The Sine Cura Prize goes to Minister Lamorgese

The acknowledgment assigned at the opening of the XIII edition of the Master UCBM in Homeland Security

11 March, 2021 - It was assigned on Thursday 11 March to the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese the prize “Sine Cura” as part of the opening day of the Master in Homeland Security of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, at the start of its XIII edition.

The award was given by Prof. Roberto Setola, scientific director of the master. The award, now in its fourth edition, is awarded for merits achieved in the field of security and intelligence. Alongside Minister Lamorgese, the award for the 2020 edition (postponed due to the pandemic) was also presented to Andrea Chittaro, Security Manager of Snam and President of Aipsa.

At the opening of the course, in mixed mode, in presence and remotely, the president of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Felice Barela, the Rector Prof. Raffaele Calabrò, Prof Marcella Trombetta, scientific coordinator of the Master as well as a representation of the students. 

"Sine Cura" was born in 2018 on the occasion of ten years of the "Master in Homeland Security - Systems, methods and tools for Security and Crisis Management" and rewards the figures who have best distinguished themselves in the safety and security sectors. In the first two editions, the award went to the then interior minister Marco Minniti and to the former Chief of Civil Protection Angelo Borelli.

The expression "sine cura", in Latin "without concern", it indicated those activities that a citizen did not have to deal with because they were delegated to others, and is at the origin of the term security: those who work in these areas have the necessary skills to guarantee the smooth running of social life, provide to risk prevention, provide timely intervention in case of emergencies.

The Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese was the most voted figure for the year 2020 in a survey carried out among all students of the Master with the approval of the scientific committee of the course. A pioneer master's degree in Italy which, in thirteen years of activity, has formed and started about 250 figures today active in the most important Italian industrial realities where they guarantee the safety of the infrastructures and the continuity of services.

“The awards we handed out today – explained the prof. Roberto Setola, director of the Master in Homeland Security – they well represent the approach of the Campus Bio-Medico University to bring cutting-edge training and research in collaboration with private companies and the public sector to build the growth of this sector with a view to ever greater integration between safety and security".

In addition to the master's degree in Homeland Security, the Campus Bio-Medico University is engaged in numerous activities with concrete repercussions in the industrial and occupational safety fields through projects such as Smartbench, aimed at verifying the health of workers in industrial environments through the use of the Internet of Things, 4ster to study the issues of cybersecurity in industrial plants or the project Rafael to develop methodologies for monitoring and controlling road infrastructures, bridges and power lines.

"This heritage of skills present in the university arrives every year in the master's degree in Homeland Security: a training moment in which not only academic figures participate and which sees a strong collaboration - concludes Bristle - with private and public sector companies.

THEUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma he has always held safety issues in strong consideration, not only in the context of his degree courses but also in the clinical and food safety fields, dedicating teaching and scientific research spaces with the primary objective of putting man at the center. The Masters in Homeland Security it is divided into teaching activities, training internships and project work for a total of 60 credits (ECTS) and a total of 1500 hours.