the Principality of Carbognano, built the Palace on the site where the Colonnas owned two separate buildings called, respectively, the ‘Palazzo imperfetto’ and the ‘Palazzetto’, which the Milanese architect, Flaminio Ponzio, planned to be joined in 1610.

In 1641, Orazio Torrioni took over the direction of the building site and created the noble and austere façade squared with ashlar angles, crowned with cornice on corbels and divided by three orders of windows.

The monumental portal has two fluted columns surmounted by composite capitals on high plinths, which support the balustraded balcony on the first floor, placed in front of an ashlar arch. The face of the plinths and the balustrade are enriched with columns sculptured in relief in remembrance of the relationship between Sciarra family and the prestigious Colonna dynasty.

Due to the beauty of the portal, the Palace was included amongst the ‘Four Wonders of Rome’ together with the Borghese cembalo (harpsichord), the Farnese cube and the Caetani-Ruspoli staircase. During the eighteenth century, Cardinal adapted the Palace to the style of the period. Luigi Vanvitelli, architect and friend of the cardinal, was involved in the architectural and pictorial renovation and designed the refurbishment.

The Cardinal’s Library, the small Gallery and the Mirrors Study, rich in pictorial decorations, are some of the rooms that were created during the refurbishment, increasing the historical and artistic value of the Palace. In the late nineteenth century, Francesco Settimi attended to the restoration of the surrounding buildings, the extension of the right wing and reconstruction of the courtyard. The size of the Palace was considerably reduced between 1871 and 1898, when Maffeo Sciarra commissioned the architect Giulio de Angelis to open the adjacent Via Minghetti and to build the Quirino theatre and the Sciarra Gallery in the rear of the complex. The Foundation The Cardinal’s Library

The Cardinal’s Library is to be found inside a large apartment, which Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (1707 – 1765) required to be located on the second floor of the building. Like the Mirrors Study, to which it communicates through a small hallway, the Library’s original eighteenth century fittings are still intact. The Cardinal commissioned the works to the architect Luigi Vanvitelli, his friend who designed the famous Royal Palace of Caserta built for the Bourbon kings of .

Since this is the only secular interior executed by Vanvitelli, it has a greater historical value. The architect decided to transform the regular rectangular framework of the seventeenth century room into a sinuous interior, by creating four corner alcoves and working only on the upper part of the walls.

Thus, a room of sober elegance was created, precious, secluded and in keeping with the Rococo taste.

Stefano Pozzi was appointed to decorate the surfaces. The walls of the room, into which five doors and two French windows overlooking vicolo Sciarra open, are entirely lined with a white and gold boiserie containing seven spacious bookcases surrounded by twelve mirrored pilasters surmounted by Doric gilt capitals.

Two tall curvilinear mirrors, set in refined gilt frames with motifs of French taste, are placed in the centre of the long sides of the room, whilst a white marble fireplace is situated in the wall near the Mirrors Study. The room’s rich pictorial programme is performed along a dual theme, alluding as much to the prestigious offices held by the Cardinal as to the concept of Time and use as a study.

Allegories of Justice, Fortitude and Charity, which are cardinal and theological virtues and the predominant subject of the entire decoration, are depicted on the vault, whereas the allegories of the Elements and the Seasons are placed around the lower zone. Personified Signs of the Zodiac are depicted on the doors of the shelves placed under the pillars. The Foundation The Mirrors Study

The Mirrors Study, situated inside the apartment of Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra, was accomplished, like the adjacent Cardinal’s Library, by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli. This square room with a depressed vault was obtained from a pre-existent seventeenth century hall.

The study, which overlooks the former Stables Courtyard, has an extraordinarily luminous and vital appearance. Due to the preciousness of the materials employed and the refined design of the fixtures, this room is an example of decorative elegance characterized by the Rococo style and the chinoiserie fashion.

Furnishings such as mirrors, depicted panels and stuccowork are in the rocaille style and, consistent with the eighteenth century fashion, an integral part of the architecture. Overlapping genre and styles of furnishings to adapt the former architectural context to the new trends in taste, creates a pleasant eclecticism. The mirrors and porcelains that decorate the Study make the small room appear larger and enhance the splendour of the gilt frames and the boiserie lining the walls.

