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The Italian Ministry of Culture has recently launched the first version of “Musei Italiani,” an application that provides users with information about Italy’s national museums and allows for the digital purchase of tickets. The app offers details on 406 Italian museums and archaeological parks, in Italian and in English, and geolocates cultural sit...

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The first avatar capable of responding to emergency requests that come to the 112 emergency telephone number using Italian Sign Language (Lis) has arrived: the goal is to enable even deaf people to be more autonomous and to access basic services. This 'virtual interpreter' was developed by the Siena-based company QuestIt. Users, after calling the p...

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The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has launched the “Alumni Farnesina” portal in collaboration with the Uni-Italia Association. This portal is dedicated to all those who have received a scholarship offered by the Italian Government during their academic career, such as the MAECI scholarships or Invest Your Talent....

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The Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) annually awards the Young Investigator Awards in various disciplines to outstanding, early-career Italian researchers working in the United States or Canada, in recognition of their significant and innovative contributions to their field of research. The Embassy of Italy in Wash...

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The invention of radar, an acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging, is a key development in technology with significant military and civilian applications. While radar’s development was a collaborative effort involving many scientists and countries, the foundational work of our very own Guglielmo Marconi played a crucial role in its inception. Marc...

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A year from now we will see a humanoid robot running the 100 meters at the Naples Stadium. And, why not, also the long jump, high jump and other Olympic disciplines. It sounds like science fiction but it is now an established reality that, with the launch of low-cost robots, will become more and more widespread. For now, however, it is an all-Neapo...

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InnovUp – Italian Innovation & Startup Ecosystem , the Association that brings together and represents the Italian ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship, has published a series of strategic proposals to strengthen and unite the innovation chain and encourage the construction of an Italian Startup Nation. The premise is that Italy still suffers f...

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For the second year, the San Francisco Italian Consulate, The Italian Trade Agency, and INNOVIT sponsored a four-day forum of forty startups, fifteen major Italian corporations, and scores of enablers. The event was held at the INNOVIT Italian Innovation and Cultural Hub building in downtown San Francisco. The forum showcased Italian Innovation acr...

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Collaboration between Emilia Romagna and California is being strengthened, which as of today has one more tool thanks to a memorandum of understanding, signed by the presidency of the Emilia Romagna region Stefano Bonaccini and the U.S. governor, Gavin Newsom, to jointly address the challenge of climate change and identify common actions on the lev...

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Italian companies could increase the added value they create by about 50 billion euros ($54.30 billion) by 2030 with the generalised use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to a study by Accenture. The research was presented at an annual meeting in Rome of the Leonardo Committee, a business group promoting "Made in Italy".  Anothe...

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