Presented the 31st
edition of Futuro Remoto

The press conference introducing the 31st edition of Futuro Remoto 2017 – Connections was presented today at Federico II University of Naples. Nine domes set up in the square with 12 thematic islands, 100 meetings with international guests, experts and researchers, about 10 thousand demonstrations and experiments with 2000 researchers involved. The event is promoted by Città della Scienza and realized with the Campania Region, the 7 Campania Universities, the Municipality of Naples and the MIUR – Regional School Office for Campania.

An issue, the 31st, with significant numbers. Nine pavilions set up in the square with 12 thematic islands, 100 meetings with international guests, experts and researchers, about 10 thousand demonstrations and experiments with 2000 researchers involved. The event is promoted by the City of Science and realized with the Campania Region, the 7 Campania Universities, the Municipality of Naples and the MIUR – Regional School Office for Campania.

A celebration of science celebrating innovation and technology

Conferenza stampa di Presentazione di Futuro Remoto 2017

Gaetano Manfredi, Rector of Federico II University of Naples and CRUI President, emphasized the value of the “great scientific event in collaboration with the whole regional university system. Futuro Remoto is a real happening of active participation. The role of universities must also be to strengthen the sense of participation as a transmission of knowledge. ” Vincenzo Lipardi, secretary general of Città della Scienza, has highlighted the great strategic work being put in place by “research centers, universities, schools. Futuro Remoto is the ideal stage to engage and encourage participation. Furthermore – continued – Campania Region has launched the RIS3 strategy, so in the square we will also be the place to present the strategic and industrial lines for the development of our territory. We have set up a particularly rich edition, with important numbers and a program focusing on strategic issues for growth: school, health, work, scientific and technological development, innovation and startup. ” “MIUR confirms its interest in this event that can create added value because it manages to create a network between all actors in the territory, starting with the school.” Luisa Franzese, Director of the Regional School Office for Campania, said

Word at universities

Cesare Pianese of the University of Salerno emphasized participation in the ateneum square. “We will bring – said – the activities of our campus in the square to make a physical connection with the participants”. Vincenzo Nigro from the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” highlighted the quality of a “beautiful program that highlights the networking of the various actors involved”. Lucio d’Alessandro, rector of the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples, emphasized the heritage as a set of goods that can be used for the social and economic growth of the territory. “We aim to develop the theme of connections starting from the deepening of the link between cultural heritage and citizens, also in the key to digitizing cultural goods.” Elda Morlicchio, rector of the University of Naples Orientale, highlighted how “the theme of connections for us remains central because we want to demonstrate how humanistic sciences can go hand in hand with new technologies”. Filippo De Rossi, rector of the University of Sannio, explained that “among the many missions, universities have also been to promote the propagation of culture so we consider strategic participation in a system action as Futuro Remoto.” “Futuro Remoto is a great showcase of all the main players involved in developing research. In this scenario, thanks to the activities and the laboratories, we bring the best of our research system to the streets, “explained Alberto Carotenuto, rector of the Parthenope University of Naples.

A meeting between culture and research

Governor De Luca’s adviser, Sebastiano Maffettone, pointed out that “culture and research can not be put on the one hand and the people on the other, it is time for people to meet and those who are working for Futuro Remoto”. In conclusion, Deputy mayor of Naples, Raffaele Del Giudice, stressed that “media people receive so much news and need tools to decode them. Futuro Remoto is an appointment that represents the strategic lines of the next generation.”

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31st Edition of Futuro remoto, the First Festival of Science of Italy

4 days business May 25th-28th

3rd consecutive year in Piazza Plebiscito, in the heart of Naples

9 domes

12 thematic islands

100 meetings with international guests, experts and researchers to discuss on topical issues

10,000 demonstrations and experiments

550 participating realities

2000 researchers to show what’s happening every day in their labs

60 companies to know the new frontiers and the new challenges of technological innovation

100 schools to transform the square into an exceptional didactic classroom

+250.000 participants are expected

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