(Adnkronos) - Quello della nuova Piazza della Scienza “è un progetto di rigenerazione urbana innovativa parte del Pnrr, che non ha previsto solo il rinverdimento della superficie ma anche l’applicazione di sensoristica dettagliata per la misurazione delle temperature della falda e, attraverso i satelliti, la misurazione dell’isola di calore. Un progetto che spazia dunque dalla geologia alla biologia, dalla chimica all’economia, perché gli effetti delle isole di calore e della cattiva qualità dell’aria hanno un impatto non solo sulla salute ma anche sull’economia. L’idea è quella di avere nelle università un punto di riferimento per la società”. Così Giovanna Iannantuoni, rettrice dell’università Milano Bicocca e presidente Crui, all’inaugurazione della rinnovata Piazza della Scienza, svoltasi nella stessa giornata dell’inaugurazione dell’anno accademico 2024-2025.
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00:00What do you think about the PNRR project?
00:04I really wanted, before the opening of the academic year,
00:07in Aula Magna, to inaugurate this square,
00:11because, first of all, it is a PNRR project,
00:14and we always talk about PNRR projects as late, useful, useless projects.
00:19Instead, as you can see, this is a fantastic project,
00:22because it is a modern, innovative urban regeneration.
00:26There is not only a greening, but as I was saying before,
00:29we have a very detailed sensor system,
00:33which goes from measuring the temperature in the fauld
00:37to measuring the heat island through satellites,
00:40so we will really understand why our city,
00:43when there is rain, unfortunately, more and more often torrential,
00:47then, as we know, causes a lot of damage.
00:50So, really, from geology, biology, chemistry, to economics,
00:55because, of course, the effects of heat islands,
00:58as well as, in short, the quality of having a bad air quality,
01:02unfortunately, are also measured in damage to health and economy.
01:05So, the idea is really to have, in universities,
01:09a point of reference for society.
01:11In these periods when there is a lot of talk about universities
01:14and also about the challenges that await the university of finance,
01:17of the future of Athens, what I say, also as an economist,
01:21is that if we really want to guarantee a future,
01:24as Semoglo would say, the Nobel Prize in Economics of this year,
01:27of prosperity, then institutions and universities
01:30have to work together to make a change,
01:33and the change derives from making economic growth sustainable
01:38and significant through the two engines
01:41that the university can really nest,
01:44which are the formation of human capital on the one hand
01:46and technological innovation on the other.
01:48And here there is everything, because if you see the dozens
01:50of young researchers, many PNRR,
01:53they are doctoral students, appointed researchers,
01:56really wonderful young guys,
01:58who with passion really considered this their laboratory.
02:02This is something really epochal in my opinion,
02:04also, and let me speak with passion that distinguishes me,
02:08also for the fact that there is no research field,
02:11but we have studied urban regeneration
02:14really holistically, if you want,
02:16renaissance, all the subjects together.
02:18So my appeal, which I am sure will come,
02:21how to say, listened well,
02:24is to really invest in the Athens,
02:27invest in young people and also guarantee
02:29to the more than 12,000 young PNRR researchers
02:32a future not outside our country,
02:34but within our country.