Five mirrors, depicted with figurative scenes ofPutti and views of Ruins, decorate the walls alternating with the doors in the rocaille style, which are also covered with mirrors and decorated with imaginative exotic themes. A large mirror in the middle of the ceiling shows a playful scene of flyingPutti picking grapes. Decorative elements, which combine classic and exotic motifs, shells, dragons and depictions of Psyche, are positioned around the bays of the false vault. The double pillars, leaning against the two facing walls next to the Cardinal’s gallery and bedroom, have wooden panels painted in tempera and decorated with figures ofAcrobats, Dancers and Musicians in elaborate scales of perspective, which replicate the design of the exotic scenes on the doors.

The panels decorating the doors and pillars are inspired by French exoticism and fully reflect the taste of Cardinal Colonna who, like other eighteenth century elites, followed the chinoiserie fashion. The Foundation The Art Collection

Fondazione Roma’s Art Collection is composed of a substantial and original corpus of works ranging from the fifteenth century to date. Based on the original small nucleus that belonged to the ancient pawn broking institution, Mount of Piety, and the savings bank, Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, the Collection has been considerably expanded through a series of new acquisitions purchased over the years, as firmly requested and promoted by the Chairman of Fondazione Roma, who also had the idea of gathering and permanently exhibiting the works in galleries created for the purpose in Palazzo Sciarra.

Several private collections belonging to Roman galleries that derive from the estates of great families have remained intact over the centuries by means of trust agreements, which, whilst avoiding dispersal, imply that these collections are ‘closed’. Conversely, the wise and successful series of new accessions that continue to increase the original nucleus distinguish Fondazione Roma’s Art Collection.

This Collection is centred mainly on artists active in Rome, in order to add new important tesserae to the extraordinary mosaic composed of Rome’s artistic heritage. The core of the Collection is comprised of works belonging to the late Baroque and Marattesque culture and in the local museum environment has even become known as one of the most representative picture galleries of the Roman figurative period between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Various paintings, including works by the principal contemporary artists who for various reasons have been connected to the capital city, significantly represent the ensuing centuries.

Finally, the collection is enriched by four hundred specimens of the Foundation’s numismatic heritage, composed of approximately 2.500 medals and coins, the most substantial and impressive part of which is the series of Papal medals starting from , born Colonna, to Pope Francis. The collection reflects six centuries of the history of Roman Catholic Papacy and, due both to the number and quality of the specimens, may be considered second only to the Vatican Library’s Medagliere. The Foundation The Historical Archives

In 2010 Fondazione Roma acquired the archives pertaining to the pawn broking institution, Mount of Piety (Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma), and the savings bank, Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, from Unicredit S.p.A., due to the determination of the Chairman, who also arranged for the preservation and enhancement of these historical records that trace back to the philanthropic spirit at the roots of the Foundation.

This complex collection of various types of records, documents and materials deposited between the sixteenth and the twentieth century is kept inside Palazzo Sciarra, in an electromechanical shelving unit located in a repository monitored with modern instruments that ensure safety, stability and constantly measure the environmental parameters, in observance of the standards for protection and preservation.

The Chairman decided to create an exhibition hall on the ground floor near the building’s seventeenth century portal where a selection of documents and memorabilia arranged in chronological order are preserved, offering an excursus that starts from the Papal Bull establishing the Mount of Piety issued on the 9th of September 1539 by Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese, continues with the list of the first hundred members who founded the Cassa di Risparmio in 1836 and ends with the minutes of the meeting that decreed the merger of the two credit institutions in 1937.

Aware of the Foundation’s prestigious documentary heritage, in order to allow citizens to broaden their knowledge of the origins and history of both institutions the Chairman authorised access to the historical archives. Hence a large reception room has been opened beside the exhibition hall where visitors who have obtained routine authorization from the Superintendent of Archives in the region may access the archives by appointment. Scientific advisors and suitable consulting tools help users to examine the documents and perform research. The Foundation Palazzo Cipolla

The Museo Fondazione Roma is housed in Palazzo Cipolla, where thirty-eight of the forty-six exhibitions promoted by Fondazione Roma have been held since the museum opened in 1999.

