Istituto Luigi Sturzo - Luigi Sturzo Institute 
L’Istituto Luigi Sturzo è un ente morale fondato nel 1951 e intitolato a Luigi Sturzo, fondatore nel 1919 del Partito Popolare Italiano e tra gli artefici del primo movimento democratico cristiano.
Svolge attività di ricerca e di formazione nel campo delle scienze storiche, sociologiche, politiche ed economiche. Ha sede Palazzo Baldassini, edificio costruito tra il 1515 e il 1518 ad opera dell’architetto Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane e decorato internamente con affreschi realizzati da artisti della Scuola di Raffaello.
L’Istituto dispone di un vasto patrimonio documentario, conservato nell’Archivio storico -nato dal nucleo originario del Fondo Luigi Sturzo e specializzato nella valorizzazione delle fonti per la storia del movimento cattolico - e nella Biblioteca, specializzata nelle scienze sociali e nella storia moderna e contemporanea.
La costante attività di ricerca dell’Istituto, estesa in campo storico, sociologico, politico, giuridico ed economico, è integrata dai seminari e convegni che l’Istituto organizza per presentare i risultati delle ricerche condotte e i volumi di rilevante interesse nelle aree disciplinari di competenza.
L’Area Formazione dell’Istituto ha consolidato nel tempo la propria attività progettuale rivolgendo particolare attenzione a quanto accade in Europa nel campo della formazione post-universitaria e professionale.
La diffusione e valorizzazione dei risultati dell’attività scientifica avviene attraverso varie pubblicazioni, tra cui la rivista Sociologia, quadrimestrale di scienze storiche e sociali.
L’Istituto sviluppa molte delle sue attività in collaborazione con istituzioni nazionali e internazionali.
Luigi Sturzo Institute
The Luigi Sturzo Institute, established in 1951, is a cultural foundation based in Rome. The Institute is located in Palazzo Baldassini, edifice built by the architect Antonio da Sangallo between 1515 and 1518. Fresco paintings, by Raffaello’s school artists, cover the ceilings and walls of the inside rooms. The Institute is committed to the preservation and valorisation of cultural heritage, it carries out training activities and researches in historical, sociological, political and economical fields. The Institute collaborates with national and international institutions in development activities.
The Research and Studies Area designs projects in social science topics. The investigation method is related to the social structures and political institutions knowledge. The study of social sciences is relevant to the understanding of Italy’s political, social and economic situation. The main research guidelines concern Italian history between XIX and XX century ( mostly oriented to the Italian monarchy, post-unification and republican age, to the history of the Catholic Church, to the history of national and European public institutions, to globalisation processes, to cultural, social and economic changes). mail to ricerca@sturzo.it
The Training Area develops integrated training systems distinguished by a territorial and sectorial character. The cultural and heritage field is the primary area of interest (systems of life long learning for employees of cultural organizations and courses to promote young people’s employability). The Training Area carries out training activities oriented at improving the cultural heritage accessibility and fruition; it designs research projects detecting new professional profile skills needed in the labour market; it manages projects concerning the definition of credits calculating systems and outlines training programmes (working out all the process phases, from the analysis of users needs to the outcome dissemination. mail to formazione@sturzo.it
The Historical Archive Area holds over 4550 envelopes of documents, which have been recognised by the State to be of considerable historical interest. It specialises in retrieval and awareness-raising initiatives, studies and publications, concerning sources for the history of the Catholic movement carried out by researchers and intellectuals. The Archive holds writings and documents that are indispensable to better appreciate the history of Italy and of the Catholic movements from the crisis of the Liberal State up to the coming of Fascism. Moreover it holds documents related to the lives of anti-fascist exiles, the establishment of the Republic and the promulgation of the Constitutional Charter. More specifically, it holds writings and papers by Luigi Sturzo, Giovanni Gronchi, Filippo Meda, Flaminio Piccoli, Mario Scelba, Piero Malvestiti, Giuseppe Spataro, Maria Eletta Martini, Tina Anselmi, Giulio Andreotti and, furthermore the Democrazia cristiana records. In addition the Historical Archive holds iconographic, photographic and audio-visual materials representing an innovative methodology for historical research: one hundred thousand pictures coming from Il Popolo, the Democrazia cristiana’s newspaper, published from 1943 to 2004; one thousand and five hundred propaganda posters and three hundred propaganda films produced by Democrazia cristiana’s cinema office, from 1944 to 1975. mail to archivio@sturzo.it
The Library is specialized in social sciences, modern and contemporary history focusing mainly on political history and sociological philosophy, on the political parties history and on local history and too. It is continuously updated with the most recent Italian and foreign publications and holds about 100,000 volumes. The Journals section includes about 600 journals focused on sociological matters, although historical and political journals are also present. The Library of the Luigi Sturzo institute has been a member of the National Librarian Service since 1990. Lately the Library published the Luigi Sturzo’s Opera Omnia on web. mail to biblioteca@sturzo.it
The Digital Laboratory focuses its activity on innovative digital technologies applied on bibliographic and archival research. The laboratory’s activities started on 2005 and developed new methods of digital cataloguing to preserve iconographic, photographic and audio-visual materials. The records, uploaded on digital databases, are now accessible on-line. A recent acquisition of audiovisual and photograph materials encouraged training programmes to enhance the competences in the management of non-traditional resources extensively used, at present, in the historical, sociological, political and cultural research. Recently the Laboratory started an editorial activity aiming at promoting the Institute movies and audio-visual heritage. mail to laboratorio@sturzo.it
