VI edition

FestivalScienza

SARCIDANO - TREXENTA - 21-23 NOVEMBER 2022

With patronage

ISILI
Club for Unesco Isili, via Satta 16
Operational headquarters: vico Umberto

Info and booking: associazionecpu.isili@gmail.com – 339 897 3434

SENORBÌ
IIS Einaudi, piazza del popolo, 1 Senorbì
Phone 070 0986668 – cais028001@istruzione.it

Info and booking:
Federica Ardau – 3496388364 – ardauf@gmail.com
Luca Calvani – 348 8768023 – calvani.dsf@gmail.com

Monday 21 November 2022

Senorbì

I.I.S. L. Einaudi

08:45 - 09:10 Inauguration

Greetings from the headteacher and a representative of the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association

09:10 - 09:30 The importance of science

By Luciano Colombo, Pro-rector for research at the University of Cagliari.

Target: Everyone

09:30 - 10:10 Discovering Mars

By Agnès Cousin and Paolo Pilleri of IRAP, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse (Francia).
The red planet as we've never seen it. Discussion on recent technologies that allow us to discover the red planet, learn from it and dream with it. The journey to discover Mars will start from his story, from the landers up to his teachings.

Target: Everyone

10:10 - 10:50 Materials science

By Claudio Melis, University of Cagliari.
The recent vicissitudes in the energy field, the study of new materials push Physics and material sciences to experimentation both in practice and through the aid of new information technologies. Materials science is then imagined, experimented with and pushed to extremes in computer simulation.

Target: last three years of high school

11:00 - 11:40 Sun energy

By Michele Saba, University of Cagliari.
The sun as a source of energy and sustenance. Discussion and dialogue on the latest technologies to exploit our star and warm up with it. Professor Saba will illustrate the latest frontiers in the field of materials and technological innovations that aim at exploiting the sun as a source of livelihood.

Target: last three years of high school

11:40 - 12:20 Life of a mine

By Alessandro Abis, environmental hiking guide
Mines have been part of the history of Sardinia for millennia. How to exploit them now in a sustainable way? Alessandro Abis, mining engineer will tell us how mines can still be a precious scientific and tourist resource today.

Target: Everyone

12:20 - 13:00 Flying saucers, UFOs and the search for intelligent life in the universe

By Gian Nicola Cabizza, AIF Sassari and ScienzaSocietàScienza
Since the end of the Second World War, sightings of flying saucers and UFOs began. Subsequently, interest in the search for life beyond the Earth has been growing, investing the world of science and research. Recently passed away Frank Drake, the father of the research of technological civilizations. The conference concludes by recalling the contribution on the subject of this scientist.

Target: Everyone

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Senorbì

I.I.S. L. Einaudi

09:10 - 9:50 Biomedical research: muscle pathologies

By Martina Scanu, University of Padova
She works on molecules known as "CFTR correctors", already used for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, and on their efficacy in sarcoglycanopathies. In his speech she will deal with the problems related to some muscle diseases and how the research of this specific molecule can in the future give answers to the many patients who suffer from those pathologies.

Target: last three years of high school

09:50 - 10:30 Markers for gastrointestinal tumors

By Patrizia Zavattari, University of Cagliari
She will talk about the importance of her discovery of a marker for digestive cancer, for which a patent application has been filed for the "assay" to be used in clinical trials. The work is the result of a project funded by the Sardinia Foundation and the Region, which was published by the British journal of cancer.

Target: last three years of high school

10:30 - 10:50 Media Reading: What if...

By the students of the secondary schools of Senorbì and Cagliari

Target: Everyone

11:15 - 11:35 "Mal d'Afrique" and medecine

By Giulia Calvani, doctor Ospedale Civile SS. Annunziata AOU - Sassari
Experiences and memories of a journey that marks. Africa through the eyes of those experiencing the emergency on the front lines. Photos, thoughts and emotions.

Target: Everyone

11:35 - 12:20 New frontiers of neuroscience: neurogenomics, biotechnology and neuromodulation

By Paolo Follesa, University of Cagliari
Brain is the latest and greatest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have ever discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interconnected through trillions of connections. The diseases that disrupt brain function are among the most painful and destructive we know: Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, alcoholism, epilepsy, and others. These diseases are the enemy; neuroscientists are frontline fighters. Their weapons are new ideas, tested by experimentation. The revolution in modern biology has provided science with a formidable armamentarium that today includes neurogenomics, neuromodulation, and biotechnology.

Target: Everyone

12:20 - 13:00 Scientific career: where to start and possible job opportunities

By Maria Paola Pisano, editor at the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Heidelberg office - Germany
What do you need to do to become a researcher? What does it mean in practice to obtain a PhD? What are the differences between basic and applied research? And between research in universities and in industry? Finally, what are the possible job opportunities in science?

Target: Everyone

Wednesday 23 November 2022

Senorbì

I.I.S. L. Einaudi

08:50 - 09:30 Art and artificial intelligence

By Massimo Lumini and Simone Lumini, Academia Terra
The theme of artificial intelligence will be addressed by bringing a series of practical examples of audiovisual installations on the interaction between man and machine.

Target: Everyone

09:30 - 10:00 Connecting materials, connecting cultures: scientific and legendary aspects of a millennial Mediterranean know-how in the construction field

By Antonello V. Greco, Istituto Martini of Cagliari
The systematic examination of the materials used in Roman construction techniques between ancient written sources and modern laboratory analyzes reveals sometimes surprising aspects that allow us to frame an authentically Mediterranean cultural dimension. But even in this area, when the rational approach was interrupted, the legendary component emerged.

