ON THE QUANTUM AND DIPLOMACY IN ROME
On December 17th, Rome hosted the “Stati Generali delle Tecnologie Quantistiche,” a high-level meeting bringing together government institutions, academia, and industry leaders. The event marked the transition to the implementation phase of the Italian National Strategy for Quantum Technologies. Its primary goal was to strengthen Italy’s scientific and industrial ecosystem by merging top-tier expertise to […]
THE HOT ARTIC: Italian CASD tested a new wargame
The Italian Ministry of Defense, through the Italian Center for Higher Defense Studies (CASD), the university institute of the Ministry of Defense, has launched an original “hybrid matrix-game” involving 50 students from various military institutions. Set in the Arctic, the simulation challenged 11 national teams to compete for geopolitical influence over a simulated 12-year period. […]
UNFOLDING ESA SIMULATION AT UNIPD
Prof. Piero Messina; HEAD, Council & Subordinated Bodies Support Section DG’s Cabinet – European Space Agency Students exposed to the dynamic of space diplomacy On 4 and 5 December 2025, in the framework of the space diplomacy activities pursued by the Department, an exercise was organised at the University of Padua by Prof. David Burigana […]
2nd EUROPEAN SCIENCE DIPLOMACY CONFERENCE
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing geopolitical and scientific-technological landscape, science diplomacy is playing an ever more critical role in shaping Europe’s international engagement. Building on the expert report A European Framework for Science Diplomacy – Recommendations of the EU Science Diplomacy Working Groups released earlier this year, the two-day 2nd European Science Diplomacy Conference will […]
NYU SPACE TALKS – 2025
Inaugurated in the spring of 2021, NYU Space Talks is a lecture series convened by Alexander C. T. Geppert at NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and NYU Shanghai with the Department of History in New York City. Each semester, established and upcoming scholars present the latest research on the history and politics of […]
Le virtù antiche delle nuove energie
Roberto Battiston, professore ordinario di fisica sperimentale all’Università degli Studi di Trento, si occupa di fisica spaziale e astroparticellare e ha ricevuto numerosi premi tra cui lo Space Economy. Segnaliamo il suo intervento nell’area PIANETA 2030 del Corriere della Sera, intitolato: Le virtù antiche delle nuove energie: la transizione chiede misura, equità, responsabilità. Si tratta […]
THESEUS COLLOQIUM: David Burigana (UNIPD)
I Theseus Colloquia sono un ciclo di seminari sui temi della tecnologia, delle sue precondizioni e del suo impatto sociale, economico, politico e ambientale, promossi dal centro studi Theseus del Politecnico di Torino. Sono tenuti da esperti internazionali che lavorano su questioni fondamentali per le società contemporanee in un’era di trasformazioni tecnologiche. Il 25 Ottobre […]
