Our core belief is the importance of learning. Ever since the first scholarships in the 1980s, our key aim has been to encourage and promote learning
Pier Giorgio Frassati Travel Scholarship (“PGFTS”)
The PGFTS was founded in 1991 and is awarded each year to a student at Pembroke College. Pier Giorgio Frassati was Pietrojan’s great uncle. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 20 May 1990 and has since become the patron of Catholic students. He died aged 24 in 1925 after a short but intense life.
For more information about Pier Giorgio, see the Wikipedia article
Funding more “Cleaning Up”
We have teamed up with Liebreich Associates to develop 40 episodes of Cleaning Up. Once a week Michael Liebreich will have a conversation with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance or sustainable development. The interviews are with exceptional leaders in the low carbon transition with a mixture of entrepreneurs, academics, policy advisers, adventurers as well as government officials.
The interviews will cover both technical aspects as well reasons to be hopeful or pessimistic with how the world is making progress with climate change or with adapting to it.
Funding of the Scuola Italiana a Londra
The Scuola Italiana a Londra was founded Francesca Nelson Smith, a university friend of Pietrojan Gilardini. She worked on it for several years before the school opened in September 2010.