The Foundation is the result of a collective effort of the international network of colleagues, mentors, and friends to give voice to Alma’s intellectual legacy, as a person, a scientist, and as a musician.
The art. 2 of the Statute states: “The Foundation aims to preserve, promote and enhance the spirit and the scientific vision that characterized Alma Dal Co commitment to study, research, teaching and music.”
The Deed of Incorporation established the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and the Board of Directors (BOD). The engine and mind of the Foundation rests in the SAB, an international group of eminent scientists. The Board manages as to guarantee the actual and long term realization of the Foundation’s goals, with the help and control of the Auditor.
The Fondazione Alma Dal Co – Ente del Terzo Settore was established on September 11th 2023. The Foundation is ruled by the Third Sector Code (Legislative Decree. 117/2017) and by the Italian Civil Code.
The Foundation has its registered seat in the Municipality of Venice.
The Foundation pursues civic, solidarity and socially useful purposes.
The Foundation was launched and presented in Lausanne at the Alma Dal Co Memorial Symposium on November 15th, 2023 by prof. Jonathan Rosand, Coordinator of the Scientific Advisory Board, and in Venice at the Alma Dal Co Award and Concert on December 2nd 2023, by Andrea Rinaldo, member of the Board of Directors.
The Foundation’s logo
The logo represents Alma’s passions: science, music and the sea. Its central motif is a blue wave, connecting science and the sea — but it is also a musical ornament, the mordente. The mordente tells the performer to play the note with a rapid excursion above or below it, like a wave. The lettering uses a Bodoni typeface, designed by Giambattista Bodoni, one of the greatest type designers and printers of the 18th century.