Observing these changes might determine a measure of biological age slightly different from anagraphic age, thus providing information about the risk of disease development. Ageing may be explained as a set of ageing clocks, identifying a subset of modifications for molecules which could be considered age evolution predictors. In the next 2 months the International Campus “Salvatore Venuta” will be completed with a full optional residence for students, lectures and researchers, a sport equipped structure, a library, open spaces and gardens for social activities.Becoming older or ageing represents the accumulation of phenotype changes in humans over time ( Booth and Brunet 2016). The common aim is to have a focal point for Innovation and Research in all sectors giving a strong impulse also to the International environment of learning and growing. Affords from the Institutional point of view, together with the University and the Foundation are going on strong of a strategic partnership among several actors. The Foundation head quarter is based inside the University Centre of excellence (so called Germaneto) where a new International Campus is going to be completed and ready to host international guests. In Italy these topics are still an unknown context of work to develop together with international partners. The Foundation aims at becoming also a point of contact and service provider for adult and young people in Europe offering them information and training on European Studies and European Citizenship Education. The Southern territory of Calabria region offers beautiful landscapes and holidays places but also a difficult panorama of diseases, disadvantaged situations and lack of opportunities. The Foundation is also opening the dialogue with the social and economical parts of our society aiming at creating a bridge between the educational sector and the labour market. Thanks to a good coordination and an assured level of autonomy, the Foundation could implement internal strategies and indipendent projects useful for the involvement of researchers, students and lectures in several activities, trainings, events assuring an interactive and dynamic dialogue between the University and other actors of the educational and research field. The Foundation places side by side to the University but, more in general, wants to be a point of reference in the Educational field for the local context, trying to foster quality and improvement of research in order to become the practical connection among several institutions from the public and the private sector. Through its “youth” structure, the UMGF aims at recollecting target needs and raise awareness on the great, but under-estimated cultural, social and scientific heritage at local level towards a process of innovation and development. Its mission is furthermore to be the mirror between the University and the territory which is, in specific the city of Catanzaro, but in a wider perspective the Calabria region, the Italian Nation in the European context and in the world. The Foundation is officially the private-public institution which contributes to the development of the University of Catanzaro and of its the socio-economical-cultural contest. 59 comma 3 legge, n.388) which gave the opportunity to create private entities able to provide teachers, students and researchers services and support Universities in terms of teaching improvement, research, innovation and internationalization. The “Magna Graecia” Foundation (UMG Foundation, acronym UMGF) was born in January 2011 inside the “Magna Graecia” University of Catanzaro ( to a national law (art.
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