Target: third, fourth and fifth grade students and teachers

10:00 - 10:30 Observing to understand the future

By Alessandro Riggio and Andrea Sanna, University of Cagliari
Universe and stars have always fascinated mankind. Since ancient times humanity has wondered about what the stars were and what mysteries are hidden in their light. The light is then used as a tool to collect information from the stars, understand their life and their history.

Target: Everyone

11:20 - 12:00 Mathematics and robotics

By Cristina Carrisi, University of Cagliari
Research and the new frontiers of robotics will be illustrated. This talk will present an automated robotic arm capable of managing the irrigation of a land with sensors, automatisms and intelligence in order to minimize waste and effort.

Target: last three years of high school

EXHIBITS

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Senorbì

Archaeological Museum Sa Domu Nosta
VIA SCALEDDA 1

09:00 - 13:00

A TOY...BUT WHAT IS IT MADE OF?
By Antonella Fontana, collector

THE UNIONE SARDA PLANETARIUM
By Manuel Floris, science popularizer – Unione Sarda Planetarium

PLATONIC SOLIDS WORKSHOP
By Maria Polo, University of Cagliari e Lucia Pilleri, I.I.S. Einaudi - Senorbì

MATH QUIZ
By Francesco Scano, I.I.S. Einaudi - Senorbì

Wednesday 23 November 2022

FOR A FISTFUL OF BOOKS
By Luca Calvani, I.I.S. Einaudi - Senorbì

WHEELCHAIR 2.0
By Andrea Aresu, I.I.S. Buonarroti - Guspini

Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 November 2022

EXHIBIT PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS
By Luca Calvani, I.I.S. Einaudi - Senorbì

TENSO-STRUCTURES WORKSHOP
By Luca Calvani, I.I.S. Einaudi - Senorbì
The game of balance: curious structures that support themselves without fixed points. High school students will show how it is possible to build particular solid structures with recycled material.

SOLAR SYSTEM LITTLE MODELS
By Franca Scintu, I.I.S. Einaudi – Senorbì

SOCIAL HEALTHCARE WORKSHOP
By Maria Emilia Muntoni, I.I.S. Einaudi – Senorbì
Communicate with objects: in this exhibition the students will show their self-produced works. Through the objects we create we express feelings, thoughts and emotions.

CHEMISTRY LABORATORY
By Franca Scintu, I.I.S. Einaudi – Senorbì

AGRICULTURAL LABORATORY
By Anna Bruna Podda, I.I.S. Einaudi – Senorbì
The products of the earth, the art of saponification and the extraction of dyes. The flavors of yesteryear. Get your hands dirty to reach nature and communicate with it.

With patronage

Monday 21 November 2022

Isili

Centro Sociale

09:00 Institutional greetings

09:30 Inaugural conference

Inaugural conference of the FestivalScienza and the UNESCO Week of Sustainability Education

UNESCO MaB program for the candidacy of a new Biosphere Reserve in Sardinia
Davide Marras, Club for UNESCO Isili President

Target: everyone

10:30 UNESCO Decade of Marine Sciences for Sustainable Development

Results of the activities carried out by the Club for UNESCO Cagliari
Stella Piro, President of the Club for UNESCO Cagliari

Target: everyone

11:30 The importance of ArchaeoAstronomy

Paolo Litarru, President of the Agorà Nuragica Association

Parco Asusa

18:30 - 20:30 The starry sky between science and myth

By Gian Nicola Cabizza, physicist and science communicator, University of Sassari.
With the aid of a powerful laser, the public will be guided through constellations, stars and planets, on their correlations with myths and cults, on the scientific aspects of greatest interest.

Target: everyone

11:40 - 12:20 Life of a mine

By Alessandro Abis, environmental hiking guide
Mines have been part of the history of Sardinia for millennia. How to exploit them now in a sustainable way? Alessandro Abis, mining engineer will tell us how mines can still be a precious scientific and tourist resource today.

Target: everyone

Tuesday 22 November 2022

In streaming (link on the Festival website)

09:30 - 11:30 Diabetes and technology

Maria Antonietta Fois, Medical Director at the Diabetes Department of the P.O. of Isili

Target: everyone

Isili

Centro sociale
CONFERENCE

16:30 Quantum evolution

Alberto Lori, author of Quantum evolution: How to get out of the traps of programmed thinking and be free to make your own choices, Edition W W Norton & Co Inc; American, 2021

Target: Students and young representatives of the Italian UNESCO Clubs connected online

Conference room Comunità Montana Sarcidano Barbagia of Seulo

ROUND TABLE IN STREAMING (link on the Festival website)

16:30 Use of technology and the importance of good communication, also to build a better relationship between different generations and cultures.

Speeches by representatives of FICLU, Municipalities, the Region of Sardinia, local and regional schools, University with the participation of university students.

Target: everyone

Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 November 2022

Isili

I.I.S. Zappa - Pitagora - Institute Aula Magna
CONFERENCE

09:00 - 12:00 Nanotechnology laboratory

Nanotechnologies at the service of Technology, what future?
By Plinio Innocenzi – Professor of Science and Technology of Materials University of Sassari

Target: upper secondary school

I.I.S. Zappa – Pitagora – Gym
CONFERENCE – WORKSHOP

09:00 - 12:00 Optimization and awareness of the real potential in using the new technologies available.

By Giangi Cappai - DJ International Producer – Sound Engineer and Musician Song Writer

Target: upper secondary school

Gym ITCG

09:00 - 12:00 Quantum physics and mechanics

Conference debate by Alberto Lori, author of Quantum evolution: How to get out of the traps of programmed thinking and be free to make your own choices Edition W W Norton & Co Inc; American, 2021

Target: upper secondary school

Monday 21, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 November 2022

Isili

Istituto Comprensivo Segni Geniali Atrium

09:00 - 12:30 Exhibition - workshop on chess

Target: everyone

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