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This year Elettra again took part in the initiatives promoted on the occasion of SHARPER - European Researchers' Night, on Friday 29 September 2023.
It is an initiative promoted by the European Commission that involves thousands of researchers, researchers and institutions in all European countries every year. In Trieste the Night is called SHARPER, after the name of the project funded by the European Union, and is organised by Immaginario Scientifico, in cooperation with the Education and Family Policies Department of the Municipality of Trieste and the scientific bodies of Trieste City of Knowledge.
Through various types of activities, games, performances, workshops, demonstrations and talks, researchers working in Trieste's institutes presented topics such as climate change, sustainable development, artificial intelligence, astronomy, sustainability, geophysics and medicine, health and sociology and science in a simple, concrete and interactive way.
Elettra participated with:
Simone Lemmers - MSCA research fellow at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, as part of the initiative 'An hour with the researcher', led a lesson in English in the Aula Magna of the Liceo Galilei. In front of over 80 students from the third classes, Simone spoke about 'The Secrets inside our skeletons. A story of resilience and adaptivity in an ever-changing world'.
An interactive lecture where students were taken on a journey to explore how the study of bones can help us understand the past, present and future, and how the cutting-edge techniques of the Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste particle accelerator can push us into new and unknown territories. An exciting experience from Neanderthal man to dinosaurs.
A visit for 100 people who, divided into 4 groups, were guided by the researchers themselves through FERMI's control room and Elettra's experimental hall. The groups stopped at a number of experimental stations where they were shown the techniques used to investigate matter based on spectroscopy, diffraction, absorption, scattering and imaging, and the fields of application ranging from electronics to environmental science, from pharmacology to diagnostics, and from engineering to nanotechnology.
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