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ViewA long battle

Italy’s researchers are wary of promised improvements to legislation around animal research

ViewItaly news roundup: 18-31 March

This week: departments of excellence, reform concerns, the Human Technopole and PhD guidelines

ViewOverhaul of Italian research praised by Milan vice-rector

Senior researcher Maria Pia Abbracchio says reformed schemes must now become “systemic, predictable and reliable”

ViewPublic professors and PhDs plummet in Italian universities

UnRest group hopes data on system can improve quality of debate about Italian higher education

ViewItaly news roundup: 4-17 March

This week: Partnership grants, ERC winners and support for refugee researchers

ViewItaly’s billion-euro bet on research

Country set to fund dozens of research sites with €4.48 billion EU pandemic-recovery cash

ViewItalian universities vie to become innovation hubs

Innovation ecosystems scheme has €1.3 billion in EU pandemic recovery money up for grabs

ViewItaly news roundup: 18 February to 3 March

This week: an animal research ban is delayed and rectors move slowly towards gender balance

ViewGender equality comes a step closer

EU initiatives could finally bring meaningful change for Italy’s female researchers

ViewItaly news roundup: 4-17 February

This week: ERC success, reports of the death of the National Research Agency and more

ViewItalian research experiencing small boom, says major report

Researcher numbers and spending on the rise but problems remain with PhDs and gender equality

ViewItaly news roundup: 21 January to 3 February

This week: degrees in public administration, European curricula and PhD extensions

ViewResearchers welcome €749m national interest project boon

Latest round of ‘PRIN’ funding adds to wave of competitive calls keeping research offices busy

ViewItalian universities look to build with recovery fund windfall

Research infrastructure and other facilities to be awarded €1.4 billion of EU Covid-19 comeback cash

ViewItaly news roundup: 1-20 January

This week: PhD accreditation, a strong ERC showing and a French tie-up

ViewThe fight for funding

Investment could help boost research and tackle chronic inequalities, but doubts remain

ViewItaly tops call for Mediterranean collaboration

Italian researchers lead nearly half of winning projects to boost science diplomacy

ViewThe value of evaluation

A growing concern about research metrics is causing Italy’s researchers to question funding decisions

ViewItaly news roundup: 3-16 December

This week: AI programme for 2022-24 gets approval, EMBL budget boost and CRUI promotes peace

ViewResearchers petition against favoured status of doctors

Italian contract law puts non-medical researchers at risk of job insecurity, says ARSI group

ViewItaly news roundup: 19 November to 2 December

This week: Italian researchers abroad, young women entrepreneurs and a funding windfall for international talent

ViewLobby group brings together Italian ERC winners

Grant-holders unite to push for more blue-sky research and retain talent in the country

ViewItaly’s universities demand centre stage in Covid-19 recovery

Academia is poised to boost the economy through science, tech and digitisation, rectors say

ViewItaly news roundup: 5-18 November

This week: infrastructure proposals, industrial PhDs in Latium and Pisa joins Circle U alliance

ViewItaly launches €1bn infrastructure roadmap

Plan outlines strategic local and international projects—but its implementation has yet to be detailed

ViewItaly news roundup: 22 October to 4 November

This week: digital public procurement, faster qualification for professionals, and Turin’s sustainable mobility academy

ViewGovernment offers spending boost to universities

Increase of €500m takes higher education financing in Italy to highest level since 2007

ViewCOP26: Good intentions, bad execution

Larger problems with research policy are to blame for Italy’s fragmented climate science

ViewItaly news roundup: 8-21 October

This week: a research registry, concerns over skills mismatch, and university action against the mafia

ViewMinistry submits proposal for research recovery mission

Guidelines set out scope and scale of funding under Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan