The Centenary Italian Studies Fund aims to enrich the learning and research environment for Italian Studies at the University of Cambridge through donations from alumni or other friends of the Cambridge Italian Department within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

It enables the Department to promote the study of Italy, the Italian language and Italian culture in Cambridge and beyond, to build contacts with schools, to offer travel bursaries and research funds to students, to forge links with Italian universities and cultural institutions, to run Summer Schools and to invite speakers to Cambridge.