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ISPRA at the Rome Science Festival

From 16 to 21 April 2024 the Rome Science Festival returns to the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone with its 19th edition.

Mistakes and wonders is the theme of this edition, dedicated to the wonder that accompanies every discovery, the engine that pushes scientists to explore, ask questions and question consolidated knowledge, always going further. Wondering, even in the face of crises and problems, is the first step in seeking new answers and solutions, on a path not without missteps, failures and denials, errors.

ISPRA is the scientific partner of the event and promotes a series of initiatives.

Program

16 - 21 april 15:00 - 21:00

Mostra "Relitti, rifiuti e biodiversità nelle profondità del Mediterraneo"

16 - 21 april  15:00 - 21:00

Mostra "Meravigliosa natura, umani errori"

19 april  18:30

Che tempo farà? Incertezze nelle previsioni metereologiche

20 - 21 april 8:45 e 9:15

Le attività di ISPRA e la Tenuta Presidenziale di Castelporziano
Evento gratuito con prenotazione obbligatoria

20 - 21 april 11:00 - 15:30

Laboratorio "Mostra "Meravigliosa natura, umani errori"

21 april ore 11:00

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Geological survey and CARG cartography - Summer School 2024

ISPRA, in collaboration and with the support of the Italian Geological Society, the Municipality of Erto and Casso, the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, organizes the 2024 summer school of "Geological survey and CARG cartography" at the Municipality of Erto e Casso, Friulian Dolomites Park from 16 to 22 June 2024.

World recycling day

March 18th is World Recycling Day, an initiative aimed at raising citizens' awareness of the importance of recycling and the conscious use of resources, promoting practices that reduce the use of energy, improve the quality of water and air which we breathe and combat climate change.

ISPRA has recently published the new environmental indicators database, in the "Circular Economy" section the indicators useful for monitoring the transition towards a circular economic model in which materials are used, recycled and reused as much as possible are collected.
Among the indicators present in the section, we highlight the rate of circular use of materials which in Italy, in the period 2004-2022, went from 5.8% to 18.7%, reaching above the European average of 11.5% (2022 ).

Visit to ISPRA by the Special Advisor of the French Secretariat for Ecological Planning Barbara Pompili

President Stefano Laporta met Barbara Pompili, former Minister of the Ecological Transition until 2022, now Special Advisor for international affairs of the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning and Special Envoy of President Macron for the Water Summit that France is organizing for the 23rd September in New York, on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly.

National project on the biology and conservation of skunks and weasels in Italy

MustelaWatch.it is the Italian portal dedicated to skunks and weasels designed and created by the Italian Mesocarnivore Research Group (GrIMeC) of the Italian Theriological Association (ATIt). It contains news on the species, insights, publications, as well as distribution maps updated in real time, with recent data and new acquisitions.

FAI spring days "ISPRA: protection of biodiversity at the garden estate of Ozzano dell'Emilia"

ISPRA of Ozzano dell'Emilia takes part in the FAI Spring Days which confirm, in their thirty-second edition, one of the most important events for learning about the Italian cultural and landscape heritage.

This year ISPRA opens the doors of an important headquarters, not only in terms of landscape heritage, but also from a scientific one. For visitors to the ISPRA estate in Ozzano nell'Emilia, an exclusive opportunity opens up to discover the organisation's research activities and projects.

International Day of Forests 2024

International Day of Forests is celebrated every 21 March and represents a fundamental moment to reflect on the importance of forests for our planet. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, the day aims to highlight the fundamental role that forests play not only in the supply of timber and non-timber products (berries, mushrooms, resins, etc.), but including in providing ecosystem services such as erosion control, biodiversity conservation, climate regulation and in providing livelihoods to hundreds of millions of people.
The theme of the 2024 Day is "Forests and Innovation" and places emphasis on the essential combination of forest conservation and technological progress.

Italy-China collaboration in research and innovation applied to marine sciences

During meetings that took place from 6 to 10 March in China, ISPRA, the University of Pisa and the A. Dohrn Zoological Station gave new impetus to their collaboration with the Zhejiang University of Oceanography (ZJOU ) supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

From the emergency to water efficiency

On the occasion of World Water Day, Confindustria is organizing the event "From the emergency to water efficiency".

It will be an opportunity for a discussion on the management of water resources, to analyze the challenges - current and future - to identify the opportunities, critical issues and adequate responses to ensure that everyone, citizens, agriculture and industry, has fair and sustainable access to water. waterfall. The topic will be addressed from multiple points of view, thanks to the qualified participation of numerous speakers from the business world, national and local institutions and the academic world.

