The Foundation is open to receive suggestions from researchers and organisations for projects and activities according to the Foundation’s principles and aims. The Foundation acts in the following areas:

• Training of young researchers who wish to acquire specific knowledge in the development pathology area. The starting clinical discipline or research area is not a circumstance, however particular prominence is given to child psychiatry, development psychology and to other disciplines that would provide scientific methods and infrastructures useful in these fields such as genetics, neurochemistry, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social and cognitive development, molecular biology, epidemiology and linguistics. The training activities include intensive training on specific subjects and the creation of scholarships.
• Support for career advancement for clinical researches who wish to pursue a systematic research on development psychopathology. Including both academics at the outset of their university career who have completed their clinical training and who intend to pursue a career in clinical research, as well as researchers already trained who require support to continue their researches in developmental psychopathology. In these cases the support shall last from one to several years following the standard practice for career advancement.
• Support for research programmes and projects. The Foundation offers support for the start-off research programmes and projects particularly relevant to the topic, also by financing laboratory equipment and materials. This kind of financial aid is specifically connected to research programmes and projects clearly defined and dedicated to development psychopathology. Among the favourite research areas are: short and long-term impact of abuse, neglect and other types of trauma; new and effective methods of prevention and cure; the impact of experience on the development of the brain and behaviour during the first years of life and the research on development psychopathology.