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ViewItaly news roundup: 4-17 October

The latest news in Italian research policy and funding

ViewClimatologists call on media to curtail anti-climate views

Petition to limit public's exposure to unscientific opinion gathers 5,000 signatures

ViewItaly news roundup: 20 September-3 October

The latest news in Italian research policy and funding

ViewRectors issue equality guidelines

Universities asked to report back on impact of gender equality initiatives

ViewFrascati to host giant nuclear fusion experiment

Tokamak facility expected to bring 1,500 jobs to the Rome region and help counter climate...

ViewItaly news roundup: 6-19 September

The latest news in Italian research policy and funding

ViewPaper on ‘citation gaming’ causes national debate

Italy’s researchers citing dramatically more papers written by their colleagues since research evaluation exercise introduced

ViewGlimmers of hope as government forms

Italy’s government crisis is over with the coalition sworn in. Scientists hope for better times

ViewItaly news roundup: 2 August-5 September

The latest news in Italian research policy and funding, covering the top-publishing government institutions, the...

ViewBullet posted to ERC researcher over animal rights

Letter containing bullet sent to neuroscientist using macaques to research blindness at Università di Torino

ViewItaly news roundup: 19 July-1 August

The latest news in Italian research policy and funding, covering low education spending, a university...

ViewAnimal research fees take Italy’s scientists by surprise

Italy’s researchers have reacted with outrage to the introduction of fees for government authorisation of...

ViewDrop image manipulation case, prosecutors recommend

Italian prosecutors have asked the Milanese courts to drop a misconduct case against cancer researchers...

ViewItaly news roundup: 5-18 July

The latest headlines in Italian research policy and funding, covering public-private PhDs, post-Brexit talent poaching...

ViewIIT and Bocconi join forces on innovation

The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), based in Genoa, and Milan’s Università Bocconi have announced...

View13-year education requirement ‘limits internationalisation’

Italy’s universities are struggling to become more international due to a law that requires potential...

ViewMinistry reduces red tape for small sums

An internal ruling by Italy’s research ministry has simplified the rules around research spending at...

ViewItaly news roundup: 7-20 June

The latest headlines in Italian research policy and funding, covering a mixed medicine and engineering...

ViewItaly sees slow growth in international student numbers

Italy’s universities are slowly increasing their attractiveness to international students, but a small number of...

ViewPhD ping-pong

Constant rule changes around the creation of PhD courses are confusing universities and damaging Italy’s...

ViewItaly news roundup: 24 May-6 June

The latest headlines in Italian research policy and funding, covering a biology consortium’s move to...

ViewCariplo foundation praises revised peer-review system

Fondazione Cariplo, one of Italy’s main non-profit research funders, has increased the number of publications...

ViewEvaluation agency official hints UK team-up could prove fruitful

A representative of the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research...

ViewItaly news roundup: 10-23 May

The latest headlines in Italian research policy and funding, covering the nature of private universities,...

ViewItalian researchers using ‘predatory publishers’

About 5 per cent of Italian researchers seeking promotion have published in so-called “predatory journals”...

ViewItaly news roundup: 19 April-9 May

The latest headlines in Italian research policy and funding, covering medical residencies, a finance security...

ViewSouthern Italy leads way for women in STEM

Italy is third in Europe in terms of recruiting female students into science, technology, engineering...

ViewEnglish and Italian funders work together on knowledge exchange

Research England has joined its Italian counterpart to support research assessment and the evaluation of...

ViewPetition fever not helping science

Signing a petition feels good—but Italian researchers need more than just numbers and goodwill to...

ViewItalian research is pulled towards the poles

Having long had an established base in the Antarctic, Italy’s researchers are now looking north....