Palazzo Cipolla was built during the second half of the nineteenth century on the site of Palazzo Jacovacci, which the Cassa di Risparmio had purchased from the administration of Saint James hospital for eighty-four thousand scudi and decided to demolish it in 1868. Several fragments of the Roman Arch of Claudius were discovered during the excavation of the foundations.

The solemn opening ceremony of the building, which became the new headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Roma formerly situated in the sixteenth century Palazzo Borghese, was held on the 29th of November 1874 under the presidency of Prince Carlo Barberini, Commanding Captain of the Noble Guard of His Holiness.

Palazzo Cipolla has the privilege of representing the last important architectural work to have been accomplished in Rome under Pope Pius IX and the first when Rome became the capital of Italy. Antonio Cipolla won the tender to build the Palace in 1864, with a project that combined two styles and two epochs, the pure fifteenth century Florentine and a general sixteenth century Roman.

As Marcello Piacentini wrote, “Antonio Cipolla was the first to attempt to create an Italian style, inspired, in a fully academic atmosphere, by schemes of the past”. The Architect played a leading role in the redevelopment of the capital city of Italy: he was appointed vice president of the Urban Planning Committee and refurbished Palazzo del Quirinale, which in those years was the Palace of the Kings of Italy, and also built the stables.

The Chairman of Fondazione Roma, felt that it may be useful to promote the publication of the book concerning these works “Antonio Cipolla architetto del Risorgimento” by Professor Paolo Portoghesi. The Hospice and the Foundation’s Health Increasing Commitment to Patients affected by ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease

In the years between 1997-1998 when, in Italy, there was a lack of interest in topics related to palliative care, the Chairman of Fondazione Roma, who had visited a state-of-the-art oncology centre in the United States of America, decided to establish a Hospice in Rome, that is an inpatient facility which provides medical care and attends to the spiritual needs of terminal patients. At the time, the number of centres for palliative care in Italy could be counted on one hand and none had been established in Rome.

Having performed feasibility studies and completed the operational plans, the Hospice was opened in 1999 and had ten beds. In time, the care services offered have been constantly updated and increased and today the Hospice also provides services for patients affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer’s disease.

The mission of the Hospice is to offer excellent person centred care and ensure that patients are treated with respect and dignity. Since opening, the Hospice has provided comprehensive services to over twelve thousand terminal patients who received physical, spiritual and psychological care.

In recent years the Hospice has been highly committed to patients with Alzheimer’s disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. An important project has been undertaken in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) to create a robot assistant for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients, capable of influencing their physical and cognitive wellbeing, in ‘intelligent’ rooms. Moreover, Fondazione Roma is planning to implement revolutionary services for patients with Alzheimer’s disease through a pioneer project in Italy, freely inspired by a Dutch experiment, which the Chairman likewise promoted having visited the centre in Holland.

This is a residential care facility for senior citizens affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of senile dementia, that replicates the typical environment and amenities found in a village, the inhabitants of which are the patients. The residents live in households that reflect their former lifestyle, they are free to walk around and are assisted by carers who also perform other duties in the village such as hairdressers, barbers, waiters, shop assistants or caretakers. The village, with areas for sports, socialization and the rehabilitation of residents, will be open to families and the local community in order to encourage integration between the facility and the existing social fabric. Health Grants for Hospitals

Modernising medical equipment entails a considerable financial burden, which hospitals find difficult to bear, especially in the current time of crisis when the public health budgets are constantly cut.

Fondazione Roma has been issuing grants to local hospitals for quite some time, for the purpose of ensuring that they are provided with advanced technology equipment and that citizens may enjoy a quality healthcare system, capable of meeting the demand and reducing waiting lists.

This is a substantial undertaking for the Foundation, which in recent years has allocated over thirty million euro for this purpose. Public and private non-profit healthcare facilities (such as the Local Health Services, General Hospitals, University Polyclinics and Research Hospitals) were able to, and still may, modernize or increase their diagnostic, medical and surgical equipment, accomplish bedside technology projects and purchase high technology machinery and innovative robotic devices.

