Projects

Towards the new International System of Units

The world in which we live and work is marked by time and populated by objects with measurable quantities.

Publication date 12/12/2018

Source Redazione ResearchItaly

Aging and physical exercise, programme for the elderly launched in Cagliari

120 elderly people involved for twelve weeks in a programme of “soft” motor activities and cultural activities is the aim of the clinical study Active aging and health launched by the University...

Publication date 12/05/2018

Source Università di Cagliari

Bionic limbs: 10 million euro ERC grant to IIT project that aims to revolutionize prosthetics

Developing next generation bionic limbs that feel like natural limbs is the objective of the recently launched Natural Bionics project, a major research project in which Italy is involved through the Italian...

Publication date 11/28/2018

Source IIT

A microchip and a blood sample for allergy testing: launch of the IntegrAL project

One drop of blood will determine in a few minutes whether children have an allergy. The IntegrAL project, coordinated by a team of Italian researchers at the University of Bologna, aims to create a new...

Publication date 11/26/2018

Source Università degli Studi di Bologna

Urban Forests, first World Forum in Mantua

More than 400 experts from over 50 countries around the world will meet in Mantua to discuss – for the first time all together at the global level – the importance of integrating grey and green...

Publication date 11/23/2018

Source World Forum on Urban Forests

Tiger mosquito: Italy to lead first European project to respond to the emergency

The research team led by Alessandra della Torre, from the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, will lead the first European project aimed at managing the risk...

Publication date 11/21/2018

Source Università Sapienza di Roma

POTION: how odours can help improve social interaction and health

Is it possible to smell fear or happiness? What organic substances the human body gives off when it experiences these emotions? And can the molecules produced in these cases, if any, affect the behaviour...

Publication date 11/14/2018

Source Università degli Studi di Pisa

Horizon Europe, dialogue between the Italian research and innovation community and Europe

The aim is to have an open dialogue with European stakeholders to find convergences on Horizon Europe, the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation that will replace Horizon 2020...

Publication date 11/12/2018

Source Redazione ResearchItaly

Launch of the European Consortium EPOS ERIC for the collection of data that will help understand natural phenomena

EPOS-European Plate Observing System, the Pan-European research infrastructure dedicated to the study of Earth’s dynamics, is now a European Consortium, EPOS ERIC, which is hosted in Rome, Italy...

Publication date 11/09/2018

Source MIUR

IFPU, the Institute that will study the physics of the Universe, opened in Trieste

Our history is closely linked to that of the formation and evolution of the Universe. Several elements, however, are still missing which could help us to fully understand this history. Fundamental questions...

Publication date 11/08/2018

Source INFN

Food quality and safety: ENEA holds the leadership of the METROFOOD-RI project

For the first time, an Italian-led research infrastructure was selected among the excellences in the “Health&Food” area of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures-ESFRI...

Publication date 10/31/2018

Source ENEA

ConnectToBrain: a new approach to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

The European Research Council-ERC has awarded a 10 million euro grant to the ConnectToBrain project under the Synergy Grants funding scheme. The project aims to radically improve the techniques for Transcranial...

Publication date 10/29/2018

Source Università degli Studi “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

ALS: Italian Technology Institute identified a possible cause for disease development

The formation of noxious aggregates inside motoneurons in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is reportedly associated with a specific protein which seems to make cellular structures...

Publication date 10/26/2018

Source IIT

Regenerative medicine, fighting osteoarthritis with ARTE

The challenge is to develop, through cross-border cooperation, innovative solutions in the field of regenerative medicine to fight osteoarthritis: a disabling disease associated with pain caused by cartilage...

Publication date 10/25/2018

Source Consorzio ARTE

Cancer: Italy, Spain and United Kingdom allied with six new research projects

An investment of 33 million euro allocated to six new international research projects, three of which to be carried out by Italian researchers. These are the new 5-year studies of the Accelerator Award...

Publication date 10/23/2018

Source AIRC

BepiColombo mission launched, Europe to discover Mercury

On Saturday 20 October 2018, a launch from the European spaceport of Kourou, French Guyana, set off BepiColombo, the mission under European leadership which aims at exploring Mercury, the planet closest...

Publication date 10/22/2018

Source ASI

Nuclear fusion: supercomputer for European research to be built in Italy

ENEA and CINECA have won an international competition to build in Italy a supercomputer for European nuclear fusion research, capable of performing 8 million billion operations per second (8 Pflops) thanks...

Publication date 10/19/2018

Source ENEA

ARIA: in Sulcis-Iglesiente the project for the production of stable isotopes

The aim is to separate air into its constituent components in order to obtain useful elements for a wide range of applications, from fundamental physics research to medicine.

Publication date 10/15/2018

Source INFN

Natural disasters: ARISTOTLE 2 project for setting up a European scientific partnership ready to start

An event taking place at the INGV-National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology is launching the ARISTOTLE 2-ENHSP (European Natural Hazard Scientific Partnership) project, coordinated by INGV.

Publication date 10/11/2018

Source INGV

Blockchain, project for the recognition of refugees’ qualifications presented at MIUR

The blockchain technology will serve the needs of people thanks to an innovative project for the recognition of qualifications held by refugees, promoted by the Ministry of Education, University and Research...

Publication date 10/09/2018

Source MIUR