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Unimore Brings Italy to the Podium at the International Flux Congress in Dublin

Dr Giuditta Smith, researcher at Unimore in the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, was awarded the Travel Award at the international scientific conference Flux in Dublin – the only prize granted to an Italian university throughout the entire conference. Dr Smith presented a paper on reading screening in Italian primary schools, entitled “Rapid Online Assessment of Reading: Validation of an Italian Reading Screening Tool.” The project, funded by the 2022 PRIN (Projects o...

Unimore and AOU Modena Dedicate a Day to Childhood Cancer: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Care Networks at the Heart of the September 20 Conference

On Saturday, September 20, the Aula Magna of the Medical Services Center at the Modena Polyclinic will host the conference “Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Cancer: UNIMORE-AOU Modena Serving the Community and Scientific Research.” The event will gather clinicians, researchers, and representatives from the volunteer sector to review epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and care networks in pediatric oncology, with a particular—but not exclusive—focus on the Modena and Reggio Emilia context...

Unimore’s MoRe Modena Racing Team Triumphs at Formula SAE Italy for the Second Consecutive Year

The MoRe Modena Racing team from Unimore ended the 2025 season with an important victory at Formula SAE Italy, held at the Riccardo Paletti Circuit in Varano de’ Melegari, in the Internal Combustion Vehicle class. This triumph – their second consecutive win after last season’s success – not only crowned the team as the undisputed champions of the Italian competition but also confirmed the consistently high level they demonstrated throughout the season. Unimore’s MMR team, with its biofuel ...

IWES 2025: The Tenth Edition of the Italian Workshop on Embedded Systems Comes to Modena

The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will host the tenth edition of the Italian Workshop on Embedded Systems (IWES) on 18–19 September. IWES has become a national benchmark for dialogue between academia and industry in the field of embedded systems. This year’s programme features keynote speeches by international experts – including Marco Demi (Resiltech) and Luca Benini (University of Bologna, ETH Zurich) – along with contributions from leading companies such as Bylogix, Accelerat, Mi...

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay in Modena for Unimore’s 850th Anniversary

The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will host the ceremony on Friday 12 September 2025 at 11 a.m. at the Teatro della Fondazione Collegio San Carlo. The occasion will pay tribute to Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, for whom the honorary degree in Law has been requested. As Rector Professor Carlo Adolfo Porro emphasises, this is the most significant international moment of the anniversary celebrations. A graduate of the École Nationale d’Administration, Audrey Azoulay studi...

Unimore launches pilot project “Hearing Loop” for full accessibility of university spaces

The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia has launched a pilot project to improve accessibility in classrooms and service desks across its Modena and Reggio Emilia campuses, through the installation of “Hearing Loop” systems. These induction loop technologies allow people with hearing impairments to receive clear and direct audio signals from microphones and sound systems. The project has been rolled out across six university buildings, including main lecture halls and student services desks....

European Rover Challenge: Excellent Result for Unimore’s Project RED Team

Unimore’s Project RED team, composed mainly of students from the Department of Sciences and Method for Engineering (DISMI), took part in the European Rover Challenge (ERC) Space and Robotics Event, an international competition focused on robotics and aerospace, achieving 14th place in the main on-site challenge. The prestigious event, held in Kraków, Poland, brings together university student teams from across the globe each year to compete with their mobile rover prototypes designed for ex...

Unimore joins international team that uncovers link between climate change and tsunami risk

Over 250 million people—around 5% of the global population—live along the coasts of the South China Sea. Understanding the geological factors that influence tsunami risk in this region is therefore crucial for the protection of coastal populations and infrastructure, both on land and underwater. Tsunamis are primarily triggered by earthquakes and submarine landslides occurring along continental margins. Identifying the geological factors that affect their frequency and distribution is essen...

The SoilMATs International School comes to Modena

The SoilMATs – Soil Meiofauna Advanced Taxonomy school project, launched by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia under the European Horizon Europe programme TETTRIs – Transforming European Taxonomy through Training, Research and Innovations, is continuing with the aim of training a new generation of specialists in the identification of soil-dwelling animals. The initiative seeks to address the shortage of expertise in the taxonomy of animal groups that are little studied but essential ...

Unimore discovers a new mechanism underlying FSHD muscular dystrophy

The prestigious international journal Nucleic Acids Research has published an innovative and groundbreaking study by the MIOGEN laboratory, led by Professor Rossella Tupler from the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neurosciences at Unimore. The study proposes a paradigm shift in the research model for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), one of the most common genetic disorders affecting the muscles and causing their progressive weakening. The research, led by Dr Valentina ...