| We are currently working on the calendar of events for the 2025 Edition of Trieste Next. The official program will be available online on this website.
THE 14th EDITION: “Life Within. Conversations across Sciences and Technologies” . Since its first edition in 2012, Trieste Next has aimed at addressing key issues of the scientific and cultural debate: from food resources to water management, from energy to sustainability. The 2025 Edition will offer the chance to outline the scientific agenda for the coming years and propose far-reaching reflections on the new frontiers of research and innovation with a focus on sustainability. Trieste Next will thus be an opportunity to promote a fruitful dialogue between STEM disciplines, humanities and social sciences, with a calendar of over 100 events and the participation of over 300 speakers.
THEMATIC SESSIONS. Selected students for the Trieste Next International Academy will have unlimited access to three special sessions on robotics/artificial intelligence, medical sciences and biotechnologies, physics and quantum mechanics. Each session will kick off with a guided visit to a research centre of international renown and will be followed by a program of 5-6 seminars over the course of 3 days. Selected students are also required to attend a series of general lectures organized by the scientific commitee of the festival.
In the 14th edition of the Festival, the meetings will move along some thematic lines relating to the fields:
o of life sciences, with applications in the prevention of diabetes and in the research of advanced microscopy and nanoscience techniques; in the field of pharmaceutical formulation, but also in the relationship that will emerge between the life sciences sector itself and the new artificial intelligence);
o of robotics and AI, in the increasingly current debate between the impact and relative reliability of these systems, but also of the implications in the field of robots and their use in companies;
o of the relationship between ethics and science in the age-old debate between innovation and limits.
PAST INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS. Andrej Gejm, Nobel prize for Physics and professor of Physics at the University of Manchester; Edvard Moser, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry; Wieland Huttner, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, president of the Max Planck Society; Michael Irwin Jordan, professor of Data Science at Berkeley University, winner of the prize of the World Laureates Association Prize in computer science and mathematics; Karina Gibert Oliveras, director of Intelligence Data Science and Artificial Intelligence research center of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Edvard Moser, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry.
VISIT TO RESEARCH CENTERS: Trieste holds a unique position in Europe as one of the most research-intensive cities, hosting over 36 renowned research centers across a wide range of disciplines including physics, neuroscience, oceanography, and biotechnology.
As part of the Trieste Next Festival, students will have the opportunity to visit two of these prestigious centers, gaining firsthand exposure to cutting-edge scientific environments and meeting experts from internationally recognized institutions.
OPEN-AIR LABS IN THE “CITY OF KNOWLEDGE”. As in previous editions, for the entire duration of the Festival Piazza Unità d’Italia (the main square in Trieste), the heart of the city, will host the Trieste City of Knowledge village, a space dedicated to scientific dissemination with seminars, presentations and workshops. Visitors will thus be able to join over 150 activities and open-air labs curated by the whole network of science centres based in Trieste. The City of Knowledge is curated by the University of Trieste and includes research centres of world renown such as ESA-European Space Agency, AIRC Foundation for Cancer Research, Telethon Foundation, ICGEB-International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnologies, INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, INFN – National Institute of Nuclear Physics, OGS – National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, ICTP – Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
CALL FOR POSTER SESSION: PhD STUDENTS
We are glad to announce that the Trieste Next International Academy will include three poster sessions, one for each thematic section, dedicated to PhD students willing to present their personal research work.
Selected Academy participants, interested in presenting their research during the festival, must submit a summary of the proposal and motivation letter via mail at internationalrelations@italypost.it. The application will be evaluated by our committee based on the innovative contribution of the research work and the potential for creating interesting discussions among students.
The deadline for sending an abstract presenting the research project is 31 July. |
