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Research Foundations

Research foundations are non-profit organizations which can carry out their activities either directly or through various Universities, research organizations, or other foundations that carry out such work directly.

Fondazione Rosselli
The Fondazione Rosselli, founded in Torino in 1988, is an independent research institute, the main activity of which is research, based on and applied in the economic, social, and political fields, with particular attention toward European public policies. Its goal is to create a think tank for the main public policy decision-making institutions, in order to give answers to questions about government and the economic system regarding several topics crucial for the future of Italy and Europe.
www.fondazionerosselli.it

Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli
The Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli (Giovanni Agnelli Foundation) is a private institute of culture and research which works in the field of humanities and the social sciences. The foundation works by activating multi-year projects, aimed at reaching specific cultural goals through a series of complex activities, which are, above all, in research and in cultural communication/promotion.
www.fga.it

Fondazione per le Biotecnologie (Biotechnologies Foundation)
Established in 1991 by the Regione Piemonte, the Regione Valle d’Aosta, the Fondazione San Paolo, and the Fiat Group, it attends to stimulating the development of biotechnology in the northeast part of the country. The Foundation is particularly active in specific technical training, in the application of biotechnology, and in the promotion of research activities.
www.fobiotech.org

Fondazione ISI
The Institute Foundation for Scientific Interchange is an independent institution, whose goal is to promote, organize, and independently guide scientific research. The sectors of research are focused, in particular, on the physics of complexity, the structure of matter, quantum computation, and nanotechnology. The Regione Piemonte, the Provincia di Torino, and the C.R.T. are founding members.
www.isi.it

Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
The Fondazione was created in 1964 with the goal of creating a cultural institution able to put a large cultural heritage in the socio-economic sciences to good use with the greatest operating flexibility possible. The Fondazione is a centre where research and documentation activities complement each other.
www.fondazioneeinaudi.it

Fondazione Teobaldo Fenoglio
The Fondazione per l’Ambiente Teobaldo Fenoglio (Teobaldo Fenoglio Foundation for the Environment) promotes training, research, and communication in the field of the environment and environmental policies, with particular attention to the local area. The priority issues, with which it concerns itself, are: environmental education and communication, the promotion of natural resources and landscape, the integrated control and prevention of foreign and domestic environmental pollution, managing the cycle of waste, water, and energy within the context of local public service reforms, efficacy and efficiency of Public Administration activities in carrying out local environmental policies, and the evaluation of the economic and social effects of public policies in the environmental field.
www.fondazioneambiente.org

The Fondazione Fitzcarraldo
The Fondazione Fitzcarraldo is an independent design, research, training, and documentation centre in the management, economy, and policies of culture, art, and the media, fields where it contributes to the development, the diffusion, and the promotion of innovation and experimentation.
www.fitzcarraldo.it

Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto
The Collegio Carlo Alberto is a foundation, established on April 27, 2004 through an initiative by the Compagnia di San Paolo and by the Università degli Studi di Torino, which has the goal of “promoting, managing, and strengthening research and high level training in the economic, financial, and economic-juridical fields, as well as in related areas of study”. It maintains the name of the real estate complex where it is located in Moncalieri, at the gates of Torino: the Real Collegio Carlo Alberto, established in 1838.
www.carloalberto.org






Places

La “Bollente” di Acqui Terme

This is an elegant, octagonal temple-structure inaugurated in 1879. This eclectic structure has a spring where sulfuric-salty-bromine-iodic water flows at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius.

Castello di Aglič

This sumptuous home was built, beginning in 1646 following a design by Amedeo di Castellamonte, by Filippo d’Aglie, statesman, literary man, choreographer, and adviser to Madama Reale, on the ruins of an ancient fortress.

Historical Wine Cellars in Canelli

The wine cellars – which hold ancient barrels perfectly lined-up – have brick arches, lowered large round arches connected to each other by tunnels that reach into the layers and strata of earth which have formed over the centuries.



People

Stefania Rocca

Stefania Rocca

"My father used to work at Fiat. I never saw Torino as a limitation. It’s an elegant city. The fog has never caused me to be anxious or sad. My mother used to say that it helps us to look at ourselves inside."

Nanni Moretti

"It seems to me that Torino had a rush of pride with the winter Olympics; I remember that during that time, I would hear a lot of people surprised at the city’s reawakening: that feeling is still there."

Roberto Capucci

“Torino is an aristocratic city, not a scoundel. You natives are spared because there is not too much tourism and this is a great fortune. There is a class to this city that no longer exists elsewhere. I’m reminded of a woman like Rita Levi Montalcini, for whom I have designed over 50 dresses”.