Dompé Foundation: over EUR 2.6 million for study support between Italy and the USA

Fondazione Dompé renews its commitment to support second and third level university education with 56 new scholarships for the 2025/2026 academic year, for a total investment of €2.64 million. The study support programme is confirmed as one of the pillars of the Dompé Foundation's mission: to promote access to higher education and contribute to the development of the scientific and technological skills needed to face global challenges, in the name of multidisciplinarity, internationality, research and innovation. With an allocation of EUR 1,275,000, the Dompé Foundation will fund 32 scholarships at some of Italy's most prestigious universities. These include the consolidation of the collaboration with the University of Pavia, which will see the awarding of eight scholarships for the Master's Degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies and three new three-year scholarships worth a total of 225,000 euros for the Doctorate in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Industrial Innovation. "At a time when complexity is growing along with the urgency for new solutions, the task we wanted to entrust to the Dompé Foundation is to support the new generations that have the courage to imagine the future and build it with competence, rigour and passion," said Sergio Dompé, chairman of the Dompé Foundation. "With these scholarships we want to offer a concrete opportunity, but also a message of confidence: science can be a formidable emancipation tool. This is why we will continue to invest in those who choose to expand the boundaries of knowledge'.

In Italy, the scholarships include the innovative six-year degree course of the MedTec School offered by Humanitas University and the Milan Polytechnic, the master's degrees of the Universities of Trento (Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology), Bologna (Pharmaceutical Biotechnology), Padua (Bioengineering), Bari (Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine) and the State University of Milan (Biomedical Omics). For the US market, the Foundation has earmarked an allocation of EUR 1,363,636 for 24 scholarships named after Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine. The scholarships are intended for students admitted to Master's, PhD or Research Fellowship programmes in neuroscience or neurobiology at US universities. With these awards, Fondazione Dompé reaches a total of more than 240 scholarships funded since 2020 and brings the cumulative allocation in Italy and the USA to more than 13.5 million euros.