Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Student Margherita Laganà selected for the role of EU Career Student Ambassador

In 2024, Margherita Laganà, a student enrolled in the Master's degree programme LACOM - Languages for Communication in International Enterprises and Organisations at the Department of Studies on Language and Culture, was selected to take on the role of "EU Career Student Ambassador". From October 4th to 6th, during a stay in Brussels organised by EPSO, the recruitment office for European institutions, she had the opportunity to attend a training session that provided all the necessary inform...

River deltas in danger: a study in Nature Sustainability warns of the risk of extinction for coastal systems

The prestigious journal Nature Sustainability recently published the study by an international group of experts on coastal environments, including two Italian professors from Unimore (Prof. Vittorio Maselli) and the University of Bologna (Prof. Alessandro Amorosi), which traces the fundamental role that river deltas have played in the socio-economic development of the last 7,000 years and warns of the tragic consequences that the climate crisis could have on the future evolution of these frag...

Unimore's Morejobs Career Day is back on 5 December at ModenaFiere

Unimore's Morejobs Career Day will be held again at ModenaFiere on Thursday 5 December from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is the traditional event, now in its ninth edition, in which participating companies will meet students and graduates to offer internship and work placement opportunities. Among the more than 100 participating companies are national and international giants of the calibre of: Adecco, Amplifon, Arag, AVL, Banca Mediolanum, Bper, Cellular Line, Coop Allenaza 3.0, Decathlon, Fl...

Inauguration of the 2024/2025 Unimore academic year at the Modena Prison

On the basis of the agreement between Unimore, the Sant'Anna Prison and ER.GO - Azienda regionale per il Diritto agli Studi Superiori dell'Emilia Romagna (Regional Agency for the Right to Higher Studies in Emilia Romagna), stipulated in 2022, which allows inmates in the facility to access Unimore's degree programmes, a special inauguration ceremony for the 2024/2025 academic year was held this morning, for the first time, at the Modena Prison. The current 9 detained students are enrolled in ...

At the Law Department for the series "Methodologies, Social Changes, and Legal Professions" - A discussion on Argumentation and the Cognitive Turn

The seminar series "Methodologies, Social Changes, and Legal Professions: New Challenges for Argumentation" reaches its sixth and final session: on Friday 29th November, Professor Giovanni Bombelli from the Cattolica University of Milan will deliver a lecture on the complex relationship between normative argumentation and the so-called "cognitive turn," between legal positivism and legal cognitivism. The event, which will begin at 12.00, is organised as part of the course Foundations of Nor...

The former Sant'Eufemia barracks in Modena becomes a new university residence

The university student residence created through the redevelopment of the former Carabinieri barracks in Sant'Eufemia in Modena is ready. The complex, consisting of 18 housing units, won the NRRP call for bids promoted by the Ministry of University and Research and can host up to 55 university students, researchers and PhD students from outside the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The restoration of the Sant'Eufemia Barracks is the outcome of a system operation - for a total investme...

Unimore organises public conference ‘The world's oldest child’

As part of the initiatives organised to celebrate Unimore's 850th anniversary, on Thursday 28 November at 5.30 p.m., the Aula magna of the Palazzo del Rettorato (via Università 4, Modena) will host the public lecture ‘The World's Oldest Child’, a multi-voice dialogue to talk about human evolution starting from an important palaeoanthropological rest, exactly 100 years after its discovery: the ‘Taung Child’. The meeting, organised by the Unimore Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences ...

‘Metaphor, emotion, vision": two-day conference on metaphor and aesthetic experience in Reggio Emilia

The conference ‘Metaphor, Emotion, Vision’, organised by Unimore and the University of Milan, will be held on 27 November at Città Studi Milan (2.30-6 p.m.) and on the days of 28 and 29 November in Reggio Emilia (Palazzo Baroni). The conference will focus on metaphor as a device of mediation and interaction between language, visual experience and emotional experience. In contemporary Studies, the aesthetic aspect of metaphor has found ample space in reflections on the embodied character of ...

Online the new issue of FocusUnimore

The November issue of FocusUnimore, the webmagazine of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, opens with aneditorial by the Rector Prof. Carlo Adolfo Porro marking the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the University. Over the centuries, Unimore has progressed along a programme that has consolidated the role of knowledge and growth through the epochal changes in society, science and technology. The Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi, a physicist of undisputed world renown, opened t...

At the Department of Law a discussion on legal argumentation and methodologies

The lecture is organised, in collaboration with the Interdepartmental Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerability - CRID Unimore, as part of the Fundamentals of Regulatory Argumentation programme. The seminar is scheduled for Friday 22 November, at 12 noon, and will be based on Prof. Velluzzi's recent volume, Metodologia e diritto civile. Una prospettiva filosofica (Carocci, 2023). ‘This fifth appointment ,’ says Prof. Zanetti, ‘ will be a valuable opportunity for students of the Fundamentals...