The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has announced the allocation of €63 million under the 2024 IV Call of the Higher Education Initiative. The funding will support 47 cross-sector projects aimed at strengthening the innovation capacity of higher education institutions across Europe. Among the selected projects is CREATECH, coordinated by the Department of Social sciences and humanities, cultural heritage of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Dsu), with contributions from Cnr’s Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean (Cnr-ISMed) and Institute of Heritage Science (Cnr-Ispc). Launched on 1 April 2025 and running until April 2027, the project was officially kicked off at an international meeting held on 21 May

On June 5th, 2025, as part of the Ocean Wonders initiative of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the Italian research vessel R/V Gaia Blu welcomed 236 participants on board in the Port of Nice. It was a vibrant day of dialogue and exchange on ocean science, cooperation, and sustainability

Green light to extend operations until 2033 at the ILL, the world-leading facility in neutron science and technology: the Institute has just received a firm commitment from its Associate countries, France, the UK and Germany, to continue operation until 2033. The National Research Council of Italy (Cnr) manages an agreement ensuring the involvement of the Italian scientific community to the facility

On the latest issue of "Horizon Magazine", the groundbreaking EU-funded study led by Daniele Sanvitto, a physicist at Cnr-Nanotec, which succeeded in creating “supersolid light”, is described

A research team coordinated by the Cnr and Ca' Foscari University worked intensively for 15 days at an altitude of 4,100 metres on the Corbassière glacier, within the Grand Combin massif, on the Italian-Swiss border. They have extracted two ice cores, reaching all the way to the base of the glacier. One of these will be sent to the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Antarctica  to be preserved for future generations of scientists. This was the first mission conducted as part of "Follow the Ice – The Memory of Glaciers", an initiative by Ca' Foscari University Foundation supported by SEA BEYOND, a Prada Group project carried out in partnership with UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC) since 2019

Researchers from CNR Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (Cnr-Imm) and Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (Cnr-Isof), in collaboration with Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna, have developed innovative nanostructured microelectrodes integrating silicon nanowires, capable of recording and identifying the electrical activity of pain-sensing neurons in vitro

Freshwater under the Ocean – in the 1960's scientists were quite surprised when they looked at their data: it clearly showed that there was fresh or freshened water under the ocean floor. How did it get there? How long has it been there? Scientists have been trying to find answers to these questions since their intriguing discovery. Starting in May, an international team of scientists has embarked on an expedition to take a closer look at, and take samples, of this freshened water stored beneath the ocean floor. Prof Karen Johannesson of University of Massachusetts Boston and Prof Brandon Dugan of Colorado School of Mines are the Co-Chief Scientists of this international expedition, which is also participated by Cnr-Igg Valentina Rossi

Cnr-Ism has established the Istituto di Struttura della Materia Prize (PRISM) to recognize the significant contribution of a researcher in the field of the study of the Structure of Matter in the last five years. Nominations are open for the 2025 edition of the PRISM award. Submission deadline: June 30th, 2025

An international project coordinated by the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the CNR led to an innovative hybrid laser and ion beam fabrication method in diamond, for high performance quantum bits to power quantum information and sensors. The research, published as a cover article in the journal Nano Letters, involved young researchers funded by the “Marie Skłodowska-Curie” European Doctoral Network programme

From May 5 to May 8, a delegation from the Civil Protection Department (DPC) and the Italian Consortium for Research on Risk Reduction-CI3R -participated by Cnr- traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia, to meet with AHA Centre, the intergovernmental organization for humanitarian assistance in disaster management founded by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

The first supplement to the corpus of Linear A inscriptions has just been published. M. Del Freo et J. Zurbach, Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A. Supplément 1, Études Crétoises 21.6, Athènes 2024, LXIV+256 pp. (ISBN 978-2-86958-642-0). This new volume—which incorporates all texts discovered since 1985 and made public up to 2023—adds 107 documents and 427 signs to the corpus