Health Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital

Bambino Gesù is the largest children’s hospital and paediatric research centre in Europe. Connected to leading international facilities in this sector, over a million medical procedures are performed per year.

The Paediatric Rehabilitation Unit is the national reference for the most complex cases and MARLab (Movement analysis and Robotics Laboratory) located in Santa Marinella is the largest paediatric rehabilitation facility in Central and Southern Italy, rated excellent at an international level.

The grant issued in 2014 by Fondazione Roma, as recommended by the Chairman, who has long since been convinced that robotics may considerably improve the quality of life for patients with motor issues, enabled MARLab to acquire ‘Lokomat’ the robot assisted walking therapy.

This is a sophisticated cutting edge device, used in the most advanced international centres to rehabilitate children with gait impairments secondary to neurological injuries and improve their ability to walk. An exoskeleton robotic frame, attached by straps to the outside of the child’s legs, moves them in a natural walking pattern. A computer controls the pace of walking and measures the body’s response to the movement.

By using Lokomat, in addition to other equipment already available, the Laboratory is capable of providing over two thousand robotic rehabilitation sessions per year. Considering the project’s high social value and impact, the Foundation has decided to continue to cooperate with the Bambino Gesù hospital, by focusing on the latest generation robotic systems for the functional recovery of arm and hand actions, since motor deficits of the upper limbs are one of the main childhood disabilities, which severely restrict their self-sufficiency, school attendance and social involvement. Support for Excellent Scientific Research Biomedical Research

Aware that investments in Research and Innovation are one of the main drivers of development and could effectively contribute Podio 50X123:Layout 1 10-06-2009 15:14 Pagina 1 to revive the Italian economy and increase competitiveness, Fondazione Roma has in recent years paid special attention to biomedical research. The Foundation has launched Calls for Proposals for research projects since 2008. The projects are selected by means of the peer review process performed by internationally recognised experts, provided that they have never Vogliamo un mondo dove la salute collaborated with the principal investigators before. sia alla portata di tutti.

The Foundation allocated fifteen million euro to the first Call for Proposals, whereby grants were issued to support thirteen projects, submitted by the investigators of the Faculties of Medicine and Surgery in Roman universities, for research on highly topical issues of social relevance: Diabetes mellitus type 2, mechanisms of disease and macro-vascular complications; Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine and Drug design for the treatment of human infectious diseases.

Fondazione Roma subsequently decided to extend its commitment to biomedical research by allocating a further 10.4 million euro to research centres of excellence and issuing two new Calls for E vogliamo anche fare in modo Proposals. che questo accada.

The first concerned research projects that aim to understand FONDAZIONE ROMA molecular mechanisms and discover new therapeutic targets PER LA RICERCA BIOMEDICA for chronic-degenerative ageing associated non communicable diseases (NCDs) deriving, in particular, from unhealthy life styles: Atherosclerosis and sequels; Metabolic disorders and sequels; Roma, 17 giugno 2009 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and sequels; Alcoholic hepatitis and sequels; Osteoarthropathies and muscular atrophy.

The second Call for Proposals aimed to update and acquire more knowledge in the underfunded yet crucial field of rare diseases, focusing on Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). This rare disorder gradually leads to blindness and has been considered as a disease with significant social and economic implications since 1985.

At the end of a complex and strict evaluation process, the most worthy and promising projects were selected: five concerning Retinitis Pigmentosa and eighteen concerning Non Communicable Diseases.

As a result of these projects the Foundation has become one of the main private institutions to fund research of excellence in Italy. Even in this sector, other parties may refer to the Foundation’s original and efficient model when the community’s genuine needs and the Country’s interests are the main concern. IRCCS – Fondazione G.B. Scientific Research Bietti per lo Studio e la Ricerca in Oftalmologia ONLUS

Fondazione Roma issued its first structural grant for the benefit of Scientific Research in the field of ophthalmology. The Foundation supports Fondazione G.B. Bietti per lo Studio e la Ricerca in Oftalmologia ONLUS, of which it has been a founder member since 1999.

