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January 22, 2021 "The ministry is available. If there is a request from the Rectors' Conference to make an extension" of the academic year, "it will be taken into the attention of the ministry. So we will act accordingly. I believe it is a decision of the next days so that we can then proceed ", said the Minister of University and Research, Gaetano Manfredi, who spoke in streaming with the University of Bologna. 



The challenge of technology


"One of the great challenges we face is that of digital technologies which are also at the center of the Next Generation Eu. In this plan, the theme of new technologies, from artificial intelligence to big data are at the center of the research mission", he said. said the minister.

"We are well aware that this is the terrain on which we compare ourselves with our European partners and on this Europe is confronted with major global competitors such as the United States and Asia. Italy in this challenge - explains the minister - must be protagonist. I am confident. We know well that we


we have all the credentials to be protagonists.

We have to overcome two great limits of our country ". The first is" individualism ". For the minister" we must be able to network, to be together, to work as a great national team. "The second is" planning "thinking that it is necessary "a certain planning and with rules that are constant over time", concluded Manfredi.  



The return to Italy of the philosopher Luciano Floridi


The intervention by Minister Manfredi took place at the presentation of Luciano Floridi as new teacher of the Alma Mater of Bologna, which now enlists another intellectual of international level from its ranks. The official presentation took place via videoconference in the presence of the rector Francesco Ubertini and Professor Floridi.



Luciano Floridi is one of the great Italian 'brains' who for years has held the his work mostly abroad. Professor at Oxford, is one of the leading experts in philosophy and ethics of communication and author of several books on the subject. 



Inside the Alma Mat

er, will be incardinated as professor of sociology of culture and communication.

Born in 1964, naturalized British, Floridi held the position of full professor of information philosophy and ethics at the Internet Institute of the University of Oxford, where he is director of the Digital Ethics Lab. Graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a research doctorate at the University of Warwick, in the past Floridi also taught as an associate professor at the University of Bari.