The Italian ambassador to Madrid, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi, carried out a mission to Barcelona on Tuesday 11 March, accompanied by the consul general, Emanuele Manzitti, the embassy's first councillor for political affairs, Marco Lapadura, the consul, Mattia Lupini, the scientific attaché at the embassy, Prof. Sergio Scopetta, and the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, Annamaria Di Giorgio.
During the mission, Ambassador Buccino Grimaldi met with the rectors of the University of Barcelona (UB), Joan Guàrdia Olmos, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Javier Lafuente. All the interlocutors emphasised with the ambassador the very close collaboration between the two Catalan universities and the major Italian universities, as well as the qualified and large presence of Italian lecturers and students in Barcelona, more than 5% of the total in the two universities, which once again testifies to the strong ties between Barcelona, Spain and our country.
The ambassador and the two rectors stressed the importance of working to identify new forms of collaboration to make the ties between the two countries even stronger in a sector of such fundamental importance as education.
The mission was also an opportunity to visit Sincrotrone Alba, accompanied by its director, Italian physicist Caterina Biscari. The Alba Synchrotron, inaugurated in 2013, is a particle accelerator that enables research activities dedicated to studying the behaviour of the smallest parts of matter with a variety of applications in multiple fields, from industry to medicine.
Director Biscari emphasised how Sincrotrone Alba has very strong collaborative links with various research centres in Italy and how numerous researchers of Italian nationality work there. Furthermore, several Italian technology companies have contributed to the construction of the advanced instruments that make up the entire infrastructure, helping the many researchers employed at the Sincrotrone in their daily experiments with increasingly fast and precise instrumentation.
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