NEW YORK (USA) (ITALPRESS) – “An important fact emerged from these two days: many of the excellences we have within the Federico II in the fields of research, technology transfer and teaching represent areas of great interest here in the United States. There is complementarity between the Federico universe of innovation and the new New York reality.” Giorgio Ventre, director of the Federico II Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, expresses great satisfaction at the end of the event organized in New York by the Neapolitan university, which this year celebrated eight hundred years since its founding. Recalling the speech of Greg Morrisett, rector of Cornell Tech, he reiterated that the time is ripe because “New York is no longer just finance, but an international hub of high-tech research and innovation. The platform of interaction that we have been able to activate in these two days at Cornell Tech must become a constant in our work. We want to use these spaces to provide new opportunities for startups and spin-offs from the Federico II to insert themselves in a world, the American one, that is more receptive at this time. “Expectations were kept, for an event that contemplated the participation of more than thirty speakers from the world of institutions, research and entrepreneurship. Among them were many former students whose international success testifies to the continued prestige of the Federico II.Among them was Elena Aprile, professor of physics at Columbia University, who stressed the importance of creating a more energetic international research environment that would allow Italian students to spend working periods in America during their training. The premises are there, also thanks to instruments such as the PNRR, Ventre continued, “that allow Italian universities, and in particular the Federico II, to create research infrastructures capable of placing them at the same level as the best American centers.” However, an important gap must be bridged. “The difference between Italy and the United States is not in talent or research infrastructure, which we are also investing in, but in the absence of a market for the innovation produced in Italy. This direct relationship we have established with American academia will help us to bring new ideas to Italy as well. “A goal also reiterated by Fabrizio Di Michele, consul general of Italy in New York: “These two days are not just a way to celebrate the important 800-year milestone, but an opportunity to look ahead, to the future. To do this, there is no better place than New York.” After recalling the many departments of excellence that the University boasts, the consul general stressed that among the most important challenges facing Italian academia is “connecting our talents, but also the world of research and innovation to the job market. On this we can learn a lot from the United States. “Energy, therefore, is not lacking, as Matteo Lorito, rector of the University of Naples Federico II, also stressed, sending us to look ahead, projecting to the next eight centuries of the prestigious university, the oldest secular and state university in the world.
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