Matteo Parenzan ha conquistato la medaglia d'oro nel tennistavolo classe 6 alle Paralimpiadi di Parigi.

È una giornata straordinaria per l'Università di Trieste, che gioisce e si commuove vedendo Parenzan, studente di Scienze Politiche e dell'Amministrazione, salire sul gradino più alto del podio al termine di un torneo perfetto, senza sbavature, in cui non ha concesso neanche un set agli avversari.

L'atleta triestino è stato protagonista di un percorso inarrestabile che lo ha visto anche detronizzare in semifinale il campione paralimpico in carica Seidenfeld e successivamente travolgere in finale il pongista thailandese Thainiyom, davanti a 4500 spettatori.

A 21 anni Matteo realizza con il trionfo paralimpico una sorta di Grande slam del ping pong, dopo essere diventato campione del mondo a Granada nel 2022 e campione europeo a Sheffield nel 2023.

Una storia sportiva fantastica fatta di determinazione e impegno davanti ai quali restiamo ammirati.

In piazzale Europa sventola idealmente la bandiera paralimpica con i tre agitos blu, rosso e verde, simbolo in movimento attorno a un punto centrale che rappresenta lo spirito degli atleti che costantemente ispirano e smuovono il mondo con le loro performance, lottando senza arrendersi alle proprie disabilità.

Questa sera anche la nostra Minerva vuole condividere la gioia e il dolce peso al collo della medaglia d'oro, grazie Matteo per le emozioni che ci hai fatto vivere in queste Paralimpiadi.

Il 15 settembre UniTS si illumina di verde per celebrare la Giornata Nazionale SLA, istituita per ricordare il primo sit-in dei malati in Piazza Bocca della Verità a Roma, avvenuto il 18 settembre 2006.

Da allora, ogni anno, tra la metà di settembre e la prima settimana di ottobre, AISLA promuove iniziative in tutta Italia per rinnovare l’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica, delle autorità politiche, sanitarie e socio-assistenziali sui bisogni di cura e assistenza dei malati di Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica. 

I fondi raccolti nelle piazze italiane, dove è possibile aderire all’iniziativa “Un contributo versato con gusto”, è fornire aiuti concreti per migliorare la qualità di vita delle persone con SLA e delle loro famiglie. Dal sostegno finanziario per garantire l’assistenza domiciliare continua, al trasporto con mezzi attrezzati, dal supporto ai progetti di vacanze accessibili, fino alla consulenza e il supporto per le pratiche burocratiche, legali e previdenziali.

GIORNATA NAZIONALE SLA 2024

As part of the activities of SiS FVG, the Scientific and Innovation System of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which coordinates 17 regional research and innovation entities, Area Science Park in collaboration with the University of Trieste is promoting for the second year a series of seminars on the topics of intellectual property and the exploitation of research results, making use of the experience of expert speakers in technical and legal aspects from the GLP group.

The initiative, created to disseminate knowledge of intellectual property to students, faculty and researchers at the University, is open to all interested parties.

The seminars will be held at the UniTS CLab, 40 F. Severo Street (Former Military Hospital), in Trieste.

Participation in the seminars is free of charge, after registering at the following link   

PROGRAM:

• Module 1 - Overview of Intellectual Property Rights - Patent Focus

  September 26, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

  Speaker: Stefano Ligi

• Module 2 - New discipline of inventions in the academic field (art.65 C.P.I.)

  October 9, 2024 from 16:00 to 18:00 hours

  Speaker: Lorenzo Fabro

• Module 3 – NDA e Licensing

      October 14, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

      Speaker: Lawyer Erika Poletti

• Module 4 - Copyright e Creative Commons

      November 13, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

      Speaker: Lawyer Carmela Barilà

For information:  clab@units.it 

The ‘Mille e una Vela Cup’ (thousand and one sails cup) university trophy will be held in Trieste from 25th to 29th September, with the UniTS AUDACE team among the participants with its three boats ‘Lina’, ‘Dedalo’ and ‘Bai - Lina Rossa’.

The University sailing team's laser-focus objective is simple: to consolidate the victories of the previous three editions.

Hosted by the ADRIACO Yacht Club and organised with the cooperation of the University of Trieste in the year of its 100th Anniversary, the international regatta will see sailboats designed, built and sailed by university students.

Only boats made with materials that guarantee a high degree of recyclability and environmental sustainability will be admitted to the competition.

During the three-day regatta, the ‘1001VELAcup’ Challenge Trophy and the ‘Paolo Padova’ Trophy will be awarded. The first is contested with boats designed and built by students and with crews formed exclusively by them. The second features crews formed by a teacher and a student.

The ‘Mainaldo Maneschi Prize’ will also be awarded for the best boat project, combining the evaluation of the competing projects with the results of the regattas.

