Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

LeTSGEPs closing conference

The Marco Biagi Department of Economics and the Marco Biagi Foundation participated in the Final Conference of the H2020 project "Leading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans in research performing organisations - LeTSGEPs", funded by the European Union, under the scientific responsibility of Prof. Tindara Addabbo.   In its four years of existence, the LeTSGEPs project had the main objective of guiding six universities and research centres: CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), France; Institut ...

8.6 million MUR co-financing to Unimore for the new student residences of Bonacorsa and San Barnaba

Over 8 million euros have been allocated by MUR for the construction of two new student residences in the heart of Modena's historic city centre, as part of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia's project to develop student residences. This impressive investment is part of the 5th call provided for by Law 338/2000 on university housing of the Ministry of University and Research. The two new student residences, located in via Bonacorsa and via San Barnaba, will add a total of 106 new bed...

Open access obligations in major funding calls at International, European and Italian level

Within the great cultural movement that goes by the name of Open Science, the theme of Open Access (OA) plays a prominent role. In fact, the scientific community has highlighted the need to guarantee free and open online access to scientific information, with a view to equity, progress and dissemination of knowledge. The Plan S initiative, launched in 2018 by cOAlition S, an informal, international consortium of entities funding or conducting research, stipulates that all scientific publication...

Individual labour rights as human rights”: dialogue with Professor Elena Sychenko, Visiting Professor at the Law Department

Professor Elena Sychenko is a new Visiting Professor at the Law Department who will conduct teaching activities and important research projects over the next three months. She will hold several seminars dedicated to the protection of workers’ rights, in particular she will teach International Labour Law and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Compliance at Unimore. Graduated cum laude in Law in 2004 at the University of St. Petersburg, after a PhD in Labour Law at the University of Catan...

25 years of the agri-food university course in Reggio Emilia

Unimore is preparing to celebrate 25 years of the agri-food journey at its Reggio Emilia headquarters. The agronomic reality was born as a faculty of Agriculture in 1998 and then returned, following the Gelmini reform, to the Department of Life Sciences. The educational offer of the agri-food path today includes a three-year degree course in agricultural and food sciences and technologies, two master's degree courses in food control and safety and in integrated sustainability of agricultural sy...

Two Unimore teams in the world's top ten of 'AVIS Engine' magazine

The trade magazine 'AVIS Engine' - Autonomous Vehicles Intelligent simulation software - has included in its special issue 'The Best in the Engineering World' two autonomous driving vehicle teams from Unimore, which are considered among the world's top 10. These are the TII Unimore team (formerly TII Euroracing), managed by the Unimore Department of Physical, Computer and Mathematical Sciences 'FIM' and the spinoff Hipert srl, which competes in the prestigious international Indy Autonomous ...

ProjectRED team in the world's top 10 student rovers

Students from Unimore's ProjectRED team win a prominent position in the European Rover Challenge in Poland: a result that strengthens Italy's reputation in the international robotics, aerospace engineering and mechatronics scene. The ProjectRED team made up of students mostly from the Department of Science and Methods for Engineering (DISMI) of Unimore has regained third place in the European Rover Challenge (ERC) Space And Robotics Event, Remote category, after the excellent result of 202...

Prof. Maria Donata Panforti receives the Exceptional Service Award 2023 from the International Society of Family Law

On the occasion of the 18th (Golden Jubilee) World Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL), held from 12 to 15 July 2023 in Antwerp, Prof. Maria Donata Panforti, Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Department of Education and Human Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, received the Exceptional Service Award 2023. The award, conferred by the Society's president, Masha Antokolskaia, is an honour bestowed on those who have done particularly outsta...

International guidelines for Phelan-McDermid syndrome: in the team of scholars the only Italian is Prof. Antonio Persico

Prof. Antonio Persico of the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Science at Unimore is the only Italian expert to have contributed to the drafting of the international guidelines for the clinical management of patients with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, recently published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. Phelan-McDermid syndrome is a rare disease with a genetic basis, due to deletion of chromosome 22q13, mutations in the SHANK3 gene, or rearrangements of chromosome 22 wit...

Internationalisation: agreement and covenant of action between the Law Departments of Unimore and the University of Seville

The Law Department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Unimore signs an important inter-university agreement with the “twin” Department of the University of Seville. The agreement provides for synergetic collaboration in the development of research and training projects, the organisation of academic events, the publication of scientific material and an academic staff exchange policy, with a special focus on young male and female researchers. As part of the strategic vision of i...