Established in 1984, this non-profit institute for ophthalmic research was named after the illustrious ophthalmologist, scientist and clinician of worldwide fame, Professor G. B. Bietti, who passed away in 1977.

A centre of excellence in its field, Fondazione G. B. Bietti fosters clinical and surgical care, teaching and ophthalmologic research and in 2005 was recognised as a Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalisation and Treatment by the Italian Ministry of Health.

Professional training and organisational analysis of health facilities are other fields of research performed by this Foundation, which, in time, has received prestigious national and international recognitions, becoming a leader in exploring new ways to treat various diseases.

Over the years Fondazione Roma’s contribution has enabled the Bietti Foundation to purchase the building located in Via Livenza 3 – Rome and furnish the laboratories with the most sophisticated, state of the art equipment, perform social epidemiologic, basic, clinical and therapeutic research, accomplish projects for the prevention and early detection of diseases, often in synergy with other national and international research centres, and to train young oculists and other professionals required for diagnostics and clinical ophthalmology (orthoptists, technicians and biologists).

Research mainly focuses on widespread diseases that could lead to a permanent visual impairment such as disorders that affect the retina, ocular surface and cornea, glaucoma and eye cancers. The important results of this research have been documented in numerous scientific journals with a high impact factor. Commitment to Scientific Scientific Research Research in the Pontine District

Fondazione Roma has launched a new important project that aims to create, in Latina, a centre of excellence in the field of haematology-oncology and neurodegenerative diseases, with the highest professional and organisational standards and first class medical equipment, in order to become a point of reference for Central and Southern Italy, capable of interacting with major national and international centres.

Fondazione Roma – Scienza e Ricerca, an instrumental foundation established in 2013, manages the project for a diagnostic imaging centre named “Centro di Alta Diagnostica per Immagini”. This project is consistent with Fondazione Roma’s well-established relationship with the city of Latina and surrounding area, confirming its commitment to the Pontine District and is another amongst the many ongoing or completed undertakings in the fields of Health, Scientific Research and Education.

The Centre will be built in the satellite Campus of ‘La Sapienza University of Rome’, located in Latina and shall operate on the basis of agreements with various universities where the most competent radiologists and clinicians will manage the very complex scientific research protocols. The strong point of the Centre will be the state of the art equipment such as 3T MRI/PET and Force CT scanners, which are currently found in only a few European facilities. The cutting edge 3T MRI/PET detects tumoral lesions and other diseases earlier, which may then be treated promptly with appropriate medication, radiation or surgery.

Fondazione Roma Supports Scientific Research Socio-economic Research

The financial crisis has clearly emphasised the inadequacy of the traditional Welfare State, which needs to be thoroughly updated, remodelled and rationalised by eliminating misspending, radically streamlining bureaucracy and politics and, above all, introducing courageous reform policies.

In order to pursue a concrete and sustainable programmatic approach to address this issue and acting as a think tank, on the wave of the Chairman’s constant undertakings and theoretical reflections conducted in his book entitledIl terzo pilastro. Il non profit motore del nuovo welfare (The third pillar. Non-profit organizations drive the new welfare system), Fondazione Roma has demonstrated that Italy has a unique wealth that could regenerate the welfare system, the variegated world of the Third Sector. This sector embodies the best side of the country and intends to directly attend to the needs of the community without waiting for intervention from above. The Foundation also held two international conferences in 2010 and 2011 that highlighted the ambitious British Big Society project.

