Smartphones and tablets will be banned in Italian classrooms - even for teaching purposes - under new guidelines in Italy. “The use of smartphones and tablets can often create tension between students and teachers, sometimes also leading to acts of aggression against school staff,” said Italy's education minister Giuseppe Valditara. The ban will i...
READ MOREThe Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and the National Science Foundation of the United States of America (NSF) are issuing a call for funding for research projects under a Memorandum of Understanding between the two entities aimed at further strengthening cooperation in the field of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on joint resear...
READ MOREThe very first Made in Italy high school is a reality: from January 23, 2024 students will be able to enrol. A bulletin has been published and sent to educational institutions and regions containing the operational instructions for enrolling in the first classes of the new school, which was approved by Italy's parliament on December 20, for the 202...
READ MOREAmerican immunologist Anthony Fauci has agreed to act in an informal capacity as a strategic advisor to Rino Rappuoli, scientific director of the Biotecnopolo biotech hub in Siena, an institution founded by the Ministries of the University, Health, Economy and Industry with the aim of focusing on applied research in biotechnologies and life science...
READ MOREThe supercomputer LEONARDO, jointly funded by EuroHPC and CINECA on behalf of Italian Ministry of University and Research, reached the 4th position on the latest release of the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, as announced at the SC22 conference in Dallas, Texas on November 14, 2022. This milestone rewards CINECA’s 50-year c...
READ MOREThe fifth edition of ‘Che Storia!’, creative writing team competition for students of the Italian secondary schools, will be promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to the Italian schools abroad, state and state-authorized private schools, alongside the Italian sections of international and foreign schools....
READ MOREInnovitalia è la piattaforma gestita dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca per la diffusione di informazioni e per il networking degli attori della ricerca e dell’innovazione italiana all’estero. Innovitalia favorisce le relazioni tra il sistema della ricerca scientifica in Italia e all’estero, e tra i ri...
READ MOREThe Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) instituted the “Italian Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award” in the year 2016 to recognize an Italian experienced scientist who, in performing his/her research abroad, has made a remarkable contribution to the advancement of science and technology, thus improving Italy...
READ MOREVirus-hit Italy has closed its schools until September, but is drawing up plans to re-open nurseries and hold mini summer schools for children desperate to play after two months of lockdown. Kindergartens and day nurseries may be used from June for small groups of children aged zero to six years, according to plans being drawn up by the education m...
READ MOREÈ stata firmata nei giorni scorsi, precisamente giovedì 12 settembre, una Dichiarazione d’Intenti fra la Farnesina e la Fondazione Reggio Children – Centro Loris Malaguzzi, nata nel 2011 a Reggio Emilia con l’obiettivo di promuovere progetti di solidarietà attraverso la ricerca nel settore dell’educazione. Il "Reggio Emilia Approach" è una filosofi...
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