When: Friday, April 17, 2015 — 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Room 4-163, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
On Friday, April 18, MIT's Italian student organization MITaly will hold the event: "Smart Specialization and the Future of Italian Research".

The agenda is the following:
1:00-200PM: Dr Francesco Grillo, Managing director of the European think-thank Vision and Advisor of the European Commission and of the Minister of Education, will talk about "smart specialization" as a strategy for growth.
2:00-2:30PM: Prof. Stefania Giannini, Italian Secretary of Research, Universities, and Education, will join us in video-conference to talk more specifically about the initiatives of the government.

Fonte: Bostoniano