In order to propose a sustainable welfare model, based on the significant contribution of the ‘Third Pillar’, the Foundation has accomplished a project called Wel.Com.E. Welfare for Community Empowerment. Beside theory and research, the project included experimental civic engagement activities that aim to enhance and protect the common good in Castel di Guido, a rural area in the suburbs of Rome which, albeit rich in natural resources and landscapes, has been abandoned by the local institutions and exposed to degradation for many years. Fondazione Roma concurrently supported a research project performed by Fondazione Rosselli that aimed to analyse the financial sustainability of the civil welfare model, which implies that the ‘Third Pillar’ shall play a major role, considering the budget constraints imposed on Italy as a member of the European Union and consequent reduction of public funds. The study mainly focused on the welfare policies and services for children in the Lazio Region. Urgent Needs in Education: Education Grants for Schools and Universities

Investing in education and training means investing in people and their future, promoting economic growth, increasing productivity, encouraging social progress and contributing to the reduction of inequality. In recent years these fundamental sectors have regrettably been largely neglected in Italy’s economic policies. Consequently schools and universities struggle to keep abreast of the times and to provide quality education to youths, which will enable them to enter the competitive workforce.

In order to address this urgency, Fondazione Roma has of late established an innovative project whereby grants are issued to State primary, secondary and high schools in the Province of Rome, Latina and Frosinone to update or create new labs, purchase modern equipment and technologies, multimedia stations, interactive whiteboards together with other latest generation tools to be used during the daily educational activities.

Considering that technological equipment may quickly become obsolete, the Foundation’s commitment to schools has recently been extended through a new grant programme that aims to enable these institutes to continue to update their educational technology.

Universities are also benefitting from the Foundation’s grants issued for the purpose of raising the quality of education, countering deferral and withdrawal and contributing to the improvement of career prospects for new graduates. Five State universities (La Sapienza, Tor Vergata, Roma Tre, Foro Italico and Cassino) are presently in the complex process of modernising and developing equipment in the lecture halls, libraries and laboratories; expanding and consolidating their network infrastructure in order distribute and use digital contents in all working areas; increasing e-learning services and purchasing high technology tools that meet the students’ and educational current requirements, particularly concerning technical and scientific subjects. Education Postgraduate University Courses

The Foundation’s commitment to Education includes postgraduate university courses. As established by the Chairman, Fondazione Roma supports two successful master’s degree courses: ‘Experts in Politics and International Relations’ and ‘Management of Artistic and Cultural Resources’.

The former, which has been held in the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA) for the past ten years, aims to engage youths in national, international and diplomatic politics and to train professionals who are capable of meeting the needs of modern society by implementing rational strategies of intervention. As from the academic year 2009/2010, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recognised this course as suitable training for the entrance examination for a career in the Diplomatic Corps.

In 2010, in association with the IULM (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione), Fondazione Roma fostered and organised the Master’s degree course in ‘Management of Artistic and Cultural Resources’ held in its offices in Palazzo Cipolla. This course aims to train qualified managers and professionals in the field of artistic and cultural resources by providing a broad education ranging from humanities to the development of specific managerial skills, which are indispensible to sustain cultural projects over time.

An employment survey revealed that seventy per cent of graduates find employment in prestigious museums or cultural institutions within six months, proving this course is effective. In order to complete and increase its commitment, the Foundation is promoting with IULM a new post-graduate course in oriental languages such as Arab and Chinese, which will start in the academic year 2015-16. Fondazione Roma Supports Education Persecuted Peoples

There is no future without knowledge of the past; it is impossible to look ahead without raising public awareness of historical events. For this reason Fondazione Roma has, in time, promoted a series of projects that aimed to commemorate the past atrocities and warn the new generations. In particular, the Foundation supported the accomplishment of projects and events dedicated to the peoples and ethnic groups that in the course of history endured abuse and persecution, to an extent that endangered their very existence.

The first project on this theme dates back to the 24th January 2004 when, ahead of the Holocaust Memorial Day which, since its inception in 2000, is held on the 27th of January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma held a concert devoted to this tragic event.

Subsequently, on the 24th April 2008, the anniversary of the deportation and genocide of the Armenian people, the Foundation contributed to the accomplishment of a commemorative event held in the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome, consisting of the theatre piece ‘Pietre Urlanti (Screaming Stones)’ and a classical music concert performed by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma.

In 2008 the Foundation also supported a film review, titled Dal‘ Silenzio alla Speranza (From Silence to Hope)’, which presented a series of documentary films on Cambodia. A performance commemorating the mass killing of Native Americans ‘Ascolta il canto del vento. Il destino degli Indiani d’America (Listen to the song of the wind. The destiny of American Indians)’, was held in the Teatro Sistina in 2009.

