We support culture as an essential component of individual growth and sustainable development. We invest in skills-building, to enable professionals and organisations respond to the needs of communities. We believe that cultural experience can nurture healthy, conscious life pathways full of opportunities, and help reduce inequalities from birth: that is why we aim to bring widespread exposure to cultural experience, from an early age into educational and care settings.
We view culture as an essential component of individual growth and sustainable development and we strive to ensure that it is suitably equipped to fulfil this role. We see investing in skills-building as a means of helping professionals and organisations respond to the needs of communities. We aspire to widespread, early dissemination of cultural experience in educational and care contexts, integrated into local services and opportunities, so that it nourishes healthy, well-informed life pathways with plentiful possibilities and helps reduce inequalities.

Our work is divided into various areas of intervention.

Developing skills

The Developing skills mission contributes to achieving the following Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 4 – Quality education
SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth
SDG 10 Reduce inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, justice, and strong institutions
SDG 17 Partnerships for the goals
The Developing Skills Mission operates under the umbrella of the Culture Goal to promote the development of professional, social, emotional, relational and cognitive skills.
By enhancing these abilities, culture is a useful resource for addressing global challenges, such as sustainable development and reducing inequalities.
Thanks to data analysis, mapping, evaluations and pilot experiments conducted in the four-year period 2021-2024, we can now reinforce this trajectory and upscale operations for the benefit of the catchment area.

Professionals working in and for culture

We provide professionals working in and for culture, with a particular focus on women and young people, with training and professional qualification  and career pathways designed to enable them to promote and deliver growth in the cultural sector and its role in the sustainable development of the catchment area.

We remain committed to supporting the cultural, artistic and creative professions. The knowledge base is underpinned by the mapping carried out in North-West Italy in 2021 regarding professions and their training needs, backed up by 3 years of support for projects aimed at providing training and equipping people for careers in the cultural sector, by enhancing cross-cutting skills and creating a network of cultural training organisations.

 

Alongside this work, our actions in 2025-28 will be more focused on professionalisation,  career pathways and the conditions that enable professionals to carry out their work to best effect and with satisfaction, including in terms of their life trajectories.

Solidity and sustainability of cultural bodies

We encourage the development of cultural bodies, in accordance with principle of social responsibility and sustainable development, within the framework of the Green Transition, while giving priority to  ecosystemic change.

A cultural system capable of helping address current challenges has to be based on robust, sustainable organisations, equipped with adequate skills  and geared towards social responsibility. That is why we endeavour to help cultural bodies achieve sustainability and encourage their participation in the Green Transition, which will be the target of new actions in conjunction with the Environment Mission.

We also aim to boost organisations’ capacity to form networks and work cross-sectorally, in order to road-test new collaboration spaces and methods, while taking special care of long-term processes and stability. In these areas, we continue to attribute strategic importance to our collaboration with the Hangar Piemonte project launched by Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo.

 

Cultural opportunities for growth and education

We encourage the widespread and early penetration of active cultural experience into formal and informal educational contexts and educational communities, so that it can make a major contribution to personal growth and education and to reducing inequalities.

Culture is a resource that fosters the development and well-being of individuals, especially at the age when children start building their personality and imagining their role in the community. That is why we support projects that promote cultural opportunities in learning environments and educational communities, thus ensuring the continuity of innovative initiatives such as La Bella Stagione (the fine season) and contributing to the collegiate actions of the FCSP Group, such as the Strategia Education, with Ibridi (hybrids) for example.

Our efforts in major urban areas complement interventions scattered across the catchment area, which revolve around the systemic Cultura per Crescere (culture for growth) action, which is the evolution of our long-standing support for Nati per Leggere Piemonte (born to read Piedmont). By means of this action, we are investing in systemic growth centred upon libraries and geared towards early-years cultural welfare.
The musical education project Consonanze (consonances) developed alongside Fondazione per la Scuola will come to an end in 21-25, and its results will shape future iterations of the concept.