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 this new and important academic year.
In this context, the university acts as the protagonist of a constant dialogue with the institutions and with the economic and social context, and the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience - NPRR has represented and continues to represent for the university an extraordinary opportunity to consolidate the research mission and strengthen its impact with effects that give concreteness to the ‘third mission’, the social function of the university.
The so-called ‘cascade calls’ specifically, issued to foster dialogue between universities, research centres and public bodies, have the aim of allocating strategic resources to subjects who can translate scientific research into applied innovation, to the benefit of the entire community.
In this issue of FocusUnimore, therefore, extensive space is devoted to the research projects involved in this aspect: the SILENS Project for innovation in pleasure boating, which seems to be excluded from the digital revolution, coordinated by Prof. Federico Tramarin of the DIEF - Enzo Ferrari Department of Engineering; the ALERT project proposing effective solutions for the protection of vulnerable road users, whose coordinator is Prof. Maria Luisa Merani, again of the DIEF; the SMILE-SQUIP project for quantum computing and superconductors, supervised by Prof. Marco Affronte of DISMI; the REVISION project for monitoring infrastructures with innovative technologies managed by Prof. Loris Vincenzi of DIEF; the FITS project for mapping the electrical activity of the brain to generate mathematical models of nerve circuits, whose coordinator is Prof. Jonathan Mapelli, of the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences; the Safely project for the implementation of tools and actions to promote the digital awareness of the new generations, coordinated by Prof. Thomas Casadei of the Department of Law and Director of the CRID - Interdepartmental Research Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerability; the project ‘Severe infections and sepsis: clinical NEtwork for the identification of clinical and diagnostic markers, immunological monitoring and “targeted and personalised” therapies for adults, children and patients admitted to intensive care units’, with Prof. Massimo Girardis of the Department of Surgery, Medicine, Dentistry and Morphological Sciences related to Transplant, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine.
The analysis continues with the EMPEROR project for the realisation of innovative materials for the quantum technologies of the future coordinated by Prof. Marco Gibertini of the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics; the ‘Safety and Health Initiative for Efficient in Laboratory Archive Detection - SHIELD’ project coordinated by Prof. Albino Eccher of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences; the ‘CRV2V: Cyber Risks of Vehicle to Vehicle communications’ project, coordinated by Prof. Mirco Marchetti of DIEF.
Among the winning projects of the 2024 calls for proposals is the READ-ME project for the optimisation of automatic reading processes of sources for the history of contemporary Italy, implemented by the Interdepartmental Research Centre on Digital Humanities and supervised by Prof. Matteo Al Kalak; the R2CA project for the reduction of the risk of the collapse of embankments, coordinated by Prof. Stefano Orlandini of DIEF.
A large section of the issue is also dedicated to the numerous initiatives promoted by the University to mark 25 November, the International Day Against Violence to Women.
In this context, there is a new reality within the Unimore Library System, Gender*MoRe Bookclub, which envisages the creation of a digital library providing specialised literature dedicated to gender bias in scientific communication and technological innovation, as well as the launch of quantitative and qualitative analyses on the scientific production of Unimore authors from a gender perspective.
The issue closes with an article dedicated to the Gender Equality Certification for the BPER Group issued by Unimore's start-up IDEM, born in 2020 from the collaboration between lecturers of the Marco Biagi Department of Economics, researchers of the Marco Biagi Foundation, Unimore's Third Mission support body, and Job Pricing, and an article on the collaboration between the University and ForModena.
Categorie: International - english, Notizie_eng
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