PNRR WED. The restoration of one of the most threatened marine environments in Europe: flat oyster habitats

In the "breeding parks" 300,000 larvae have already been obtained, the objective is to reach 1 million to be allocated to breeding

ISPRA's activities have begun for the restoration of one of the most threatened marine environments in Europe: the habitats of the flat oyster (Ostrea edulis), a native Adriatic species, in five Italian regions: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Marche and Abruzzo. An activity in line with the requests of the European Strategy for Biodiversity and the objectives of the recently approved "Nature Restoration Law". The operations involve the introduction of adult reproductive individuals - both collected with sustainable fishing techniques and bred - and the placing on the seabed of substrates favorable to the taking root of new generations of oysters and the formation of the reef. To support the interventions, instruments for measuring environmental parameters will be installed which will complement the data collected through specific monitoring programs.

City Nature Challenge 2024 – Take part in reporting the flora and fauna around you!

The City Nature Challenge (CNC) returns from 26 to 29 April 2024, the international citizen science initiative which since 2016 has allowed citizens from all over the world to compete amicably with each other to report the greatest number of data on biodiversity

OFFICINE EUDOSSIANA - faults, borders, gaps, horizons - conversation on engineering in transition

The meeting is organized by the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University as part of the FIGI project (Faculty of Engineering and Large Enterprises).
The event is dedicated to the discussion on paradigm shifts, on new horizons, on discontinuities, which involve to varying degrees all the disciplines that fall within engineering and which question the teachers of these disciplines and the students who will become engineers.

The value of the landscape as a place of interaction of natural and anthropic factors

On March 14, on the occasion of National Landscape Day, SIGEA-APS in collaboration with the Order of Geologists of Lazio and the Order of Doctors of Agronomists and Forestry Doctors of the Province of Rome, with the patronage of the Italian Federation of Doctors in Agricultural Sciences and Forestry Sciences and CATAP, is organizing the study day "The value of the landscape as a place of interaction of natural and anthropic factors".

Day of study and celebration on the figure of Quintino Sella, mining engineer

The Order of Engineers of Biella, after 140 years after his death,  intends to celebrate his relevance in its vision of the precursor of one of the 4 industrial revolutions, the second where the search for raw materials was one of the engines for development. The relevance of the figure of Quintino Sella today is linked to his desire to have wanted the drafting of a geological map useful for the exploration of the main mineral resources useful in the period of the nineteenth-century industrial revolution.

Taking care of our common home

The Pontifical Lateran University, as part of the cycle of studies in Ecology and Environment, organizes the series of seminars "Taking care of our common home". The meetings will be held on March 21st "Why the need for a change of direction?", on April 16th "How to accompany and accelerate the transition towards an ethical-socio-economic paradigm based on integral sustainability?" and on May 14 "What proposals for action?".

From balconies to urban green: good practices for the management of invasive alien species

The aim of the conference is to illustrate the delicate topic of invasive alien species and suggest the most correct gardening and green design practices to limit their spread in the environment, encouraging the use of native species for the creation of more sustainable gardens.

The PNRR for National Parks and Marine Protected Areas

Activities to strengthen technological instrumentation to improve knowledge on biodiversity are underway

National Parks and Marine Protected Areas have consistently carried out important monitoring work for years which today allows the entire scientific community to have a significant knowledge base on biodiversity. However, monitoring activities, in particular those on species and habitats, present heterogeneous characteristics and do not allow the availability of uniform and integrated information in the medium-long term for the entire system of protected areas.

Motorship Rubymar: ISPRA expert supporting the Yemeni authorities to deal with the environmental emergency

Luigi Alcaro of ISPRA has been selected by the Emergency Response Coordination Center of the European Commission, among the various candidates at an international level, to support the Yemeni authorities in dealing with the environmental emergency arising from the sinking of the motor ship Rubymar and consequently of its cargo polluting following the Houthi terrorist attack on 18 February. The ISPRA expert is called to evaluate the risk of damage to marine ecosystems deriving from the potential release into the sea of ​​the on-board fuel and fertilizer load (approximately 28,000 tonnes) and to formulate hypotheses for interventions on the wreck to mitigate the consequences of the polluting release .

Refining tools for cetacean conservation

Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) is a powerful tool employed by researchers to pinpoint critical areas essential for species survival. This tool holds particular significance when studying and conserving species like cetaceans, whose large-scale movements in the vaste marine environment pose challenges for continuous monitoring across its entire extention.

Scientific-technological research and advanced training applied to marine sciences

On 7 and 8 March at the Zhejiang Ocean University (ZJOU), in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to China Dr. Massimo Ambrosetti, the II Italy-China bilateral workshop on "Scientific-technological research and higher education" will take place. applied to marine sciences", organized by the Italian Embassy in China and the ZJOU.

