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Happy birthday, Ulisse! Five hundred years of Professor Aldrovandi

A weekend full of events to celebrate the collector and researcher who founded one of the first botanical gardens in Italy. Talks, workshops, and visits will help us discover Bologna, as will new guided tours until November, to learn about the Aldrovandi collection in the Palazzo Poggi Museum, the Ulisse Room at the Academy of Sciences and the Aldrovandi Herbarium, at the Botanical Garden

A new microelectronic sensor for intelligent energy-consumption monitoring

Developed by the joint research laboratory of the University of Bologna and STMicroelectronics as part of the EU-funded PROGRESSUS project, this device is a Hall effect current sensor with a response time 20 times faster than devices currently on the market. It is expected to have important applications in the renewable energy and electric car sectors, for the safety of electrical systems and for simpler and less expensive energy-monitoring systems

The University of Bologna hosts two new projects funded by ERC Advanced Grants

A study on the Balkan Route will investigate the intricate workings of unofficial migration corridors, another study will foster the benefits of artificial intelligence and data analysis in the legislative and legal fields: the University of Bologna has been awarded two of the prestigious grants conferred by the European Research Council to support the most advanced scientific research

QS Rankings, the University of Bologna keeps improving: 25 subjects sit in the top 100 worldwide, with 6 of these in the top 50, and 18 are number one in Italy

In the new edition of this prestigious international ranking, the results of the University of Bologna improved compared to last year’s. Worldwide, the University of Bologna now has three more subjects among the top 100 and two more among the top 50, while at the national level it has five more in number one position. Moreover, the University reaches the top 100 worldwide in four faculty areas