The Giovanni Agnelli Foundation is an independent non-profit research institute active in the field of human and social sciences. It is an endowed operating foundation established in 1966 by FIAT and IFI to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the founder of FIAT, Senator Giovanni Agnelli.

The mission of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation is furthering and spreading knowledge of the conditions on which Italy’s progress in economic, scientific, social and cultural fields depends.

At present the Foundation’s main research area is about education (school, university, adult training systems and lifelong learning) as an asset for economic and social growth.