Arpa Foundation
Arpa Foundation is a no profit organization due for social benefit (ONLUS). It was founded in 1992 by Franco Mosca, MD, Professor Emeritus in Surgery. Its goal is the research and education foster in several healthcare branches. It was created after a personal initiative of Franco Mosca, who at that time was Director of General Surgery and Transplants Division at Pisa University.
Maestro Andrea Bocelli desired to be Honorary President: he is a worldwide famous artist, a messenger of Italy around the world, a man of uncommon personal awareness. He recognized in Arpa Foundation a proper vehicle to support health workers in their struggle against the pain due to the loss of a primary good: health.
Lately the Maestro resolutely requested Arpa to launch a pain-fighting long term project.
Our story
Arpa Foundation gets its power from voluntary donations, personal involvement, sharing and support. Arpa Foundation resources are aimed towards basic and scientific research, mainly for oncology, transplants and new medical and surgical techniques.
In the years, the foundation has implemented its commitment in the training of various healthcare experts, both in Italy and in developing Countries.
Arpa Foundation acknowledges that its main target is strengthening its values; it helps pushing citizens to be active part in the public healthcare system growth; it encourages professional training and update opportunities; it looks after a never ending proficiency improvement of healthcare workers, to preserve health in our County, but not just that.
Arpa is committed to involve the youngsters, to work them up towards the less fortunate.
Arpa Foundation works by means of:
- scholarship loans, project prices, projects research contracts for works well identified in terms of schedule and purpose.
- quick purchase of biologic and technical laboratory instruments.
- quick acquisition of technologies for prompt update of medical tasks.
The foundation’s priority is nowadays funding the education and update of doctors, healthcare assistants and of any other person involved into healthcare thematic. During the years the Foundation has granted the education of a huge number of doctors from the Scuola Pisana at eminent European and North Americans Institutions (transplants, vascular surgery, oncologic surgery, gastroenterology, anaesthesiology, hepatology, new medicine techniques, basic sciences and healthcare economics). It helped to build up the operational environment such that, once back home, they would be enabled to work at the very best, making the most of the skills they acquired abroad. All of this generates growth. Arpa foundation demands a commitment from these young people: that they make available their knowledge and ability to whom, also in developing Countries, still hasn’t had the chances they already achieved.
