Who said that Italy (Minister Gelmini, to be exact) has cut the funds for research?
There is a research institute in Genoa (Italian Institute of Technology-IIT) that deserves this and more. All the more so today that the competent Minister, Mrs mariastella Gelmini, role to the four winds all that is doing to restore the meritocracy in universities, the transparency of the competitions, the evaluation supplying of funding. This, continues
Marco Catteneo, Managing Director of the magazine
The Sciences, at the same time l'ineffabile Minister of Economy – close in the grip of the economic crisis for which does not find any better that remove the incentives for energy efficiency measures and reduce the tax credit for the industrial research – still tireless to finance without any control a foundation of private law for the search by himself established five years ago.
This point is good to quote a bit of contemporary history. Ran 2003, when the law 326 of 24 November, introduced Article 4 the Italian Institute of Technology. the MIT italian, was saying proud the Minister of Economy of the time, that is the same now. With a contribution of
50 million for the 2004, just the minimum to start the work, and then to
100 million for year from 2005 to 2014 (paragraph 10). EIB money, when already the Italian research sailed in waters very low and damn cloudy (then it's not true that there is not the money to finance research in Italy!).
The Board of Directors includes names noble Italian Finance, excellent scientists, collectors of armchairs that sit on the boards of means country, a former Chancellor as Rodolfo zich. l'iit is chaired by Vittorio crickets, which incidentally is the Director General of the Treasury. The Scientific Director is
Roberto Cingolani, of which I have already said. The Director-General is Simone Hungarian.
The information available in the network is known that l'iit is divided into four units: the Department of robotics, Cognitive Sciences and of the brain, that join 36 researchers, the Department of Neuroscience and neurotecnologie, with 23 researchers; The Department of research and development drugs, which has 11; and finally, and with 11 researchers, the facility of nano-biotechnologies. The researchers of the four facilities are coupled 68 doctoral students. Many foreigners – a white fly, for Italy which fails to attract researchers abroad even with the tagliola… – and all diamonds and with excellent curricula.
