Fundação São Paulo

About Fundação São Paulo

The FUNDAÇÃO SÃO PAULO, maintaining entity of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and the Assunção University Center, is a non-profit legal entity, recognized as being of public and philanthropic utility, guided by the principles of the Catholic faith. Its objective is to promote education at all levels and modalities, as well as to stimulate investigation, scientific research, and community outreach through its maintained institutions, units incorporated into them, and other organizations of a cultural, social, philanthropic, educational, and research nature. The FUNDASP also assumes the mission of defending and preserving historical heritage, as well as stimulating and promoting the production and dissemination of cultural and artistic manifestations and assets that form knowledge, culture, and memory, encouraging freedom of expression, the promotion of citizenship, and the valorization of Brazilian identity. Since 1945 and through the dissemination of education, the Foundation carries out welfare actions aimed at integration into the job market and social inclusion, in addition to promoting other activities that, in the judgment of the Superior Council, are of interest in achieving its statutory objectives.