Fondazione Cariplo receives award from the President of Italy
On the morning of October 24, 2016 at Quirinale Palace, the President of Italy Sergio Mattarella presented Fondazione Cariplo’s President Giuseppe Guzzetti with an award for the Foundation’s support to Scientific Research. The award ceremony was part of a rich program of initiatives held on AIRC Cancer Research Days and the award honored our Foundation’s unfaltering commitment together with the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) over these past years to cancer research through Trideo TRansforming IDEas in Oncology research award.
Award citation:
"To Fondazione Cariplo for choosing, together with AIRC, to invest in TRIDEO, a program supporting talented young investigators and their cutting edge projects for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. TRIDEO has given twenty three investigators tangible support for transformative cancer research by taking a fresh approach, one that joins research, exploration and risk to find answers to a disease that in some of its forms is still little curable."
Trideo supports frontier research i.e. research in which others may not invest for its risk of failure but that when successful can transform people’s lives. “It is our mission” – said Giuseppe Guzzetti – “and we have found in AIRC, that I thank, a unique, irreplaceable partner: this award is to be shared with those who, like AIRC, have always been committed on this front. It is to AIRC that we owe much of the great progress made in the fight against cancer.”
“I thank President Mattarella for this present” – added Guzzetti – “It couldn’t but come in a year like this one: December 16 will be Fondazione Cariplo’s 25th anniversary. Throughout these years with its philanthropic activities our Foundation has supported more than 30,000 projects with over €2.8 billion. Fondazione Cariplo has at heart support to research and to young investigators. Since 1991 in this area we have had 1,764 projects carried out by leading universities and research organizations, and provided €421 million in funds, standing by 4,000 researchers.”
Our commitment to scientific research
Fondazione Cariplo has always been committed to supporting science. Now it is launching Stories of this world | Cariplo Science a new communication endeavor covering the numerous meaningful projects Fondazione Cariplo has funded through its Scientific Research area since 2000. In the development of the original concept, our Foundation was joined by Meet the Media Guru working in synergy with Milan’s Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology, who have engaged a large team of visual designers, content curators and video-makers. In the 16 years since it established its Scientific Research Program Area, Fondazione Cariplo has supported projects in 5 macro-areas: Agro-food; Environmental Science and Biotechnologies; Science & Society; Physics, Chemistry & Engineering; Biomedicine. A large number of initiatives and data, and themes that do not always lend themselves to be easily simplified to be made easily understandable by lay people. It was therefore decided to take a visual approach and use interactive infographics to make numbers become narratives that can be explored at will. Navigation is interactive: clicking inside each particle people can learn more about each research work, and in some instances enjoy a video-interview with the scientist who conducted that project. We’ve asked researchers to be storytellers in relating their work in the interviews, all of which can be viewed on Fondazione Cariplo’s YouTube profile. As indicated in a recent EU directive, those engaged in research need to communicate their work to society, providing information about their research and listening to public needs in a continuous osmotic flow. The first in Italy to do so, Fondazione Cariplo in its Scientific Research program area has embraced this EU direction, tying its funding to research communication.