Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Opening of the new UniMORE AI Center, a national and international reference hub for Artificial Intelligence research

With 27 years of consolidated experience in research and innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence, two and a half years of development work and an investment of over €3 million, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia has inaugurated the brand-new UniMORE AI Center within the “Enzo Ferrari” Department of Engineering. The new building is entirely dedicated to knowledge, research and the design of modern Artificial Intelligence, while also integrating training activities and technol...

Unimore uncovers the “secret diary” of prehistoric elephants: fossil teeth reveal new insights into hunting and mobility in the Pleistocene

The Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences (DSCG) at Unimore has led research that sheds new light on the lives of prehistoric elephants and on Neanderthal hunting practices. Published in Science Advances , the study brings together researchers working within the Department, where expertise in geochemistry, stable isotopes and palaeoproteomics is combined in an interdisciplinary approach capable of reconstructing events that took place over 100,000 years ago. At the heart of the inves...

Scholarship “AAE for Women – In Memory of Antonia Terzi and Valeria Giannotta” Awarded

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola hosted the award ceremony for the scholarship “AAE for Women – In Memory of Antonia Terzi and Valeria Giannotta”. The initiative is promoted by ECO Certificazioni S.p.A. in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia and MUNER - Motor Valley University of Emilia-Romagna. Now in its fifth edition (academic year 2025/2026), the award was presented to Isabella Giunta, a s...

Artificial Intelligence: Modena to host the European meeting of the ELLIOT project on multimodal generative models

The ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Unit in Modena will host the meeting of the European project ELLIOT from 11 to 13 March at the “Enzo Ferrari” Department of Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore). The project focuses on the development of Multimodal Generalist Foundation Models (MGFM)—artificial intelligence systems capable of learning general knowledge from vast amounts of heterogeneous data, including video, images, text, signa...

When inclusion becomes a quality parameter: the EQUITRIAL framework developed by Unimore featured in Nature Medicine

Nature Medicine has published the article “Embedding equity in clinical research governance”, which addresses one of the most significant and debated challenges in contemporary clinical research: inclusivity. The study, led by Johanna Maria Catharina Blom, a member of the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, highlights the work of the Modena-based research group engaged in topics such as health data governance, research ethics, ...

MSCA 2025 results published: three Marie Curie fellowships awarded to Unimore with funding from the European Union

The European Commission has published the results of the 2025 call for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships, part of Horizon Europe. These fellowships are among the most prestigious and competitive postdoctoral funding opportunities launched by the Commission. This year, 1,610 postdoctoral researchers were funded, with a total budget of €404.3 million, selected from 17,066 proposals—an overall success rate of 9.6 per cent. The funded projects involve almost 80 nationaliti...

Unimore and Hipert Ltd win the “Best Demo Award” at the final event of Italy’s leading public telecommunications programme

Unimore and its spin-off Hipert Ltd, in collaboration with the University of Bologna, the University of L’Aquila, and the Gran Sasso Science Institute, have won the “Best Demo Award” at the final event of the PNRR RESTART project, Italy’s most significant publicly funded Research & Development programme in the telecommunications sector, backed by €116 million from the PNRR. The Unimore–Hipert team developed a unique demonstration within the MoVeOver – Industrial and Digital Transition Netw...

AlmaLaurea Gender Report Presented at Unimore

A total of 5,695 degrees were awarded in 2024 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (3,302 first-cycle degrees, 1,863 two-year Master’s degrees and 530 single-cycle degrees). Women accounted for 54.5% of all graduates (55.5% in first-cycle programmes, 47.3% in two-year Master’s programmes and 74.0% in single-cycle programmes). Female graduates are less likely to come from culturally advantaged families: 26.1% of women have at least one graduate parent, compared with 34.7% of men. ...

Science and Gender Equality: Global Women’s Breakfast 2026 at Unimore

The Global Women’s Breakfast (GWB) – an international initiative promoted by IUPAC for the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science – returns in 2026 with the theme “Many Voices, One Science”, hosted by the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences at Unimore (https://iupac.org/gwb/2026/gwb2026unimore/). “The Global Women’s Breakfast,” explains Prof. Erika Ferrari, who is organising the event together with Dr Monica Vaccari and Dr Valentina Nicolini, “is not int...

Placement and Equal Opportunities: Two Unimore Initiatives to Strengthen Dialogue with Businesses and the Local Area on 10 and 11 February

As part of its institutional policies, Unimore is organising two opportunities for discussion on 10 and 11 February, dedicated to placement and equal opportunities, with the aim of further strengthening dialogue and collaboration between the University, the productive sector and the local community within an integrated ecosystem approach. The University’s strong results in terms of employability — which consistently place the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia among the top institutions nat...