Seminars and in-depth lectures on design techniques are also planned.

1001 Vela Cup

A journey that followed in the footsteps of the digital revolution, in the place that is the global symbol of technological innovation, of the visionary and courageous creativity of the start-ups that have conquered markets and transformed the world over the last thirty years.

This is the summary of the California Tech Tour undertaken by Silvia De Cleva, Nicandro Alberto di Salvia and Francesco Zamar, the University of Trieste students who won the 2023 edition of the CLab Think Tank.

The stimulating week-long educational experience allowed the three young people to visit institutions and centres of excellence, among the most important and influential places of innovation development and entrepreneurship culture in the world.

The trip, organised by the UniTS Innovation Office, began in San Bernardino at the ESRI-Environmental System Research Institute and the University of Redlands, where they met leading figures from academic governance and the business world. 

Later, in San Francisco, they were welcomed by Consul Sergio Strozzi at the Consulate General of Italy. In the same city, the clabbers got to know the reality of INNOVIT, thanks to a presentation by Director Alberto Acito, who illustrated the possibilities offered to Italian start-ups in the US.

A highlight of the trip was the seminar at the UC Berkeley University Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, where the UniTS students were able to learn advanced entrepreneurship strategies. 

The trip concluded with a visit to Silicon Valley, where they were given access to Google, one of the companies symbolising the technological revolution and the web economy, and NASA, the world's most important aerospace agency and a leader in technological innovation. 

For our clabbers, it was an exciting experience in an international network of extraordinary dynamism, from which they returned with an injection of knowledge and expertise in business development.

The University of Trieste is currently participating in the EAIE (European Association for International Education) Conference, Europe's most important fair dedicated to international education. The event, which takes place in Toulouse, France, is a meeting point for academic professionals from all over Europe and beyond.

With a dedicated stand, UniTS has the opportunity to strengthen relations with existing partner universities and initiate new international collaborations.

‘EAIE represents a strength and a necessity in the education of the future ruling class. Thanks to various international education programmes students come into contact with different cultures and different countries, strengthening their awareness as citizens of the world. And the strengthening of international education programmes is one of the goals of UniTS!’ These were the words of Prof. Barbara Milani, Deputy Rector for International Relations and Mobility, who attended the event.

The new Major Project of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs nad International Cooperation (MAECI) entitled ‘CoReng - Conservation of the Religions Complex in Old Cairo through the integration of geosciences and earthquake engineering’ has been launched.

The Italy-Egypt bilateral scientific and technological collaboration project, coordinated by Chiara Bedon, involves UniTS with researchers and lecturers from the Department of Engineering and Architecture (DIA) and the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Geosciences (MIGe). 

CoReng's theme is ‘New Technologies applied to Cultural and Natural Heritage’.

The objective is to develop new methodologies for monitoring, assessing the vulnerability, hazard and seismic risk of the monumental buildings of the Religious Complex in Old Cairo. These are highly specialised and multidisciplinary activities, which demonstrate the strong synergy between the various fields of civil engineering and geosciences.

For DIA, in addition to Chiara Bedon, Marco Fasan, Raul Berto, Alessio Bortot, Stefano Bozza, Alessandro Mazelli (PhD student) and Franco Vaccari (with a CoReng research grant) are involved. Fabio Romanelli is collaborating on the project for MIGe.

The joint activities will be carried out in cooperation with colleagues at the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) in Cairo, coordinated by Hesham Mossa.

CoReng is one of the four projects (out of more than 100 applications) selected for the new 2024-2026 Executive Programme, and provides funding of €200,000

The sixth edition of CFC - Climbing for Climate, promoted by the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development (RUS) and the Italian Alpine Club (CAI), has just come to an end in the beautiful setting of the Marmolada glacier. 

The main objective was to raise public awareness to the rapid melting of glaciers by emphasising the need to rethink our relationship with the mountain environment. In this specific case, a different usage model of the Marmolada has been proposed, one that no longer sees it exclusively as a perfect mountain for mountaineering and skiing – as defined by Dino Buzzati – but rather as a master mountain capable of teaching and guiding towards a more conscious and respectful approach to the fragile Alpine ecosystem.

The Marmolada, one of the most iconic glaciers in the Dolomites, is today at the centre of an accelerated melting process. During the two-day event, participants took part in a ‘participatory glaciological campaign’, promoted by the Italian Glaciological Committee and the Museum of Geography of the University of Padua, which allowed them to observe at first hand the dramatic effects of climate change and the gradual shrinking of the glacier.

The Manifest for another Marmolada.

At the end of the two-day event, the Manifest for another Marmolada was officially presented, a document created to trigger a concrete trend reversal regarding the intensive exploitation of natural resources.

