The Barbara and Roberto Conza Foundation was established in 2015. Its financial basis is the assets that the Ticino-born lawyer Roberto Conza left to his wife Barbara Conza on his death in 2013. The purpose of the foundation is made up of the personal interests of Roberto Conza, who was enthusiastic about art and science, and the concerns of Barbara Conza, who dedicated her professional life to promoting the development of children, teenagers and young adults. The unifying focus of the interests of Roberto and Barbara Conza is the support of learning processes of young people to develop their personality and to acquire competences under special learning conditions, on the one hand in the sense of difficult learning and on the other hand in the sense of highly developed artistic or scientific learning abilities. Throughout their lives, Roberto and Barbara Conza maintained a radius of vision that extended beyond the borders of Switzerland. For a few years they lived in Italy, but for the greater part of their common life they lived in Switzerland. Barbara Conza grew up in Wilderswil in the canton of Bern. Barbara Conza died there in 2020. The Barbara and Roberto Conza Foundation is recognized by the tax authorities as a non-profit organization and is tax-exempt.
The Barbara and Roberto Conza Foundation sees itself both as a donor foundation and as an operational foundation.
As an operative foundation, the Barbara and Roberto Conza Foundation either initiates its own projects and realizes them itself. These are primarily projects in the field of "innovative learning". At present, the foundation is concentrating operationally on the lead project "Lernwerkstatt - Encouraging Science, Inspiring Art".