Italy

Our initiatives to support vulnerable people and meet their needs.

Our tangible actions in Italy

Eni Foundation, the foundation established by Eni at the end of 2006 to promote and implement social and humanitarian initiatives in Italy and worldwide, supports projects that promote inclusion and help prevent vulnerable situations from worsening in several Italian cities.

Support for the Ri-generazioni project

In partnership with Plenitude Società Benefit, we support the initiative “Ri-generazioni, building opportunities with young people in the urban outskirts”, responding to the urgent educational, social and health needs of young people in the suburbs of Rome, Naples and Milan. The project is being developed together with three organisations deeply embedded in their local areas: Fonte di Ismaele, San Gennaro Community Foundation, and the Varietà cooperative. The initiative helps to combat early school dropout and social isolation, offering integrated and personalised educational and therapeutic programmes, while also supporting the energy upgrading of the buildings housing these initiatives.

Some of the expected results are:

2025-2026: the engagement of roughly 400 teenagers aged 14 to 18, the launch or improvement of three youth integration centres, and the delivery of energy refurbishment measures to foster environmental sustainability.

Support for the Case dell’Amicizia

With Plenitude Società Benefit, we also supported the Case dell’Amicizia, initiative managed by Comunità di Sant’Egidio, from December 2024 to November 2025, helping to meet the essential needs of people and families facing economic, social and housing challenges in Naples, Rome and Turin. We combine emergency assistance with personalised support to help people regain financial stability and secure housing. Here are some of the results we have achieved:

2024: 1,500 meals and solidarity gifts distributed across Rome, Naples and Turin; support provided to 5,100 people in vulnerable conditions in Naples (1,300), Rome (2,600), Turin (1,200).

Case dell’Amicizia: social inclusion and support

Together with Plenitude, we have responded to the concrete needs of the most vulnerable people in Naples, Rome and Turin.

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Other initiatives completed in Italy

The Eni Foundation has supported the population groups most affected by the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic through various editions of the “Non siete soli” project, delivering food parcels directly to homes and organising initiatives aimed at children and adolescents. The first edition in 2020 targeted people over 80 experiencing poverty and social isolation, continuing in 2021 to assist those over 70 struggling due to the crisis related to the pandemic, as well as children and adolescents facing social hardship. In 2022, the project renewed its commitment by supporting vulnerable over-70s not covered by any support networks. “Non siete soli” was carried out in partnership with Fondazione Campagna Amica di Coldiretti, the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP), the Italian Relief Corps of the Order of Malta (CISOM), Fondazione Banco Alimentare, Comunità di Sant’Egidio ACAP Onlus and Caritas Ambrosiana. Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Eni Foundation also launched the “Una Vacanza Una Esperienza Per la pace” initiative to offer holiday stays to Ukrainian children and adolescents and their families already hosted in Italy, coordinated with Civil Protection and in collaboration with the D.O.C. s.c.s. cooperative.