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Italian Research Day in the World

Every year on April 15th, on the anniversary of the birth of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Italian Research Day in the world is celebrated. Last year in Singapore, the day was dedicated to Italian technology applied to art and cultural heritage.

This year the Day is celebrating a crucial historical moment in which Italy and the whole world are facing the COVID-19 pandemic and offers the opportunity to reflect on the importance of scientific collaboration in the search for a cure.

This is the video recorded message by the exceptional testimonial of the day, Walter Ricciardi, Councilor of the Minister of Health for Italy’s relations with international health organizations.

Italy is universally recognized as an excellence in the scientific field and for its important consequences for human development, not only in the medical field, but also the important repercussions of innovation in commercial terms.

To spread the knowledge of this excellence, an important contribution comes from the network of twenty-six scientific attachés and two space officials, present in twenty-one strategic countries, who offer their technical expertise in the context of many Italian Embassies abroad, coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and which allow with their activities to strengthen bilateral collaboration in science and technology.

Over the past three years, this network has made it possible to finance 285 major projects with 16 countries and 400 exchanges of researchers. Among these, there are also important projects for the fight against COVID-19, such as the supercomputer Exscalate, which is virtually testing the most effective molecules to inhibit virus replication – a platform developed among others by Cineca and Milan Polytechnic University -, or mathematical model developed by Italian researchers from Temple University, “La Sapienza” University of Rome and the Accademia dei Lincei, which allows to predict the spread of the pandemic in Italy, helping to optimize medical resources.