Founded in January 1992 by the Discepolo family and the town council of Vico Equense who have demonstrated significant cultural synergy between the private and public sectors, the Discepolo Foundation is a non-profit making organization aiming to promote the study of and to popularise natural, physical and environmental sciences and to spread the knowledge and enjoyment of natural, historical, artistic, anthropological and architectural resources either present or having existed within the territory of Vico Equense, the Sorrento peninsula and in the Campania Region.

Since 1999 the Foundation has organised the science award Capo d’Orlando, named after a fossiliferous locality in Vico Equense, which is currently divided into five sections.
All the prize winners have, at the time of the prize giving, held a conference about their studies and related activities.

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