Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Unimore opens Academic Year 2024/2025 with Nobel Prize winner Parisi

The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia celebrated the inauguration of the 2024/2025 Academic Year, an event that involved the academic community and representatives of the territory in a period of reflection and planning. The ceremony was opened by the report of the Magnificent Rector, Prof. Carlo Adolfo Porro, and was attended by important guests, including the Nobel Prize winner for Physics Giorgio Parisi, who gave a lectio magistralis. The event also marked the path towards a hist...

A docufilm on Falcone and Borsellino at the Modena Military Academy

The Modena Military Academy will open to the public, on Thursday 21 November at 5.30 p.m., to host the docufilm ‘Falcone and Borsellino, the fire of memory’, directed by Ambrogio Crespi. The project, which pays tribute to the moral and civil legacy of the two great Italian magistrates, commissioned by the Department of Political Science (DEMS) of the University of Palermo, was produced by Teleone and co-produced by Biondani TMG, PSC Proger Smart Communication and Digital Identity. The docufilm...

CIGS Unimore: fifty years at the service of research. On 20 November a conference to celebrate a half-century history

The CIGS - Centro Interdipartimentale Grandi Strumenti of theUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a conference to be held on 20 November in room L1.1 of the Department of Physical, Computer and Mathematical Sciences.  An event designed to retrace the contribution that the Centre has made to scientific research, training and collaboration with public and private bodies. The Centre was established in 1974 with the aim of providing advanced technolog...

The Scientist and the Dinosaur’ conference on Wednesday 20 November in Modena

Dinosaur time in Modena is coming up thanks to the exhibition ‘’Natural Unnatural. Dinosaurs and other creatures’, organised by Fondazione AGO with the participation of Unimore's Museum System, and the conference dedicated to “The Scientist and the Dinosaur”. Fossil discoveries and alleged dinosaur sightings in the 19th century constituted a breaking point between religious faith and scientific discoveries. At the time, some geological theories tried to reconcile the new geological knowledge...

UNIgreen: a delegation from the Haute Ecole of Liège visiting Unimore

A delegation of seventy students and four lecturers from the Biochemistry and Engineering degree programmes of the Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège (HEPL) visited the Enzo Ferrari Department of Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences on 14 November. The visit programme included a welcome at both departments, a presentation of the education activities, a visit to the departmental facilities and some laboratories, with a focus on the research activities of the degree...

Ecosister: paths of territorial transformative innovation for Modena and Reggio Emilia

Unimore is committed, together with the Marco Biagi Foundation, to the realisation of territorial innovation paths in the field of ecological transition, as part of the ECOSISTER project, financed with NRRP funds. The pathways, based on collaboration and co-design between the several actors operating in the territory, started with two challenges: one for Modena and one for Reggio Emilia. The challenge selected for the Modena area is ‘C4-Bio - Development of collaborative solutions to tackle C...

Dialogue on the legal field of behavioural regulation at the Department of Law

The series of seminars ‘Methodologies, social changes and legal professions: new challenges for argumentation’, organised as part of the Fundamentals of normative argumentation programme (Prof. Gianfrancesco Zanetti), continues on Friday 15 November, at 12 noon, with a seminar lecture by Prof. Silvia Vida of Unibo (Ravenna campus), who will discuss behavioural regulation in the legal sphere. The meeting is organised in partnership with the Interdepartmental Centre on Discrimination and Vuln...

Conference on cyber attacks on local companies in Modena

In 2023, cyber attacks against Italian companies increased by 625% compared to 2022. A growing trend also in the current year. These are the numbers released by the National Cybersecurity Agency (NCA) which, at the beginning of July, also published for the first time data on cyber attacks that occurred just in May in our country. The total number of reported incidents is 283. Compared to the previous month, the increase is 148%. These issues will be the focus of the conference ‘ Cyber attacks o...

Opening of the 2024/25 academic year of the Reggio Childhood Studies PhD programme in Sala Tricolore

The Sala Tricolore (Tricolour Hall) in Reggio Emilia was the backdrop this morning to the inauguration ceremony of the 2024/25 academic year of the international and industrial PhD course ‘Reggio Childhood Studies - from Early Childhood to Lifelong Learning’ of the Department of Education and Humanities of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with the Reggio Children Foundation - Loris Malaguzzi Centre ETS as industrial partner of the Phd programme. The leading figures of the event were t...

‘Prison, Rights, Society’: a CRID-promoted round table on the conditions of persons deprived of their liberty at Jurisprudence

The Department of Law will hold the Round Table ‘Prison, Rights, Society’ on Wednesday 13 November, from 3.45 p.m., in Aula S (Via S. Geminiano, 3, Modena). The initiative, which will see the participation of various guests and experts, is part of the activities of the legal training workshop ‘Towards the Legal Clinic’ set up at the CRID - Interdepartmental Research Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerability of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (www.crid.unimore.it). The dialogue wi...