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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
The University of Bologna hosts the celebrations for the document that sets forth the inalienable principles of freedom, knowledge, research, and teaching at an academic level, which will be signed this year for the first time in presence in its renewed version
The University will grant EUR 1,000 to 600 students enrolled in AY 2022/23 to provide further support to non-resident students returning to live in Bologna and in the Romagna Campuses
In the run-up to the night dedicated to research (30 September), two series of events are coming up that will make you reTHINK your knowledge: talks with professors and researchers, guided tours, and short trekking tours to discover local science, history, and technology
Philologists, historians of science and chemists from the University of Bologna have joined forces to revive ancient alchemical manuscripts and test the efficacy of recipes and procedures in the laboratory
A new study shows how Asteroseismology, that allows to estimate the mass and age of stars through the study of stellar oscillations, can play a crucial role in analysing individual stellar populations in globular clusters
In the new edition of this international ranking evaluating over 26 thousand universities, the University of Bologna once again sits in the top 1% and continues the steady improvement in its global ranking started in 2017. Since 2014, the University has improved its performance by climbing 21 positions
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 tooth belonged to a child of 11 or 12 years old and was found in one of the shelters of the Pradis Caves in the Friulian Pre-Alps. A multidisciplinary investigation led by scholars from the University of Bologna allowed to reconstruct the seasonal mobility strategies of human groups in the area during the Late Upper Palaeolithic
The University of Bologna confirms its first place in Italy and third among European countries in the newest edition of the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking, which tracks the impact of universities on the social fabric using the parameters of the UN 2030 Agenda
Six months after the last dose, hospitalization or death risks are 70% lower than for unvaccinated people. This was revealed by an investigation on the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines on the entire population of the Abruzzo Region for over a year
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
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
Rector Molari: “I receive the news about this further adjournment with disappointment, which I know is also shared by the whole University of Bologna. We were well aware that this was the most likely outcome. And yet we always wished to receive better news, as we can't wait to have our student back"
A report from the Universities of Bologna and Oxford will help protect society from unethical AI, with a world-first approach to support organisations to meet future EU regulations
This is the ambitious project launched in Bologna by Caritas Italiana, ICMC (International Catholic Migration Commission), Consorzio Communitas, the Share network and the University of Bologna in collaboration with WUSC, Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways and UNHCR