The GECA Master Program at Sant’Anna School prepares students to design and implement environmental sustainability policies, programs and projects. Candidates are requested to submit their applications by Tuesday, November 12, 2019.

Accomplished sustainability researchers and professionals have been teaching students from different backgrounds for careers as sustainability leaders for more than 20 years. The Sant’Anna School GECA Master Program, established in 2007, as the first program being started in Italy for waste management and recycling, is now intended for students interested in circular economy models, including both renewable and conventional energy. The program provides a rigorous and interdisciplinary understanding of energy management from the United Nations Agenda 2030 perspective: intercultural understanding, tolerance, mutual respect, and an ethic of global citizenship and shared responsibility. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the European Commission implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan dated March 2019 commit signatories to create and implement effective solutions, and collaborate with diverse stakeholders across the water, energy, and resource management.

Students graduating from this program may pursue careers in energy policy and management in the private or public sector, sustainability-focused NGOs, and international agencies. A range of scholarships is being offered to students to increase their chances of studying at a top-ranked higher education institution in Italy. These scholarships are awarded by INPS and other organizations to fund research and studies at national and regional level.

L’Istituto di Scienze della Vita della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa partecipa alla celebrazione dei 70 anni (1949-2019) delle relazioni diplomatiche tra Italia ed Israele “Side-By-Side” per l’innovazione scientifica, in programma martedì 5 ottobre alla Farnesina, a Roma. La ricercatrice in Agronomia e Coltivazioni Erbacee Elisa Pellegrino è stata invitata a tenere un intervento per presentare i risultati del progetto bilaterale Italia-Israele “Rimozione dei farmaceutici dalle acque reflue trattate nel bacino del Mediterraneo” - PharmSwapMed (Removal of Pharmaceuticals from treated wastewaters in Mediterranean Bacin). Il progetto, finanziato dal Ministero degli Esteri e coordinato dal ricercatore in Agronomia e Coltivazioni Erbacee dell’Istituto di Scienze della Vita della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Rudy Rossetto, è stato selezionato insieme ad un altro progetto come esempio di eccellenza nella sessione Energy and Environment.

La cerimonia di martedì 5 novembre alla Farnesina si apre alle ore 10.00 presso la sala “Aldo Moro”, con un intervento dell’onorevole Emanuela Del Re e dell’onorevole Lucia Azzolina, seguito dalla relazione di Vincenzo De Luca, direttore generale Promozione e Innovazione Culturale ed Economica e dall’ambasciatore israeliano a Roma H.E. Dror Eydar. A seguire, Caterina La Porta, docente all’Università di Milano e Eytan Domany, docente al Weizmann Institute of Science tengono la lectio magistralis dedicata a “Big data and tumors”. La giornata, che si articola in tre sessioni (Energy and Environment, Space Science e Industrial Track & Joint Lab success stories) in programma fino alle 13.00, prevede una sessione finale sulle future prospettive della collaborazione tra Italia e Israele.

Last autumn, the immersive installation and augmented reality journey “San Rossore 1938” through the “Suspended Lives of Jews in Pisa University in 1938”, took place at the Sant’Anna School. On November 13, 2019, the book launch to mark the Pisa “San Rossore 1938” events will take place in Sant’Anna School aula magna at 2.45 pm. The book is edited by Michele Emdin, Barbara Henry and Ilaria Pavan.

The 2019 VR immersive installation through the “Suspended Lives”, is curated by Gianni Lucchesi, Chiara Evangelista, Ursula Ferrara, Massimo Bergamasco, Michele Emdin, and Camilla Tanca.

On 5 September 1938, the Italian government and King Victor Emmanuel III established anti-Jewish laws for the “Defence of the Race”. The shame of antisemitism became an officially sanctioned state ideology and complicit Pisa University expelled twenty Jewish professors and over two hundred students.

On October 18, 2018, an effort to refocus attention on the 80th anniversary of the racial laws has included exhibits, lectures, screenings and various events for the public and for students at Sant’Anna School. As the first decree, implementing Italian Racial Laws was signed in Pisa, academics and students feel obligated to share their experience and tackle antisemitism.

The 2019 book launch and the “Suspended Lives” VR exhibition supported by Sant’Anna School are the focus of an awareness-raising campaign highlighting the responsibility for discrimination, challenging state racisms and racial violence. The gathering intends to encourage understanding among student community and society ensuring that free and open discussion can take place in an atmosphere of tolerance for different viewpoints.

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