Two days packed with events, all about innovation. Nuoro will be a key player thanks to the "European Researchers' Night – Sharper 2025," co-organized by Sardegna Ricerche and featuring a packed, coordinated program. The capital of Barbagia will come alive on September 25th and 26th. The scientific community will engage with citizens, promoting the culture of research through accessible language, hands-on experiences, and opportunities for dialogue with the public.
All this is possible thanks to a well-established event, which sees Sardegna Ricerche as an active participant in the organization, along with the Municipality of Nuoro and the Europe Direct Center. On September 25th, workshops on health, wellness, and sports will begin, along with orientation and outreach sessions in schools, in collaboration with regional research institutions and universities, as well as a conference dedicated to gravitational waves and the Einstein Telescope project. The workshops in Nuoro schools will be organized by Sardegna Ricerche, in collaboration with the universities of Cagliari and Sassari and the regional research centers, Crs4, a single-member company controlled by Sardegna Ricerche, and the IMC Foundation, owned by Sardegna Ricerche and the CNR. Today at 10:30 a.m. in the Exmè conference room in Piazza Mameli, the event "Sport and Science in Schools – Conference on Health, Wellness, and Sports" (organized by Sardegna Ricerche, Biomedical Research Support Unit) will take place.
Next up are meetings in the "Researchers in the Classroom. Outreach and Guidance in High Schools" program, in collaboration with IMC, CRS4, and the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari. Among the various meetings, on Thursday morning, Marco Massa (CRS4) will present "From the Laboratory to Video Games: Inventing New Worlds" to students at the Ciusa Institute on Viale Costituzione. The presentation will explore the use of video game techniques to create virtual worlds for robots, museums, and travel. Fabrizio Murgia, also at the Ciusa Institute, will present "RIALE-EU: A Bridge Between School and Research." The RIALE educational platform allows teachers and students from Sardinian and European middle and high schools to connect remotely with researchers and their experiments conducted in technical and scientific laboratories at universities, research institutions, and schools across Europe. Also today, Jessica Milia will meet with students from the Asproni High School and talk about "DNA and next-generation sequencing: 48 hours as a researcher in the CRS4 genomics laboratory."
