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HEREDITARY: The power of data sharing

Highlights, Highlights, Monitor, NewsBy Observa February 10, 2026

HEREDITARY is transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative and gut microbiome-related diseases through a secure and interoperable framework that integrates multimodal health data while ensuring privacy. The project focuses on neurodegenerative and gut microbiome-related diseases, harmonizing clinical, genomic, and environmental data to unlock previously impossible insights. Specifically, this means bringing together data currently scattered…

TRESCA

Closed projects, ProjectsBy massimo April 28, 2021

The European project Trustworthy, Reliable and Engaging Scientific Communication Approaches (TRESCA) has as its main objective the understanding of the expectations of the public and experts on science communication. The activities will involve researchers, journalists and public decision-makers to develop effective public communication practices and promote better information quality, transparency and the design of innovative and effective tools. The project will use qualitative and…

Communicating Science. A Global Perspective

PublicationsBy massimo September 18, 2020

Edited by Toss Gascoigne, Bernard Schiele, Joan Leach, Michelle Riedlinger, Bruce V. Lewenstein, Luisa Massarani, Peter Broks. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/CS.2020 Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university…

Book launch: “Communicating Science. A Global Perspective”

NewsBy massimo September 10, 2020

A new book ‘Communicating Science. A global perspective’ will be released on Monday 14 September. It includes a chapter on Italy. The book documents the global emergence of modern science communication. It has 40 chapters, 108 authors, and covers 39 countries. It’s a huge book: 996 pages. This is the first study describing how science…

PERSIST

Closed projects, ProjectsBy massimo August 21, 2019

PERSIST – Knowledge, beliefs and the perception of science among European students PERSIST_EU is an Erasmus+ project coordinated by the University of Valencia (Spain) which involves five European countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, Slovakia and Portugal). The following aims are included amongst the primary objectives: the production of a method of assessment relating to the forms…

LA BOTTEGA DELLA SCIENZA

Closed projects, ProjectsBy massimo August 21, 2019

In collaboration with the Research and Innovation Unit for Schools of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, this initiative, which forms part of the CISA (Cittadini per la Scienza) project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento aims first and foremost to create a series of procedures and methods that will allow the citizens of the Province…

OPEN

Closed projects, ProjectsBy massimo March 8, 2019

The project OPEN aims to investigate the central communication function at academic institutions, i.e. the PR/Communications offices in Portugal, the UK, Germany, Italy and Turkey and relationships with the meso-level, i.e. with the RIs that they host. This innovative study moves beyond previous ones given the new type of data collected, its scale and comparability.…

CONCISE

Closed projects, ProjectsBy ghwi5 November 8, 2018

CONCISE project aims to generate a European-wide debate on science communication, involving a wide array of stakeholders, from media outlets to policy makers, from scientists to business companies, from science communicators to civil society organisations. CONCISE aims at providing qualitative knowledge through citizen consultation on the means/channels (media and social networks, life experience, relatives, religion,…