(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 22 - "The profile of Italy as a protagonist in the world also passes through the large scientific infrastructures.
We are among the major global players, for those we host and for those in which we participate, with huge investments and human capital of the highest level.
Let us think, for example, of the European Southern Observatory, which is building the largest telescope in the world in Chile also thanks to Italian science and technology, thanks to the continuous impetus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". This was stated by the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, speaking at the XV Conference of Ambassadors to the Farnesina. "In the next few years - then announced Bernini - Italy can play a central role, first and foremost in the new large European research infrastructures.
Our priority strategic objective is to bring to Italy the future gravitational wave observatory envisaged by Europe, the
Einstein Telescope, for which we compete with the Netherlands.
It is a project of extraordinary importance - he added - which will be able to strengthen the leadership of our country, thanks to the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and all the players involved.
Eche will be able to give exceptional opportunities to the most suitable territory, the Lula mine in Sardinia".
"I want - Bernini also said - to thank Professor Giorgio Parisi sincerely, who accepted my proposal to chair the Committee that will support the Italian candidacy, which we will formally set up in the coming weeks.
The success of this candidacy, in the interest of the Italy, is also entrusted to you, who lead the articulations of our diplomatic network: some Embassies and the Representation in Brussels will be fundamental in the promotion and international involvement of the Italian candidacy".
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