In the same year a relationship with the Jewish community of Rome, led to the publication of book entitled ‘Anni spezzati (The broken years)’, which reconstructs the Holocaust through the true story of four Italian Jewish youths.

In the field of Education the Foundation supports a project established by the Department of Education and Equal opportunities of the Municipality of Rome, whereby pupils of several secondary high schools in Rome participate in the ‘Remembrance Journeys’ to Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Jewish quarters of Krakow.

The Foundation likewise contributes to the organisation of Remembrance journeys to Friuli Venezia-Giulia and Istria, for the purpose of reminding youths of the Istria exodus and the foibe massacres, the karst sinkholes in which Yugoslav partisans and soldiers buried thousands of Italian civilians and servicemen, victims of ethnic cleansing, the result of a political criminal scheme. Art and Culture Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei

Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei operates in five fields: Visual Arts, Poetry, Dancing, Drama and Publishing. This Foundation creates and implements both permanent and temporary activities related to the museum and exhibitions; literary and theatrical projects; social events such as conferences, research, training courses and educational debates and also produces artistic and cultural publications and multimedia items.

This Foundation’s major undertaking is Fondazione Roma Museo, a museum established in 1999 by the Chairman of Fondazione Roma, who is convinced that culture, in the broadest and highest sense, is the principal tool to bring nations together and facilitate intercultural dialogue, encourage social inclusion, community involvement and personal development and to form consciences. In conclusion culture is today’s ‘clean energy’.

The projects created by Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei intend to increase the artistic and cultural offer in Rome, following a procedure that aims to build bridges for dialogue between nations and cultures, which although distant from Italy are equally interesting and remarkable, through the language of the arts.

The Foundation’s projects are managed either independently or in partnership with private and public, national and international, bodies and institutions whose undertakings pursue purposes consistent with its own.

Art and Culture Museo Fondazione Roma

Fondazione Roma Museo was established in 1999 upon the initiative of the Chairman of Fondazione Roma, Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele.

To date forty-six exhibitions have been held in association with the world’s most famous and prestigious museums for the purpose of presenting to visitors the periods and styles of Italian, European and international art.

The cultural programme principally aimed to illustrate the importance of the Eternal City in the world’s culture and enhance its priceless historical and artistic heritage, as documented by the exhibitions focused on ‘The Fifteenth Century in Rome. The Renaissance of Art from Donatello to Perugino (Il ’400 a Roma. La Rinascita delle Arti da Donatello a Perugino)’ - 2008; the eighteenth century with ‘Rome and Antiquity. Reality and Vision in the Eighteenth Century (Roma e l’Antico. Realtà e Visione nel ‘700)’ - 2010-2011 - and the opening to the centrality of Rome in the British artistic experience with ‘Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner. British Painting and the Rise of Modernity (Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner. Pittura inglese verso la modernità)’ - 2014.

The exhibition ‘The Renaissance in Rome. A token to and Raphael (Il Rinascimento a Roma. Nel segno di Michelangelo e Raffaello)’ - 2011-2012 - was dedicated to the sixteenth century.

‘Baroque in Rome. The Wonder of the Arts (Barocco a Roma. La meraviglia delle arti)’- 2015 - focused on the seventeenth century. This was an exhibition and a cultural operation that intended to enhance the capital city’s historical, artistic and architectural Baroque heritage, through a rich series of satellite events.

The exhibition ‘Naples’s Treasure. Masterpieces from the Museum of Saint Januarius (Il Tesoro di Napoli. I capolavori del Museo di San Gennaro)’ - 2013-2014 - was of great cultural moment. The most precious ornaments belonging to the Saint’s treasure including the Mitre and Necklace kept in the caveau of the Banco di Napoli were exhibited to visitors for the first time.

Since Professor Emanuele believes that art is the main tool for intercultural dialogue, the Museo Fondazione Roma opened to cultures distant from that of the West, such as the Forbidden City in China (Masterpieces from the Forbidden City. Qianlong and his Court); Hiroshige’s Japan (Hiroshige. The Master of Nature) and Akbar’s India (Akbar. The Great Emperor of India).

