MISSION

Alessandro Volta Foundation intends to build its institutional activities drawing inspiration and suggestions both from its genesis and from the statute of the institution; all this in an overall interpretation, able to pay the statutory mandate with the proximity to the territory to generate an effective and concrete benefit to the citizenship of Como.
In this sense, the idea of civitas is prevalent, understood as a tool for the growth of human capital and as a criterion for assessing the effectiveness of the actions deployed by the Alessandro Volta Foundation. In modern times, in relation to global challenges, the impact on the territory must be represented by a virtuous interplay between economic and cultural possibilities, in the awareness of current and future challenges and scenarios, imagined and guided starting from the awareness of the role of each in the community of belonging. For this reason, the activity of Alessandro Volta Foundation must be shared with its members, generating a place of convergence and fertile discussion for the city with all stakeholders.
In promoting the development of science and knowledge, a vital aspect of every activity will be culture, understood as a personal and collective educational aspect, that can take pride in the creative genius of our illustrious fellow citizens of the past and the present to project themselves in a sustainable and humane future.
An important corollary of this approach is the desire to generate education, understood as the desire to confer intellectual, spiritual and moral values, especially for young people and the family.
Culture, education and civitas become, therefore, synonyms when man becomes the center, the symbolic crucible in which the actions indicated converge to allow the humankind to aspire to the improvement of itself and of the surrounding world.