Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Institutional activities in 2004
Scientific, economic and juridical research
In 2004 the Compagnia financed other initiatives, such as those in favour of the Turin Medical
Academy, for its conference and publication activities and those of the Turin Virtuality Organisation
Committee for the annual international Conference on the virtual world and multimedia.
Economic and juridical research
In 2004 the Compagnia supported 86 initiatives in the field of Economic and Juridical Research (76
in 2003), and awarded a grant of approximately € 10.5 million, compared to € 11.1 million in 2003.
Economic and public policy studies
The major event of 2004 can be considered the constitution – in partnership with the University of
Turin – of the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation, one of the Compagnia’s permanent organisations
which replaces the Consortium of the same name and which in the first few months of activities has
started to equip itself to develop an independent capacity for scientific offering, widening and
rationalising the functions available to the centres housed in the Carlo Alberto and adapting the
building for the research and high-level training activities which will be performed there.
SiTI - Istituto Superiore sui Sistemi Territoriali per l’Innovazione (Higher Institute for Territorial
Systems for Innovation) – the other permanent organisation with interdisciplinary character
operating in the area of public policy – implemented during 2004, inter alia, several territorial safety
projects connected to urban development initiatives and improvements in artistic and
environmental heritage; furthermore SiTI has assisted with the monitoring of projects supported by
the Compagnia.
Alongside support for the institutional activities of the Carlo Alberto Centres, the Compagnia has
promoted co-operation with other scientific counterparts on subjects of interest for matters
connected to the future of the North West of Italy, social policy and European governance.
In 2004 the Study and Research Association for Southern Italy of Naples, to which the Compagnia
is associated, reached its full working capacity; during the year projects were supported in
industrial districts in Campania and on the dynamics of internationalisation of Southern Italy in cooperation
with the IAI - Istituto Affari Internazionali.
In the field of interest relating to immigration and citizens’ rights, in which the point of reference is
represented by FIERI (International and European Forum for Research on Immigration) having its
headquarters in Turin, focus was placed on the analysis and development of policy proposals on
Turin and the future of the North-West of Italy
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The Compagnia gives particular attention to analysis and
research activities on the development of the socialeconomic
fabric of the North-West of Italy and primarily in
the Turin metropolitan area. From this point of view, the
Compagnia supports the Annual Report on Turin promoted
by Eau Vive and by the Giorgio Rota Committee. The Report,
which has reached its fourth edition, seeks to sum up, also
on the basis of a vast amount of statistical data, on the “state
of health” of the city and outline scenarios for the near future.
The Rota Committee furthermore produces research
focussed on the real situation of Turin: recently it passed
from the economic and demographical dimensions, with
Numeri per Torino (Numbers for Turin) to the analysis of the
conditions necessary to continue Produrre a Torino
(Produce in Turin). In 2004 the Compagnia provided a grant
of € 210,000 for the Fifth and Sixth Reports. The
Compagnia has supported the Torino Internazionale
association since its inception. The association deals with
the strategic plan for the city. In 2004 the grant was of
€ 150,000. It has also continued the activities of the
Observatory on the Future of the North West, with the
support, inter alia, from the Compagnia (with an initial
contribution of € 75,000 at the end of 2002, and a second
grant of € 35,000 at the beginning of 2005).