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ViewItaly news roundup: 31 May to 13 June

This week: a space consortium and a ‘technopark’ for artificial intelligence in healthcare

ViewGo-ahead given to €5bn chips manufacturing plant

Plant will benefit from €2 billion in aid from Italian government

ViewItaly launches five facilities for life sciences R&I

Five ‘national platforms’ are based at the Human Technopole campus in Milan

ViewItaly news roundup: 17-30 May

This week: rectors call for a Gaza ceasefire and a professor suffers antisemitic threats

ViewAcademic council wants revised criteria for senior roles

Italy should give universities more flexibility over who they recruit and appoint, group says

ViewItaly news roundup: 3-16 May

This week: the first Italian field trial of a plant created using new genomic techniques

View‘Still no guidelines on risks of AI in Italian academia’

Professors unaware of any official guides to avoid misuse of AI in Italian research sector

ViewA Star is waiting to be born in Southern Italy

X-ray facility will offer “improvement comparable to moving from an incandescent bulb to a laser”

ViewItaly news roundup: 19 April to 2 May

This week: a university’s first female rector and a G7 science meeting agenda

ViewRectors’ body issues advice on campus protests

Conference of Italian University Rectors responds to calls for universities to boycott Israel

ViewItaly news roundup: 29 March to 18 April

This week: gender linguistics on campus and pharmaceutical success

ViewItalian universities discuss how to attract international students

Rising demand for foreign students is driving competition to attract talent, event hears

ViewItaly news roundup: 15-28 March

This week: a national day for universities and promotion of Italian cultural institutions abroad

ViewItalian research commission to launch, at long last

Commission is intended to strengthen governance of National Research Plan 2021-27

ViewTorino abstention from Israel programme sparks controversy

University’s academic senate voted against taking part in bilateral research programme amid student urging

ViewItaly news roundup: 1-14 March

This week: economics and social studies call, new board for evaluation agency, Italy-US AI collaboration

ViewWomen face harassment and violence at Italian universities

Student survey shows gender-based violence is rife

ViewItaly news roundup: 16-29 February

This week: accreditation for arts PhDs, progress on gender equality and the right to protest

ViewItaly warned of ‘huge problem’ when EU Covid fund ends

President of evaluation agency says researchers will be left without support

ViewItaly news roundup: 2-15 February

This week: Science bodies sign agreement, uproar over sexism in Turin, not-for-profits given funding boost

ViewStruggle continues for gender equality at Italy’s universities

Women in academia still glued to ‘sticky floor’ holding them back from advancement

ViewItaly news roundup: 19 January to 1 February

This week: knowledge-sharing site revamped, Catholic universities agree research alliance, new physics labs in Trieste

ViewLockdowns fostered greater academic productivity

Study shows Italian researchers were the busiest authors

ViewResearch Council bemoans Italy’s lack of vision on R&D

Performance in research and innovation lags behind European neighbours

ViewItaly news roundup: 5-18 January

This week: launching digital education hubs and contributing to a new science campus

ViewItaly’s PhD students face mental health crisis

Half the country’s doctoral candidates show “clinically relevant” scores for depression, anxiety and stress

ViewItaly news roundup: 15 December to 4 January

This week: innovation seed grants and worries over COP

ViewItaly’s struggles with evaluation continue

Study suggests advent of assessment drove “anomalous” national citation patterns

ViewItaly news roundup: 1-14 December

This week: Slovenian links and an airforce mission

ViewItaly’s most highly cited researchers defend use of metrics

As support for dropping quantitative metrics gains steam, researchers are highlighting their benefits