The Foundation is involved in the recovery and enhancement of the former Fossoli Concentration Camp and the Museum of the Deported of Carpi. The Fossoli Foundation was established in January 1996 by the Municipality of Carpi and the Friends of the Museum Monumento al Deportato Association. The objectives of the Foundation, which is not for profit, are the dissemination of historical memory through the conservation, recovery and enhancement of the former Fossoli concentration camp; the promotion of historical-documentary research on the Campo di Fossoli in its various phases of occupation; the planning and activation of initiatives of an informative, didactic and scientific nature, aimed in particular at schools and young people, in the areas of competence of the Foundation, as well as human rights and intercultural education.