"PNRR unique opportunity to relaunch research and training"
19 May 2021 - The PNRR is a great opportunity to relaunch Italian scientific research, from basic research to technology transfer with companies, to plan the Italy of the future. They agree on the way forward in the coming years Minister of University and Research Maria Cristina Messa, The President of the National Research Council Maria Chiara Carrozza and achievement President of the Accademia dei Lincei Giorgio Parisi, visiting today atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma on the occasion of the appointment to Professor Emeritus of Massimo Inguscio, professor of matter physics and outgoing president of the CNR.
In the great hall of the University, Professor Inguscio he was welcomed by students and colleagues who accompanied him throughout his long academic experience and by the President of the Accademia dei Lincei Giorgio Parisi who sent a video greeting message.
"The government is thinking about the future: the PNRR has a mission dedicated to universities, research and training, a very strong signal that demonstrates how the world of scientific research and training have been placed on an important level - said the Minister of Mass. Today we are facing a unique opportunity to relaunch research and the university: the funds are there to restore stability and make programming, now we need to act. And research institutions will have to be able to take full advantage of this opportunity".
"Today theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma sees the work carried out in recent years in research recognized thanks to the presence of fundamental institutions for the country such as the CNR and the Accademia dei Lincei - has explained Raffaele Calabrò, Rector ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma - The University is growing in the areas of biomedicine, information technology, circular economy and robotics in a climate of great collaboration with other Italian and international universities, with other research institutes and the world of industry".
A strategic collaboration, the one with the CNR, launched with joint projects since 2004, also consolidated with the signing of a framework agreement in 2012 that is still active and which includes various agreements between UCBM and various CNR Departments. The last agreement signed in 2020 activated, at UCBM, an interdepartmental Research Unit of the CNR, with the Departments of Physics and Bio-Agrifood Sciences. Numerous researches conducted in collaboration and based on competitive tenders, European, national and regional projects. Also important is the national doctoral program on Artificial Intelligence being activated in collaboration with the CNR and four other Italian universities, for which UCBM she is the leader for the course with a specialization in the thematic area of Health and Life Sciences.
"I believe that today the University must work on the economic and social value of education – concluded the Rector Calabrò - Making young people passionate about scientific research means making them understand the economic and social repercussions to give the country a future".
In his lectio magistralis Massimo Inguscio he recalled the long “journey of discovery” of his professional life and, in indicating the direction in which Italian scientific research should go, he underlined its importance for the future of the country: “We need young people to build a multidisciplinary future. We need coherence of atoms, coherence of light but we also need coherent strategies for research. Science has shown how there are always surprises and new possibilities. The spring of curiosity is inside man and will never run out. Politics has finally understood how important research is for the planet and for man and therefore for the financing of research and the recruitment of new researchers. Here atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma the "supermultidisciplinarity" that unites knowledge and creates fertile ground for producing innovations in many sectors, from medicine to agriculture, mixing many different professionalisms is already being achieved".
And in his first outing as president of the National Research Council Maria Chiara Carrozza he recalled: “Our job is to make people believe in science, in research, in the future. Fundamental research and collaboration with business are important to achieve industrial leadership."
