Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Prof. Federica Ferraguti won the Italian Science Fund 2023 call for proposals

Prof. Federica Ferraguti of Unimore's Department of Science and Methods for Engineering recently won the FIS2 - Fondo Italiano per la Scienza 2023 (Italian Science Fund 2023) call for proposals, thanks to the TRAMIS - Trustworthy Robotic Assistant for Improved Minimally Invasive Surgery project, obtaining a 1.3 million euro grant that will enable the recruitment of 6 two-year researchers and 4 PhD students. The TRAMIS project aims to develop an autonomous robotic system that can provide supp...

Strong growth in Unimore enrolments in the 2024/25 academic year

In the current academic year, which saw the final closing of enrolment in December 2024, Unimore recorded a marked increase in the number of enrolled students compared to the previous year, with a growth of + 5.4 %. This is a much better result than the average figure for the national academic system, which sees freshmen rising by around 1%. Specifically for Unimore, there are 8,687 matriculated students for the academic year 2024/25: 4,716 women and 3,971 men. This is an important ...

Unimore's Gemma Museum organises a meeting on the resources of the ocean depths

The Gemma University Museum's cycle of conferences ‘Cultural Heritage: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, which is part of the initiatives for the 850th anniversary of Unimore and which kicked off last December with a meeting dedicated to Marco Polo, continues with the second free-entrance event dedicated to the resources of the ocean depths, scheduled for Thursday 23 January, at 5.30 p.m., at the Complesso Sant'Eufemia (Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 - Aula B.04) The seabed is rich in minerals of great ...

Unimore and ITIS Da Vinci of Carpi: Atmosfera Project for monitoring air quality in Carpi

The students of a 5th class specialising in environmental chemistry at ITIS Da Vinci in Carpi, as part of the ‘Atmosfera’ project sponsored by GARC Ambiente, will conduct a pilot monitoring of air quality in Carpi in collaboration of Unimore, ARPAE and the Municipality of Carpi. The project, developed by the Secondary School, aims to enhance students' skills in experimental air quality monitoring, broadening their educational opportunities. It also includes the dissemination of the results to ...

The fourth edition of the “Field School - Costa Rica” kicks off

This year sees the fourth edition of the ‘Field School - Costa Rica’, an initiative involving 13 students from the Bachelor of Science programmes in Biological Sciences and Natural Sciences and the Master of Science programmes in Biosciences and Science Education and Communication. The students, who left on Friday 17 January, will stay for a month in Costa Rica where they will discover some of the varied natural realities of one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world. O...

Unimore organises the event ‘Micro- and Milli-biodiversity in the terrestrial environment’, from 21 to 24 January

From 21 to 24 January, the University Campus in Via Campi, Modena, will host the initiative ‘Micro and Milli-biodiversity in the terrestrial environment’, a journey to discover the microscopic and millimetric life that lives on our planet. The event is organised as part of the outreach and research activities of Spoke 3 of the National Biodiversity Centre (NBFC-NRRP), which includes a nucleus of researchers from the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and...

Team Unimore Racing won the Indy Autonomous Challenge in Las Vegas

Coordinated by Prof. Marko Bertogna of the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, the Unimore Racing Team won the 2025 edition of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), the competition between fully self-driving cars built by universities around the world, held on 9 January at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The team from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia achieved an exceptional victory in the race against a dozen university teams from North America, Europe and Asia, including...

Unimore launches the Erasmus+ INSIGHT European project for a more inclusive university education

Unimore, which today counts among its enrolled students around 350 students with certified disabilities and over a thousand students with specific learning disorders, is the project leader of the Erasmus+ Higher Education project ‘INSIGHT: Inclusive teaching methods in higher education’, an ambitious European project that aims to improve teaching and learning processes by promoting inclusive teaching strategies. The aim of the project is to guarantee the right to study and equal educational opp...

Prof. Giulio Garuti reconfirmed as vice-president of the Association of Criminal Trial Scholars

Prestigious confirmation for Prof. Giulio Garuti, Professor of Criminal Procedure Law at the Unimore Department of Law, who, during the Annual Conference of the Association of Criminal Trial Law Scholars 'G.D. Pisapia' was re-elected to the national board and reconfirmed as vice-president. From 12 to 14 December 2024, the Association's annual conference was held at the University of Milan, entitled ‘ Where criminal justice is going ', which focused on topics of great relevance, such as the...

KICS from HHV-8: a new diagnostic and therapeutic protocol to save organ transplants

It has just been published in American Journal of Transplantation , the world's leading transplantology journal, a study conducted over the last 12 years at ISMETT with the close collaboration of the ISMETT and RIMED research laboratories and the clinical and laboratory haematology departments of Unimore and the University Hospital of Modena, which has made it possible to define a new cytokine syndrome called KICS (Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus Inflammatory Cytokine Syndrome) and caused by ...