Professor Antonio Carcaterra will lead the university for the six-year term from 2026 to 2032. Professor Antonio Carcaterra has been elected Rector of Sapienza University of Rome for the 2026–2032 term. A Full Professor of Applied Mechanics and currently Director of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMA), Carcaterra...

From the outside, it looks like nothing more than a large camping tent set up in the middle of the room. Step inside, however, and you are instantly transported into an immersive, 360-degree journey-suspended among remote galaxies, ancient constellations, or even the depths of the ocean. This is the magic...

As anticipation builds for InnovAzioni 2026, the Italian Innovation Festival promoted by Confindustria Abruzzo Medio Adriatico, a special episode of the television program EconoMia – Dialoghi sull’impresa will guide viewers through the core themes of this year’s edition. The broadcast will offer an exclusive preview of Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents,...

Gianluca Spallotta has been elected President of RetImpresa, Confindustria’s agency for business networks and aggregations, for the 2026–2030 four-year term. Elected unanimously by the General Assembly during its meeting on October 14, 2026, at the Confindustria headquarters in Rome, Spallotta succeeds Fabrizio Landi, who led the agency for the past six...

Within Italy’s ecological transition landscape, the ICESP (Italian Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform) has long served as the central hub for developing and scaling circular economy models. Designed to bring together top-tier expertise, institutions, businesses, and the research community into a single, authoritative voice in Europe, the platform has established itself...

PMI DAY is the National Day of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises promoted by Confindustria. Since 2010, it has opened the doors of Italian companies to students and teachers. Its goal is to bring younger generations closer to the world of business, its values, and its career opportunities through direct, hands-on...

The Florida Space Coast will host the upcoming Florida Space Summit 2026 on October 20–21 at the Center for Space Education within the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Organized by the Florida Space Research Consortium and the UF Astraeus Space Institute, the two-day event aims to build synergies between academic...

Things are moving fast around here! The deep-tech and startup scene in Emilia-Romagna is gearing up for a massive couple of months. Now that applications for the second cohort of Great-ER 2.0 have officially closed, and with the annual Almacube Community Reunion just around the corner, our network is buzzing....

A stage to showcase businesses, their ideas and, above all, their ability to build meaningful connections. That was the spirit of the third edition of ROCK, RetImpresa’s annual Open Collaboration event, which brought together business leaders, innovators and representatives from the worlds of entrepreneurship, communication and culture in Rome. Among...

The Joint lab project is based on a proposal of research activity to be jointly carried out by Italian and Foreign researchers who intend to share their skills as well as their research facilities to create a Joint Lab – a meeting place, both physical and virtual, having new, improved...