The commitment to contemporary art from Italy was also considerable through the exhibitions Sante Monachesi (2010); Pablo Echaurren|Crhomo Sapiens (2010-2011); The unrepeatable nineteen sixties. A dialogue between Rome and (2011) and from overseas with the retrospectives dedicated to Edward Hopper (2010), Georgia O’Keeffe (2011-2012), Louise Nevelson (2013) and Norman Rockwell (2014-2015). Ritratti di Poesia Art and Culture (Portraits of Poetry)

Should anyone question the importance of poetry today, in the age of mass information and syncopated language, they may find the answer in history. What idea of the Great War would we have without Ungaretti’s poetry? How would we reconstruct the cultural fervour in nineteenth-century France without verses by Rimbaud and Verlaine, or in late twentieth-century America without the words of Ginsberg and Corso? How much less would we know of Franco’s dictatorship without the pages written by Garcia Lorca or of the Soviet totalitarianism deprived of Pasternak’s verses? Furthermore, what would the Italian language be without poems by Dante, and Boccaccio?

After all, poetry does not have only an artistic and cultural value, it also has an intrinsic ethical meaning, nor is it merely aesthetic, since, as John Keats wrote, “Beauty is truth”. The annual event, held in January, entitled “Ritratti di Poesia (Portraits of Poetry)” was established on this basis.

The review, launched in 2007 by the Chairman of Fondazione Roma, is one of the most important events held during the winter in Rome and, reflecting the development of poetry, constantly evolves. Attention is paid both to contemporaneity and the history of literature by involving important authors from Italy and abroad, young talents, actors and musicians in an original mixture of meetings, discussions, readings, ideas, verses and voices.

The Fondazione Roma - Ritratti di Poesia Prize, awarded to a poet who has promoted Italian culture abroad; The Fondazione Roma- Ritratti di Poesia International Prize, assigned to a universal poet, the Ritratti di Poesia 140 Prize, introduced in 2014 to experiment poetry in short 140 character Tweets and the performance ‘Poesia e canzone d’autore (Poetry and singer-songwriters)’ held by singer- songwriters such as Roberto Vecchioni, Lucio Dalla and Francesco De Gregori, were amongst the innovations introduced in recent years. Commitment to Solidarity Terzo Pilastro - Italia and the Mediterranean Region e Mediterraneo Fondazione Terzo Pilastro - Italia e Mediterraneo, incorporates the value of solidarity and its function as a trait d’union between Mediterranean cultures and civil society. This Foundation operates in the social, health, education, cultural and artistic fields, supports scientific and welfare research in Central and mainly in Southern Italy and the Mediterranean Basin.

The Foundation is driven by two missions that aim to combine its traditional undertakings for development and attention to social needs at a local level with a global perspective of the urgent issues in the contemporary world, especially those involving countries overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, with respect to which it plans to become the driving force behind creative ideas and proposals.

The first mission intends to facilitate the work of non-profit organizations by rewarding projects that produce goods and services with a high social impact, whilst performing an ‘educational’ and subsidiary function to the ‘Third Pillar’, and aims to develop a modern ‘civil’ welfare model that meets the community’s needs.

The Foundation’s second mission is to attend to the countries overlooking the Mediterranean by launching projects that build bridges for dialogue and emphasise the wealth of diverse cultures and traditions for the purpose, as the Chairman underlines, of reviving the anthropological and historical principles of the Mediterranean civilisation and settling its disagreements with the neighbouring East through the language of beauty and culture, which is the most effective tool. In conclusion, through the aforementioned missions this Foundation constitutes significant evidence of the ability to adapt its structure and operating procedures to the needs arising from the economic- financial crisis, which has left increasing numbers of people and social classes unprotected, and to address the serious consequences of the violent destabilizing events that affect a vast stretch of North African coast, generating migration flows that Italy is now unable to manage alone, doleful and dramatic incidents, a further decline of the quality of life and security and even the denial of human dignity.

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