The Institute of Nanoscience of the National Research Council of Italy is participating in Materials Commons, a new project funded by the Horizon Europe programme that aims to establish the first federated European digital infrastructure for advanced materials research and development. Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (Fraunhofer IWM) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the project brings together 26 research institutions from 14 European countries and more than 30 industrial partners, with a total budget of €28 million

The ESFRI Roadmap is Europe’s strategic plan that identifies and supports the most  important research infrastructures needed for future scientific and  technological development. NFFA2050, the new ESFRI Roadmap Infrastructure for research on advanced materials, will enrich the European Research Infrastructure (RI)  portfolio by offering a new infrastructure that provides integrated  access to a combination of unique resources – from large-scale facility  methods to highly specialized instruments in academic laboratories and  theoretical modelling – enabling multi-technique experiments on quantum  matter, advanced energy materials and biomaterials

The institutional event “AI and Cybersecurity for a Trustworthy Digital Europe: A Science for Policy Perspective", jointly organized by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), was held on June 4 in Brussels at the JRC headquarters on Rue du Champ de Mars. The occasion for the event was the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two institutions, a framework agreement aimed at strengthening scientific cooperation and promoting European policies based on solid, independent, and multidisciplinary evidence

A unique combination of favorable geological, logistical, and industrial conditions could make southeastern Sicily one of the Mediterranean’s leading hubs for permanent carbon dioxide (CO?) storage. That is the main conclusion of a study led by the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of Italy’s National Research Council (CNR-IGG), in collaboration with Carbfix and the University of Pisa, recently published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

The Meeting will be held  at the Polytechnic University of Bari, jointly organized by the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Ic) in Bari, the Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences at the University of Bari, and the Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry of the Polytechnic University of Bari

The European project Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice has achieved a remarkable scientific and logistical milestone by extracting the most detailed archive of climate and environmental history from an Antarctic ice core spanning 1.2 million years. In the recent campaign, researchers recovered rock fragments and collected additional ice core sections at a critical depth. Ongoing analyses are expected to provide data crucial for understanding the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, a significant phase in Earth’s climate development. Led by the Institute of Polar Sciences at the National Research Council (CNR-ISP), this project stands as one of the most ambitious efforts in palaeoclimatology 

Gaia Blu Ocean Generation Academy is a structured education program that integrates the presence of young generations as Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) in the operational scientific campaigns of the research vessel RV Gaia Blu. The program is born in response to one of the global challenges of the UN Ocean Decade 2021–2030 to create and grow the next generation of ocean professionals, capable of helping to build the ocean we want, each with their own specificity

The Italian Air Force, the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), and Prada Group will host two days of events in Rome on 13 and 14 April to celebrate the centenary of the first historic flight over the North Pole by General Umberto Nobile. To mark the occasion, the Historical Museum of the Italian Air Force will inaugurate a photographic exhibition featuring original images from Umberto Nobile’s expedition alongside contemporary works by climate artist Enzo Barracco