From the very beginning the European Genetics Foundation has always been deeply involved in the public understanding of the science, aiming to spread the ‘scientific awareness’ outside the academic fields and reaching the lay people, specifically in the Bologna area.

Informing the citizens to make them aware of the meaning and role of Genetic Medicine is the first fundamental step towards the prevention and cure of hereditary diseases.

Among the most important events organized by European Genetics Foundation together with the Laboratory of Medical Genetics at the Bologna’s Hospital St. Orsola we can recall: