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July 2013

A SPACE event for European SMEs

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 31 July, 2013 - 10:12

Within the framework of the European SME Week 2013, APRE on behalf of Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and with the support of COSMOS+, the SPACE National Contact Points network and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), is organizing the “Countdown on Horizon 2020 Space International Information and brokerage event”, which will take place in Rome on the 27th of November 2013.

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The best of Immunology in Milan

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Submitted by redazione on 30 July, 2013 - 09:52

The XV International Congress of Immunology will be held in Milan, Italy, from August 22nd to August 27th, at the MiCo congress facility, in Piazzale Carlo Magno 1, organized by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and the Italian Society for Immunology,
Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA).

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Communication
Vaccine
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ERC ranking: young researchers on the run

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 30/07/2013
Scientific research policy

Our youngsters are keeping up despite the mounting difficulties. Italy, however, has lost any residual appeal. The ERC junior selection for 2013 – i.e. the grants for young researchers from the European Union and associated countries, just assigned by the European Research Council – could have not been much clearer.

Scientific data sharing: Research and open science workshop

di Giovanni Destro Bisol
di Marco Capocasa
di Paolo Anagnostou
Pubblicato il 29/07/2013
Comunicazione
Società

The development of models and tools for greater and more effective data sharing is currently one of the main objectives of researchers. The pooling of data and knowledge will certainly foster progress and help promote more rigorous and and transparent scientific practices. And not only that! Everyone, from individual citizens to institutions, can benefit from the advantages offered by this revolution.

Despite these advantages and potential developments, there are, however, some important yet unanswered questions

Top Italian Scientists plead for animal testing

di redazione
Pubblicato il 25/07/2013

Gruppo 2003 - the Italian Association of the Top 50 Italian Scientists - few days ago launched an appeal from its website (www.scienzainrete.it) opposing the Italian Parliament’s attempt at distorting the European Directive on animal experimentation, which risks cutting Italy out from vital fields of biomedical research if the just approved bans will not be immediately amended.

ERC Starting Grants, italian researchers don't shine

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Submitted by redazione on 25 July, 2013 - 16:40

The European Research Council (ERC) revealed the projects that have won the 2013 edition – the sixth and last one for the FP7 – of the Starting Grants for young researchers. The 287 winners, with a post-doc experience ranging from 2 to 7 years, will be awarded with a total amount of 44 millions of euro (maximum 2 millions for a single researcher) for 5 years of activity. The selected

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Scientific research policy
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How to improve the Italian science diplomacy

di Giacomo Destro
Pubblicato il 25/07/2013

“Science and diplomacy are naturally allied. Energy security, food safety, global warming or pandemics: there is no global challenge that diplomacy can face without the help of the scientific community”. With these words, Emma Bonino, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had opened the Meeting of Scientific Attachés, held in Rome on the 18th and 19th of July.  Sitting near Minister Bonino there was Maria Chiara Carrozza, the Italian Minister of University and Research: together they supervised the signature of a joint operative agreement between the Minister of

ANVUR: the map of Italian research

di Francesco Aiello
Pubblicato il 23/07/2013
Research evaluation

“This is the biggest research evaluation ever carried out at international level. It is an x-ray scan we make available for the Country. Transparency has been the watchword during these two years of work and, from today, the collected data can be accessed by everyone”. Stefano Fantoni – the President of ANVUR (Italian acronym of National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research) – chooses these words opening the conference on the Research Quality

Three lessons from the ANVUR report

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 23/07/2013
Research evaluation

The National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research (the Italian acronym is ANVUR) presented today in Rome the final report on Research Quality Evaluation from 2014 to 2010. This extensive work evaluated the research activity of 95 Universities, 12 Public Research Bodies monitored by the MIUR (the Ministry of Education, University and Research) and 26 so-called “volunteer” bodies. The analysis was carried out for 14 different discipline areas by 14 different groups of experts and involved a total of 450 people, besides