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SIAD Sestini Foundation

The foundation

SIAD Sestini Foundation has been supporting science, art and history since 1987. By promoting scholarships for young doctors and students, supporting the realization of events and initiatives to enhance and safeguard the cultural heritage, and activating synergies with the territory, it contributes to scientific progress and social welfare.

Sestini Museum of Photography

Since 1987, SIAD Sestini Foundation has sponsored cultural initiatives, including the creation of a photography museum.

The Sestini Museum of Photography, inaugurated in 2018, enhances its photographic heritage with an interdisciplinary exhibition itinerary, dedicated to the world of historical photography, and divided into two sections: one scientific and one historical.

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Tender to Nave Italia Onlus Foundation

The SIAD Group and SIAD Sestini Foundation are promoting partners of the TENDER TO NAVE ITALIA Onlus Foundation. The “Nave Italia Method” is aimed at people with cognitive disabilities, sensory deficits, genetic diseases, mental and social distress, in the various forms in which it manifests itself.
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BergamoScienza

BergamoScienza is Bergamo's science popularization festival that aims to bring science “to the streets,” making it available to everyone, especially young people and schools. SIAD Group and SIAD Fondazione Sestini have been supporting BergamoScienza as partners for several years.
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Teatro Donizetti Foundation

The SIAD Group and SIAD Fondazione Sestini are partners of the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo's illustrious internationally renowned Teatro di Tradizione, named after the famous local composer Gaetano Donizetti.

The Foundation is dedicated to supporting the theater's activities, including taking care of the necessary structural upgrades.

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Legler Foundation for the Economic and Social History of Bergamo

The SIAD Sestini Foundation actively participates in the Legler Foundation for the Economic and Social History of Bergamo, contributing to the enhancement of business memory. Among the activities supported is the preservation of the SIAD Archives, a significant testimony of Bergamo's industrial fabric.
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Other projects of the Foundation

  • Three-year support (2021-2023) International Heart School Bergamo scholarship for young doctors from developing countries for a Master's degree at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo

  • Support for the International Academy of Bergamo for Advanced Medical Sciences

  • Organisation of the International Study Day on the applications of Xenon in anaesthesia and numerous other conferences on the subject

  • University of Bergamo Scholarship for research entitled ‘The economic history of Bergamo and its territory: research and teaching paths’

  • Acquisition of the Asperti (Bergamo and the Bergamasca area), Pesenti (origins of aviation in Bergamo and Italy) and Lucchetti (film and photographic archive) photographic archives

  • Organisation of the exhibitions ‘La Città Visibile’ (The Visible City) and ‘BergamoBrescia Cultura d'Impresa’ (BergamoBrescia Business Culture)

  • Membership of the Bergamo nella Storia Foundation

  • Establishment of the ‘Prof. Quirino Sestini and Dr. Bernardo Sestini’ scholarships for students of the Giulio Natta Institute in Bergamo

  • Cattaneo, 1985

    Opus Pro Dino Sestini

    The sculpture Opus Pro Dino Sestini, created in copper by artist Piero Cattaneo, is a tribute to the figure of Roberto Sestini, president of the SIAD Group. The work encompasses in a harmonious composition his great passions: the sea and sailing, evoked by fluid and undulating forms; technology, represented by gears reminiscent of the industrial world; and a love of art and history, reflected in the care and symbolic depth of the entire structure.

    From this sculpture comes the logo of the SIAD Sestini Foundation, which takes up its contours as a sign of continuity between personal vision and cultural commitment of the SIAD Group. The work is not only a tribute to Sestini's memory, but also a tangible symbol of the values the foundation aims to promote.

    The work is currently located at the SIAD Group headquarters in Bergamo.

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