Brief profile

TreeLLLe for a society of lifelong learning is a legally constituted non profit association whose aim is to improve quality in education (learning, teaching, initial and on-the-job training) in all its various sectors and cycles. Through research, analysis, planning and publications the Association offers a service to the general public, social partners, education boards and decision-making authorities, both at national and local levels. Moreover, TREELLLE undertakes the important task of monitoring education systems and innovation in other countries, relying also on international experts.

More specifically, TREELLE aims to serve as "bridge" between the ever-widening gap in our country which separates research, general public and decision-makers - a gap which hinders progress in modernising and improving our education system. The Association is strictly non-political and non-governmental: the uniqueness and ambition of the project lie in harnessing the contribution of well respected personalities and experts who best represent our country's different traditions and cultural identities. Today these traditions and identities need to be brought face-to-face in dialogue within an environment free from competitiveness and political tensions. The Founding Members are guarantors of this commitment.

The promoter and president of the Association is Attilio Oliva. 
The Forum - with its Steering Committee - is composed of well respected personalities and experts with varied and complementary expertise. The Association will also call upon eminent advisors (politicians, media editors and representatives from various national and international bodies and institutions) who, however, cannot be held responsible for the thesis and proposals presented by TreeLLLe.

Strategic Issues

Each year the Association will focus on one or two strategic and wide-ranging themes (Quaderni). Data and information on single issues are presented, proposals are put forward, "open questions" are highlighted, with particular attention to the most successful and innovative international experiences.

The Association's activities are designed around four stages for each strategic theme

1. the Steering Committee of the Forum and the Project Groups define the proposals and the first draft of a Quaderno;
2. the Forum's personalities and eminent advisors give their opinions on the first draft of the Quaderno. The final draft will reach the widest consensus in order to give the thesis maximum authoritativeness and the capacity to influence the general public, education boards and decision-making authorities;
3. the proposals of the Quaderni are circulated with the aim of informing and involving decision-makers, education authorities and media via public presentations of the Quaderni, both in national and local events. Particular care is given to attract the attention of media (the editors of some of the main daily papers participate in the forum as Advisors);
4. transparent lobbying through the circulation of data, information and proposals to decision-makers - both at national and local levels -, parliamentarians, political parties, education boards in order to assure that TreeLLLe proposals influence the Government action and are transformed in actual experiments.

The Association will assess the efficacy of its activity by surveying the content of the laws and the measures adopted by decision makers; the number and quality of the experiments undertaken by educational institutions; the acknowledgements of the Association's activity by the scientific, political and sectorial communities; the extent of media attention focussed on the issues.

Issues of immediate interest

The Association will also deal with issues of immediate interest, organising international seminars, researches (sometimes in collaboration with other agencies), and discussions among the personalities of the Forum.

Circulation of books

Each research project is published in a specific series ("Quaderni", "Seminari", "Ricerche", "Questioni aperte", etc.) freely distributed ( 5,000 to 20,000 copies) on the basis of "targeted" mailing lists (or upon request, within the limits of availability). The documents are also available on the Association website (www.treellle.org).

Financing bodies

The activity of the Association is financially supported by some prestigious Italian Foundations set up by leading banks that, in keeping with their institutional purposes, decide to support either single projects or the Association's activity. Since its foundation, the Association has received contributions from the following Foundations: Compagnia di San Paolo di Torino, Pietro Manodori Cassa di Risparmio di Reggio Emilia, Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia.

Management Organs

President

Attilio Oliva

Steering Committee of the Forum

Dario Antiseri, Carlo Callieri, Carlo Dell'Aringa, Tullio De Mauro, Giuseppe De Rita, Domenico Fisichella, Attilio Oliva, Angelo Panebianco, Clotilde Pontecorvo.

Forum of personalities and experts

Luigi Abete, Guido Alpa, Dario Antiseri, Federico Butera, Carlo Callieri, Aldo Casali, Lorenzo Caselli, Elio Catania, Alessandro Cavalli, Innocenzo Cipolletta, Carlo Dell'Aringa, Tullio De Mauro, Giuseppe De Rita, Umberto Eco, Luciano Guerzoni, Mario Lodi, Roberto Maragliano, Angelo Panebianco, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Sergio Romano, Domenico Siniscalco, Giuseppe Varchetta, Umberto Veronesi.

Eminent Advisors

Tommaso Agasisti, Giulio Anselmi, Ernesto Auci, Guido Barilla, Enzo Carra, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Antonio Di Rosa, Giuliano Ferrara, Domenico Fisichella, Silvio Fortuna, Franco Frattini, Stefania Fuscagni, Lia Ghisani, Lucio Guasti, Ezio Mauro, Mario Mauro, Dario Missaglia, Luciano Modica, Gina Nieri, Andrea Ranieri, Giorgio Rembado, Gian Felice Rocca, Carlo Rossella, Fabio Roversi Monaco, Marcello Sorgi, Piero Tosi, Giovanni Trainito, Giuseppe Valditara, Benedetto Vertecchi, Vincenzo Zani.

Board of Founding Members

Fedele Confalonieri, Gian Carlo Lombardi, Luigi Maramotti, Pietro Marzotto, Attilio Oliva, Marco Tronchetti Provera. Secretary of the Board: Guido Alpa.

Board of auditors

Giuseppe Lombardo (president), Vittorio Afferni, Michele Dassio.