Promoting Change at the University of Bologna: Amplifying the Impact of Every Contribution

The daily effort of the University of Bologna for education, research and innovation is always directed at producing actions favouring the collective good - from supporting the right to higher education for all students to innovative research projects such as the Genome 21 project, one of the most authoritative projects on Down syndrome at the national level. Most of all, anyone can become a protagonist of these actions by offering their contribution.

Indeed, supporting the University of Bologna with a donation allows you to amplify the impact of every single generous gesture. The ways to do that and all the initiatives you can contribute to are gathered in a dedicated online space, the Unimpatto website. Here, you can explore the regularly updated actions you can take to support the University. You can also check the progress of the funded projects and find out how each donation made an impact.

A contribution to the University of Bologna is a significant gesture to ensure the right to education. You could fund study grants, offering to worthy students the opportunity to carry on their studies, regardless of their economic status. Or you could help provide subsidies to cover rent and healthcare costs, and fund new subsidies for students studying away from home.

In addition, you could support independent and multidisciplinary research. Today, with a donation, you can support the Genome 21 project, which explores new therapeutic approaches to improve the quality of life for people affected by Down syndrome. The project, involving 280 children aged between 3 and 16 years old, is among the largest experimental clinical trials on this topic.

Last but not least, the University of Bologna is the keeper of a historic and valuable cultural heritage, which is preserved in an attempt to bridge past and future. You can help in this matter by contributing to the restoration and preservation of the collections housed in the Specola Museum, characterised by the tall Tower in the heart of Bologna and a collection of ancient tools used in the past centuries to observe, study and understand the sky.

Supporting the restoration of the Specola Museum falls under the so-called Art Bonus, which provides benefits in terms of tax credit. However, bear in mind that all donations to the University of Bologna are deductible, offering access to various forms of tax relief.