Closed projects
In collaboration with the Research and Innovation Unit for Schools of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, this initiative, which forms part…
The project involves three secondary schools of Parma. The main objective of the project is to study the different perceptions…
Merck Serono intends to strengthen its commitment to spreading and promoting a culture of science, turning this time to a…
The ‘Youth, Science and Technology’ survey, promoted and coordinated by Observa and Pristem Bocconi in the spring 2017, was carried…
The SHARPER project wants to make the researchers’ quest for excellence accessible to everybody in cities and communities where researchers…
In recent years, an increasing number of research institutions at national and European level has devoted time and resources to…
The TIME for NANO Project aims at engaging the general public, with a special attention to young people, on benefits…
Italian health activities increasingly require the contribution of transfusion medicine. Despite the fact that Italy as a whole has now…
Is climate changing due to human activities? Do GMOs effectively address food challenges at the global level? Are nanotechnology developments…
In 2007 ATO of Valle del Chiampo, a consortium of thirteen municipalities in the western area of the Province of…
ESCITY is the acronym of Europe, Science and the City: promoting scientific culture at local level, a two-year project (2006-2007)…
Stem cells, biotechnology, genetic testing, privacy, nanotechnology, neurosciences: nowadays, politics deals more and more frequently with decision making-processes concerning science…
Gender equity in techno-scientific careers has become one of the central issues in the research and innovation policies agenda of…
EcoGenEtic.com is an organ of multidisciplinary study and research on the question of risk management on plant exogenous gene transfer…
Almost 80% of Italian citizens are favourable to the use of DNA tests use in the fight to crime, particularly…
A large part (70%) of Italian citizens think that the media do not pay enough attention to biotechnologies and would…
Within the framework of the first European Science & Society Forum 2005, promoted by the European Commission to highlight the…
Contemporary techno-scientific innovations have raised a fall in traditional decision making processes showing the weakness of experts’ system and the…
The decreasing interest of youth towards studying science subjects is a perceived phenomenon in many countries of the world. Less…
Observa, in collaboration with the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie and The Regione Veneto, has fulfilled a study on consumers…
Italians are getting more and more skeptical towards GMOs (68% of respondents considers them unsafe, compared to 49% in 2001),…
Observa has just concluded a survey in five European countries (Italy, Germany, UK, Norway and Portugal) on the most common…
A first attempt to analyse, by way of a field study, the expectations people have when visiting museums, and particularly…
Project Inside the Big Black Box (IN3B), Analysis and evaluation of the impact on visitors of public visits programme to…
Project PARADYS “Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning – the Case of Biotechnology. Images of Self and Others in…
The second survey of ‘Biotechnologies and public opinion in Italy’, resulting from a cooperation between the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Poster…
Observa, together with Poster, a research center active in the field of social research and in particular in the area…