Andrea Bocelli Foundation

ABF EDU Italy Program

This program promotes integrated education and care systems within schools (ages 0–19), public spaces, or buildings undergoing regeneration, supporting methodological and pedagogical innovation through the daily activities of ABF Art, Music & Digital Labs.

For ABF, caring for spaces is a pillar: we envision schools as community hubs that nurture both individual and collective talent.

To date, the Foundation has built 12 school facilities inspired by this vision.

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Locations

4,154,963

Beneficiaries

38,243,275

Allocated Funds

The Challenge
Too many children still lack access to quality education and learning environments that support their full development.

ABF’s Response
ABF Edu strengthens educational ecosystems through schools, learning spaces, and innovative methodologies that integrate art, music, and digital tools into everyday learning.

ABF Hub Educativo 0-11 di Sforzacosta
  • ABF EDU Italy
  • ABF EDU Program
  • Completed Projects

A new educational hub for children and communities still living with the impact of the 2016 earthquake.

The pilot project to realise the first space exclusively designed and aimed at education within hospitals is called ABF Educational Centre, and represents the 2nd step of the ABF H-Lab project.

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Andrea Bocelli Foudation - Ricostruzione Scuola 0-6 di Sforzacosta (MC)
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  • ABF EDU Program
  • Completed Projects

Reconstruction of the 0-6 School of Sforzacosta (MC)

The fifth intervention in the 2016 earthquake areas, ABF’s intervention took place at Sforzacosta, in the municipality of Macerata.

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Ricostruzione Istituto Professionale per l’Industria e l’Artigianato di San Ginesio
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  • ABF EDU Program
  • Ongoing Projects

Rebuilding the R. Frau Vocational School for Industry and Craftsmanship in San Ginesio, Marche – an area affected by the 2016 earthquake

After rebuilding the “G. Leopardi” Middle School in Sarnano, the “E. De Amicis” School Complex in Muccia and the “F. Corelli” Music Academy in Camerino, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation is dedicating a new project to the Marche region, to rebuild the IPSIA “R. FRAU” Vocational School, in San Ginesio (MC), which will see the construction of a school designed and developed according to the guidelines of the Foundation’s team of experts.

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  • ABF EDU Italy
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Reconstruction of Accademia Musicale of Camerino – Central Italy Earthquake Intervention

After building the ‘Giacomo Leopardi’ school in Sarnano and the pre-school and elementary school in Muccia, in the province of Macerata, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation has dedicated a new project in Camerino, in the Marche, to building the new Music Academy, which was destroyed by the earthquake swarm that hit Central Italy in 2016 and has continued to torment the area ever since.

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  • ABF EDU Italy
  • ABF EDU Program
  • Ongoing Projects

ABF Art, Music & Digital Labs in schools, reaching more than 400 students.

The Andrea Bocelli Foundation (ABF) has welcomed the “Zerosei Alessandro Bocelli Center” in Lajatico (Pisa) into its roster of projects that includes the building of educational centers and schools where the musical languages are encouraged, both as an educational tool for the children and as a source of aggregation and culture for the community.

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Investing in Teacher Excellence: a pioneering action-research pilot in Sarnano, an area affected by the 2016 earthquake

The experimental Research-Action “ABF Music Curriculum A-R Project” aims to initiate a process of renewal of the educational approach in the formal contexts of education and instruction from 3 to 14 years of age through an action of research and reflection on the resources offered by the languages of music within the school curriculum.

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Inaugurazione scuola primaria e dell’ infanzia “E. De Amicis” di Muccia
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  • ABF EDU Program
  • Completed Projects

Rebuilding Muccia pre-school and elementary school – Project Following on from the Central Italy Earthquake

After building the ‘Giacomo Leopardi’ school in Sarnano, in the province of Macerata, inaugurated last May and realized in just 150 days, Andrea Bocelli Foundation launches a new Project in Muccia, in the Marches, to rebuild the pre-school and the primary school “E. De Amicis” destroyed by the earthquake swarm that hit the Center of Italy in 2016 and which keeps tormenting that area.

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Ricostruzione Scuola Sarnano - Emergenza terremoto Centro Italia
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  • ABF EDU Program
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Rebuilding the Sarnano School – Center Italy earthquake emergency

The Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the Only The Brave Foundation, united in their desire to carry out tangible solidarity projects at an international level, are aiming to bring back a sense of normality to the futures of the many young people of Sarnano, a medieval village rich in history, located in the province of Macerata, whose artistic heritage has been severely affected by the earthquake.

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Summer camps offering workshops and new experiences for children in the earthquake-affected areas of central Italy.

After inaugurating the new “E. De Amicis” school complex, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation opened the first ABF Summer Camp in the facility, in order to immediately make it a place for meeting, research and discovery, where children – but also adults, teachers and parents – were able to share the pleasure of learning as a time for mutual growth, opportunity for self-care, care for the other people and for what surrounds us.

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ABF “Let’s play…Music together” Music Festival

The G. Leopardi Comprehensive Middle School in Sarnano and the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, one year after inaugurating the school that was restored to the community of Marche, featured on a special day that brought together 11 educational concerns of the area. Over 500 children, students coming from comprehensive music middle schools and from dance high schools in the Marche region, met at the educational building donated by ABF and by the “Only the Brave Foundation” (where the training building stood before being damaged by the 2016 earthquake) and then at the local sports hall, on Wednesday 29th, and they made music together by using the variety of instruments in the educational spaces dedicated to music and multimedia, which the school – thanks to the contribution of the SIAE – is equipped with. The schools that participated were honoured with a symbolic “Gold Record”.

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