Il Sole 24 Ore and the Financial Times, two of the world’s leading business news organisations, are creating a major series of digital events to discuss the most effective measures to relaunch the Italian economy after COVID-19, with a particular focus on reviving the global Made in Italy brand. The opening day will be...
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GO! Confindustria International Meeting Platform
GO! is the Confindustria Platform created to host international initiatives and meetings in a digital space. Based on the experience of Connext, GO! is an International Meeting Platform where in-depth webinars, seminars, international events, virtual missions, virtual incoming of foreign delegations and business meetings between Italian and foreign companies can...
Alessandro Profumo is the new President of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe
The CEO of Leonardo Alessandro Profumo will lead the organisation for the next two years, representing the largest companies and over 3,000 SMEs and associations from 18 European countries. The appointment was made today at a ‘virtual’ meeting of the Association’s Board. “I am honoured to be given this role,...
Nutella special edition to celebrate Italy
Nutella has always inspired us to live with positivity, and once again wants to remind us that to grasp the good things in life we don’t need to look far, sometimes we just need to look around. This is why the Special Edition “Ti Amo Italia” was born, it will...
We Are All Connected: Saving Species and Preventing Pandemics
Our current global health crisis has highlighted the ways in which the health of humans, animals, and the environment are inextricably linked—a concept central to the work of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Global Health Program. The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution,...
IFIB – International Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy
IFIB2020 ENTERPRISE EUROPE NETWORK PARTNERING EVENT in Rome, a two days of pre-arranged face-to-face bilateral meetings (B2B) between Startups, Companies, Universities, pubblic and private Research Centres in the field of industrial biotechnology and bioeconomy. Participants will come from Europe and beyond to find potential partners for collaborations, business development, licensing...
Environment: New biodegradable sensor for building
Developing a system of autonomous and biodegradable sensors for monitoring environmental parameters inside homes, schools and offices. This is the objective of the project SENSIBILE (autonomous and biodegradable sensors for environmental monitoring in buildings) that ENEA is conducting as part of its Proof of Concept program, jointly with the company...
Plug-and-play lens simplifies adaptive optics for microscopy
Researchers from Cnr Institute for photonics and nanotechnologies have developed a new plug-and-play lens that can add adaptive optics correction to commercial optical microscopes. The device makes it easy for scientists to access to high-quality images from deep inside tissue Researchers have developed a new plug-and-play device that can add...
The molecule of natural origin that inhibits SARS-CoV-2
An international study involving the Institute of Nanotechnology of the Cnr (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) has found that quercetin acts as a specific inhibitor for the virus responsible for Covid-19, showing a destabilizing effect on 3CLpro, one of the key proteins for virus replication. The study is published in the International journal...
Artificial intelligence in Turin: the Politecnico join the Ellis European IA network
The application of the Politecnico di Torino to the prestigious European Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of Data ELLIS (European Laboratory on Learning and Intelligent Systems) has been officially accepted. The Politecnico joins the most advanced universities and research centers in Europe on AI, from Oxford and Cambridge to Zurich and...