THE EAGLE – The ‘National Made in Italy Day’ at the Gssi – “To be successful you need to collaborate, coordinate and be inclusive. Today all scientific and technological challenges can be overcome with everyone’s contribution and the difference of individuals.” Marica Branchesi, professor of Astrophysics at the GSSI, said this during the lectio magistralis held yesterday morning during the National Day of Made in Italy, held at the Gran Sasso Science Institute. Branchesi, in front of around one hundred high school students in L’Aquila and numerous institutions, recounted the incredible scientific discoveries of the last ten years: gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy, the new Einstein Telescope project and observation from space with the Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna. «These are not discoveries and ideas born from a solitary genius, but thanks to the collaboration of thousands of scientists», said Professor Branchesi.
The day, organized by the Technical Mission Structure of the 2009 Earthquake with the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy and the collaboration of the GSSI, began with greetings from the councilor of the Municipality of L’Aquila Ersilia Lancia who highlighted how the creation of the The L’Aquilian higher education institute was among the foundations of the post-earthquake rebirth. «The GSSI, with its interdisciplinarity and innovative projects, was an important and successful investment that contributed to the re-flowering of the city in such a dramatic moment», underlined the vice-rector Nicola Guglielmi. Among the interventions, also that of the director of the National Laboratories of Gran Sasso Ezio Previtali who illustrated the numbers and activities of the most important underground laboratory in the world: 22 experiments in the three rooms approximately one hundred meters long, and among these there is also DarkSide20k for the research of dark matter, involving 1330 scientists, two thirds of whom are foreign. Roberto Aloisio, professor and director of the Physics Area at GSSI, explained about Nuses, the space mission for the development of new observation technologies from space. A theme, that of the space economy, explored in depth by Leonardo Mazzini, Chief Technology Officer for Thales Alenia Space who underlined the importance of creating a system.
Councilor Mario Fiorentino, coordinator of the Abruzzo 2009 Earthquake Structure, drew the conclusions of the day’s work. «Scientific and technological research is one of the assets of development policies within the reconstruction work of this territory and the Structure Sisma 2009 supported many of the activities organized in recent years by the GSSI – he told the audience – to the many young people present here today I want to highlight the excellence, creativity and ingenuity that distinguish the L’Aquila training and research ecosystem, which both of inspiration and involvement for the new generations and their future professions.”
