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07 August 2020 Guarantee and widen the right to study. This is the objective of the Minister of University and Research Gaetano Manfredi interviewed in the transmission of Rai3 Agorà estate. "We have a very reduced right to study - explains the minister - compared to what happens in France or Germany". "In addition to the reduction in fees we have already done, more than half of the students will not pay them or will do so in a reduced way however, we need a system of scholarships to make students autonomous. In Italy today - Manfredi recalls - only 10% of students take a scholarship, in Germany 40% ". "This is the goal we have, to widen the range of support for the university because it is a way to make young people more independent, and above all to reduce social differences. We still have today - underlined the minister - a university to which we do not children who come from low-income families enter. "Recovery fund funds
On the use of the Recovery Fund "I believe that about ten billion must be invested in University and Research". "University and research - underlines the minister - are the key instrument for the change of a country and on this we must make a targeted medium and long-term investment that has a strong impact on society and the economy. But on this I am confident, there are important projects. "
"400 mln call for more modern and digital building"
Minister of the university Manfredi announcing a call for 400 million euros to have a more modern and digital building underlines "We must invest in the right to study, infrastructure and we need to investing in Research because there is a great technological transition: I think of digital and green transition, I think of our companies that must change. "" We must have a more international university and today we must change, we must modernize, among other things, overcome the gender gap in scientific subjects "
Competition between universities
" I think there is a great commitment by universities through bonuses and economic facilities, not to lose students for the next academic year ", remembering that the" government has allocated significant sums for this and to avoid this which happened after the 2008 crisis: a major loss of university students in our country ". And on the risk of creating f footsteps of unfair competition between universities that offer advantageous offers on the economic front, Manfredi replies dryly: "I think this should not happen: today the attraction is made on an improvement of the offer, there are national rules on the reduction of the offer and then there are the packages region by region and according to the areas whether humanistic or not "
The restart
" It starts again in the presence with a crowding of classrooms at 50% ". "This - explained the minister - will determine an organization model that will keep many students in the classroom and some also online, according to the needs and also at the request of the students". This is because, explained Manfredi, "there are foreign students who will have difficulty arriving in Italy due to the pandemic situation".
More graduates and more foreigners despite the pandemic
"In lockdown many more students followed the lessons online than those present in the classroom". Precisely in this health emergency, the minister reveals "we have had more graduates despite the pandemic". "Paradoxically, just during the lockdown, we had many more students who attended the lessons than those who were normally in the classroom, demonstrating that this" e-learning "method can be an integration and a piece of the future of the university" . Manfredi also reminds us that "
despite the pandemic we have many foreign members, indeed we have many more."
The Zaki case
"I am in constant contact with Foreign Minister Di Maio and we are following this story carefully. Pressure is being put on the government Egyptian because Zaki has a fair trial. " "Zaki is an Egyptian citizen - Manfredi said - but there is great attention from Italy because he is a community student, who was part of a study program not only Italian but of the European community, so there is a great commitment of all European countries to make this story end differently ". Manfredi stressed that "Giulio Regeni's experience has been very hard and difficult", and added that it "must guide us to better protect our researchers and all students who go abroad, especially in countries where it is still the problem of human rights is significant ".