Signatories of the manifesto included the University of Trieste, which joined the initiative with the participation of Prof. Ilaria Garofolo, who emphasised the importance of giving continuity to the work of Prof. Maurizio Fermeglia, who passed away before his time. Fermeglia, who had always been a passionate mountaineer and promoter of concrete actions against climate change, participated in the first edition of Climbing for Climate on the Adamello glacier in 2019.

For more details on the event and to download the Manifest for another Marmolada, please visit the RUS site

The first edition of the Summer School of Energy Law was held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana.

The Summer School, organised in cooperation with the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UniTS, the University of Ljubljana and the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), was attended by 52 selected candidates from 15 countries and several international experts. 

The active participation and discussions between the speakers and participants made the educational experience particularly enriching, representing a valuable opportunity for in-depth study on crucial issues for Europe's energy future and fostering the consolidation of cooperation in the energy sector between Italian and Slovenian universities and ACER.

The organising committee was composed of Andrea Crismani, full professor, and Giacomo Biasutti, associate professor, from UniTS, the associate professors Bruna Žuber and Bruno Nikolić (coordinators), the associate professor Marjan Kos, the assistant Matevž Bedič and Silvia Manessi

E’ stato rinnovato oggi alla presenza del Questore di Trieste, Pietro Ostuni, l’accordo tra la Polizia di Stato e l’Università degli Studi di Trieste per la prevenzione e il contrasto dei crimini informatici che hanno per oggetto i sistemi e i servizi informativi delle Piccole e Medie Imprese e Pubbliche Amministrazioni Locali.

La convenzione, firmata dal rettore UniTS Roberto Di Lenarda e dal Dirigente del C.O.S.C. - Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni per il Friuli Venezia Giulia Assunta Esposito rientra nell’ambito delle direttive impartite dal Ministro dell’Interno per il potenziamento dell’attività di prevenzione alla criminalità informatica attraverso la stipula di accordi con enti, operatori e amministrazioni che forniscono prestazioni essenziali.

Il protocollo continuerà a garantire la condivisione di analisi di informazioni idonee a prevenire attacchi o danneggiamenti che possano pregiudicare la sicurezza delle infrastrutture informatiche dell’Università degli Studi di Trieste, facilitando la tempestiva gestione di emergenze relative a vulnerabilità, minacce ed incidenti in danno della regolarità dei servizi di comunicazione.

In caso di incidente informatico, poi, il Centro Operativo e l’Università collaboreranno per l’identificazione dell’origine dell’attacco, realizzando altresì attività di comunicazione reciproca per fronteggiare la contingente situazione di crisi. 

Il rinnovo è stato anche occasione per implementare un’ulteriore forma di collaborazione, vale a dire la possibilità, per le Parti, che il proprio personale frequenti reciprocamente corsi di formazione nelle materie di specifico interesse. 

Nello specifico, alcuni operatori della Polizia Postale frequenteranno l'insegnamento “cybersecurity” della Laurea magistrale in Ingegneria elettronica e informatica, tenuto da Alberto BARTOLI, Professore ordinario di Cybersecurity e reti di calcolatori al Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura dell’Università di Trieste.

Nei mesi a seguire, la Polizia Postale terrà alcuni seminari, rivolti agli studenti e al personale universitario, al fine di arricchire il loro bagaglio culturale  con contributi esperienziali sulle modalità di prevenzione e di contrasto al cybercrime.

 “Per la Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni, l’articolazione specialistica della Polizia di Stato che si occupa della prevenzione e repressione del cybercrime in tutte le sue cangianti declinazioni – ha concluso Assunta Esposito, Dirigente del Centro Operativo per la sicurezza cibernetica FVG – il rinnovo del protocollo d’intesa rappresenta la riprova della proficua collaborazione tra Istituzioni nell’ambito di quella sicurezza partecipata che ha come obiettivo comune la tutela della cybersicurezza, nelle sue molteplici sfumature.”

“Oggi rinnoviamo e consolidiamo un accordo a cui l’Università di Trieste tiene in modo particolare – ha sottolineato il rettore Roberto Di Lenarda – il dialogo diretto con la Polizia Postale consente alla comunità UniTS di mettere in campo strategie efficaci per difendersi dagli attacchi informatici, aumentare la consapevolezza delle nuove generazioni ai rischi connessi e, allo stesso tempo, di mettere a disposizione le nostre competenze d’eccellenza a chi ogni giorno combatte il cybercrime, sempre più diffuso”.

Nella foto: il Rettore Roberto Di Lenarda, il Questore di Trieste Pietro Ostuni e la Dirigente del C.O.S.C. - Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni per il Friuli Venezia Giulia Assunta Esposito.