Representatives of ISPRA, the University of Pisa and the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station will also be present at the workshop.

Alternative Sources and Climate Change

Renewables, Hydrogen, Nuclear: New Energy

Decarbonisation, investment plan on alternative sources. The importance of renewables and the analysis of alternative plans to fossil fuels, with a view to reducing emissions. How the European directives move and what positions Italy takes in the global panorama.

Protected areas: virtuous experiences to combat the decline of pollinators

The Life 4 Pollinators project is organizing a meeting that brings together the world of conservation, research and institutions, united to protect the decline of pollinators.

"Virtuous experiences to combat the decline of pollinators" is an event organized in collaboration with Federparchi, LIFE PollinAction, Life BEEadapt which aims to give those who manage protected areas the opportunity to discuss and find shared strategies for the conservation of pollinating insects .

Adapt the city to heat waves and rising temperatures

On March 13th there will be the third appointment of the public consultation of the Climate Adaptation Strategy of Rome Capital.

There are four priority critical issues to address: the greater intensity of rainfall and floods; the security of water supplies in scenarios where there are greater periods of drought; the growth of heat waves in a city with neighborhoods at risk due to the so-called 'island effect' of urban heat and the intensification of impacts on the coasts in a scenario of rising sea levels.

Hydraulic risk mitigation in the regions affected by the flood in 2023

An agreement signed between ISPRA and the Extraordinary Commissioner for reconstruction in the territory of the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Marche Regions

Today, in the headquarters of the Joint Defense Summit Operational Command, Army Corps General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, Extraordinary Government Commissioner for reconstruction in the territory of the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Marche regions and the Director General of ISPRA, Maria Siclari, have signed a technical-scientific collaboration and support agreement for the activities related to the drafting and verification of the special plans for reconstruction.

The Agreement, which will last until 30 June 2024, includes developing forms of collaboration aimed at greater mitigation of the hydraulic risk in the flooded areas, through more careful and respectful management of the pit fauna - which includes all the animal species that burrow into the land, even along the banks of rivers, to build their own den - and of the local flora, in particular of the riparian and slope vegetation, which grows along the banks of the watercourses and in the beds of streams and streams.

The objective of the agreement is to provide technical-scientific support to the commissioner structure within the interministerial and interinstitutional working group in which various representatives of the territory participate, including the technicians of ISPRA itself.

Plastic and circular economy

The seminar, addressed to the local administrators of Villasimius, is dedicated to the topics of plastics, circular economy and the impacts that they can produce on the territory and sea.

It will be also presented the project LIFE CONCEPTU MARIS, which AMP Capo Carbonare is partner and aims to conservation of cetaceans and sea turtles in the Mediterranean.

On-line the new environmental indicators data base ISPRA

An effective tool to understand the state of the environment in Italy
Developed with a view to improvement, to face increasingly pressing environmental challenges and to satisfy new knowledge needs, including future scenarios, the ISPRA environmental indicators database disseminates detailed statistical information in a dynamic and timely manner characterized by a high scientific solidity.

Science for Policy - the scientific evidence to support policies for the digital and ecological transition

The President of ISPRA, Stefano Laporta, participated today in the seminar "Science for Policy - scientific evidence in support of policies for the digital and ecological transition", organized by the JRC with the support of the Representation in Italy of the European Commission and the European Parliament Liaison Office in Rome. The meeting was aimed at discussing how scientific knowledge and expertise can contribute to the decision-making process, particularly in the field of Artificial Intelligence and resource sustainability.

Female engineering

On 8 March 2024, on the occasion of International Women's Rights Day, the FEMALE ENGINEERING seminar organized as part of the Figi Project - Faculty of Engineering and Large Businesses will be held.
During the event will be discussed the role of women in Engineering, the barriers that still need to be overcome, and the numerous opportunities to be discovered and seized, through the story of their experience, their work, and what motivated them their choices.

Which beaches Caretta Caretta choose for nesting? ISPRA sampling campaigns are in progress

In the frame of EU LIFETURTLENEST Project ISPRA beach sediment sampling campaigns on some breeding sites of the past seasons are in progress. The composition of the beach has an impact on the breeding success of Caretta Caretta marine turtles. Since last November two monitoring campaigns have been completed, namely in Tuscany Region and Lazio Region while in Campania Region are still ongoing, the campaign occurs on a monthly basis.

World Seagrass Day

World Seagrass Day is celebrated on March 1st, vital for the maintenance of marine ecosystems.
ISPRA celebrates this anniversary with 3 videos aimed at students, dedicated to Posidonia oceanica, its enormous ecological value, the importance of sustainable management and conscious use of coastal areas.