Parma, 3 June 2024 – The RESEARCHERS@SCHOOL program is growingwhich for the second edition reconfirmed its success by doubling the number of participating schools in Parma and its province and significantly increasing the number of students who participated in workshops, scientific themed games, demonstrations and interactive seminars held in schools by 75 teachers, researchers, doctoral students and research fellows from the University of Parma.
The 2023-24 edition indeed involved 28 schools in Parma and the province, 187 classes And 4230 primary school students (little researchers) and first and second degree secondary schools (young researchers).
There were different disciplinary fields of the 24 proposed activities: from chemistry to biology, from pharmacy to medicine, and then mathematics, physics, engineering, geology, ecology, veterinary medicine, linguistics and literature.
RESEARCHERS@SCHOOL is part of the European Night of Researchers, organized by the University with the collaboration of Frascati Scienza (leader of the initiative at national level), and responds to a precise indication of the European Commission, which expressed the desire to reduce the distance between the world of research and educational institutions by introducing the new program dedicated to schools.
Thanks to this initiative dissemination activities are designed or reformulated to be carried out right at school.
Here is the list of activities carried out by the University of Parma in recent months in schools:
- AAA wanted… the genetic code and its mutations – Annamaria Buschini, Silvia Rossi (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- Capture the energy that circulates – Francesca Aureli (Department of Engineering and Architecture)
- Store and use clean energy thanks to magnetic materials – Francesca Casoli (Department of Engineering and Architecture)
- Crystals in the limelight – Alessia Bacchi, Dario Giovanardi (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- From the source… to the mouth – Alessia Ferrari (Department of Engineering and Architecture)
- Ecoanxiety, Terrafurie or Solastalgia? New emotions in the climate and ecological crisis – Niccolò Bertuzzi (Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Enterprises)
- Toast face – Susanna EspositoVanessa Sambati (Department of Medicine and Surgery)
- Let’s GENERATE health: understanding gender differences to develop personalized medicine – Giovanna Maria Pelà (Department of Medicine and Surgery)
- Are drugs sexist? Gender differences in response to therapies – Lorella Franzoni (Department of Medicine and Surgery)
- The jewels of mathematics – Alessandro Zaccagnini (Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences)
- The citizen in the treatment process. AI and FAD compared – Antonio Bonacaro (Department of Medicine and Surgery)
- The magic of chemistry – Laura Baldini (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- Wet areas: sink or source of greenhouse gases – Marco Bartoli (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- The goodness of the divine pig – Ferdinando Gazza (Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences)
- More sustainable fashion: reuse, recycle, repair, reduce. Small conscious history of Italian fashion through the CSAC archives – Margherita Zazzero (Communication Study Center and Archive – CSAC)
- Sustainable packaging from natural materials – Antonella Cavazza (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- Back to the Energy Future: Cyanobacteria, Enzymes and the Hydrogen Revolution – Gloria Spagnoli (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- Stories of love and transformations. Readings from Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Simone Gibertini (Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Enterprises)
- Tensioland! Playing with surface tension – Davide Orsi (Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences)
- A world made of minerals – Luciana Mantovani (Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences)
- Journey through the history of the Italian language – Donatella Martinelli, Sabina Ghirardi (Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Enterprises)
- Virtual scenarios and interactive games on infectious risk and emergency services – Frederick Monaco (Department of Medicine and Surgery)
- A dancing philosophy. Theoretical-practical exploration of Anna Halprin’s “transformational dance” – Rita Messori and Serena Massimo (Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Enterprises
- Jail scraps: food and dignity in prison – Stefano Magagnoli, Gaia Messori (Department of Economic and Business Sciences
These are the schools that have joined the program:
- Gianni Rodari Primary School
- Martyrs Primary School of Kefalonia
- School for Europe
- Busseto comprehensive institute – Busseto primary school
- Comprehensive institute of Busseto – Polesine Zibello Primary School
- Busseto comprehensive institute – Busseto lower secondary school
- Comprehensive institute of Busseto – Lower secondary school located in Polesine Zibello
- Maria Luigia Primary School
- Laura Sanvitale School
- Educational direction Fratelli Bandiera – Ulisse Corazza Primary School
- Malerba comprehensive institute – Fornovo complex
- Malerba comprehensive institute – Solignano complex
- Malerba comprehensive institute – Berceto complex
- Montebello comprehensive institute – Don Cavalli lower secondary school
- Montebello comprehensive institute – Bozzani primary school in Porporano
- Fabio Bocchialini State Agricultural Technical Institute
- Comprehensive institute of Montechiarugolo – Lower secondary school of Basilicagoiano
- Mario Lodi comprehensive institute
- Gian Domenico Romagnosi classical and linguistic high school
- Sant’Agostino High School in Salsomaggiore
- Felino comprehensive institute – F. Maestri lower secondary school
- Zappa-Fermi Higher Secondary Education Institute
- Giuseppe Verdi comprehensive institute of Corcagnano
- Guatelli comprehensive institute of Collecchio
- Bocchi comprehensive institute – P. Racagni primary school
- Bocchi comprehensive institute – Malpeli lower secondary school
- Bocchi comprehensive institute – N. Palli primary school
- Teaching direction Ilaria Alpi of Fidenza
For information on the project: Unit Relations with the Territory and Public Engagement University of Parma – Third Mission Area – [email protected]
