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Fondazione Amadeo Bordiga

The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation gives notice that an election will be held to two Research Scholarships in the topics:

Amadeo Bordiga and the 'Communist Left' in the context of the international socialist and communist movement
The Relevance today of Amadeo Bordiga's theoretic-political thought

Each Scholarship value amounts to € 1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred only), less applicable tax.

Rules:

The Scholarship is open to Italian and foreign researchers.
Applicants are required to submit a research project on the above topic.
The Project in triplicate paper, plus one copy on 3,5" floppy disk or CD, is to be sent by registered mail to the Foundation Chairman, Bruno Maffi, Casella Postale 1321, 20101 Milano, Italy, by November 30, 2003. The postmark date will be effective.
Applicants are required to submit, along with their application, their first name, family name, date and place of birth, address, telephone number (fax and e-mail, if available), educational qualifications, profession, fellowship of any Institute or Research Centre, a summary of their scientific achievements, a list of their papers and titles, if any.
Applicants are required to specify chief information sources for and duration of the research project, which must not exceed five typewritten pages.
The Scholarship amount will be paid in two instalments. Prior to instalment n°2, the Winner will send to the above adress, no later than September 30, 2004, the following:

an analytical list of the sources read and bibliography used
a description of the research method followed in carrying out the project
a full, detailed description of the results obtained, stating that the Foundation will be provided, by March 31, 2005, with a copy of the Research performed wholly or in part through the Scholarship money

The Election Board will consist of the Members of the Foundation Scientific Comittee (Luigi Cortesi, Michele Fatica, Giorgio Galli, Liliana Grilli, Sandro Saggioro). The indisputable decision of the Election Board will be made by January 31, 2005 and directly communicated to the Winner.
The amount will actually be paid in two instalments as follows: instalment n°1 by March 31, 2004; the balance, by October 31, 2004 upon receipt of the afore-mentioned documents in respect of the Research from Winner (see Rules - art. 6). The balance of the Scholarship will not be paid if any of the above documents is missing.
The Election Board reserves the right to fail to grant the Scholarship if none of the research projects submitted is regarded worthy.
Upon indication of the Election Board, the Foundation may publish the final result of the research at the Foundation's expense.

For further information please apply to fab.borsestudio@tiscali.it.

The Foundation Chairman
BRUNO MAFFI
Formia, June 30, 2003

The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation was formed out of the will of Mrs. Antonietta De Meo, Bordiga's widow, and formally registered by the Ministry of Interior's Decree of 5.8.1998. The founding members were people of various political and educational backgrounds and careers. They undertook to fulfill Mrs. De Meo's will, many of them being her friends, and to pursue the common aims set out in the Constitution.

"The Foundation's aim " art. 2 goes "is as follows: to highlight the figure of Amadeo Bordiga, the founder of the Commmunist Party of Italy at the Leghorn Congress (January 1921), from all complex and interconnected humane, cultural and ideological aspects, in the frame of the National and International Proletarian Movement; to underline the man's moral and intellectual strictness in an ever-changing Italian and world situation; the man's inflexibility of his fight for the Marxist doctrine and programme". To this end the Foundation "grants Scholarships and funds and promotes the following: a) historical research work b) publications related to above aim c) the rearrangement, listing and preservation of all existing material to be enriched further with the collection of any documents anywhwre". The Foundation also fosters "the relations with the more important librairies both at home and abroad with a wiew to documenting the presence of Amadeo Bordiga; the publication of his little known or hard-to-find writings, the reprint of his writings compiled at different times and the editing of his complete works. The books and documents will be kept in a library/Archives to be arranged in the very house at Formia, in which the testatrix lived with Amadeo Bordiga". Now this is the Foundation's Registered Office:

The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation's Registered Office
Via Amadeo Bordiga
04023 Formia (LT),ITALY

The following is the list of the Foundation's Board Members (as of June 30, 2003):

Chairman: Bruno Maffi
Vice-Chairman: Edoardo Osser
Secretary: Francesco Carta
Treasurer: Maria R. Battaglia
Trustees: Maria Rosaria Battaglia, Franco Bellone, Francesco Carta, Antonio Di Filippo, Umberto Domitri, Michele Fatica, Liliana Grilli, Annunziata Lepri, Bruno Maffi, Eros Mercuriali, Edoardo Osser, Antonio Sciarretta, Elio Sperduto
Scientific Committee: Luigi Cortesi, Michele Fatica, Giorgio Galli, Liliana Grilli, Sandro Saggioro

For further information please apply to:
Maria Rosaria Battaglia, tel-fax: 0771.770786, e-mail: mr.battaglia@dimensione.com
Liliana Grilli, tel-fax: 02.5454785, e-mail: liliana.grilli@libero.it