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The latest news on the initiatives and activities implemented and promoted by Sardegna Ricerche, its partners and the Technology Park tenants felt to be of interest to international users. For a more complete list of news items, please visit the Italian version of this website.
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On Friday 11 October in Pula (CA), the "Startup System 2013" conference and pitching event hosted the 17 startup teams that participated in the second call of the Programme "Aid for innovative startups" promoted by Sardegna Ricerche.
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A study on the Sardinian population has shown that the islanders display most of the Y chromosome variants found in Europe and that the origins of Homo Sapiens are to be traced to about 200,000 years ago, 50,000 years earlier than stated in most previous studies.
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3D printing, digital fabrication, open source, internet of things, crowdfunding are the keywords of the makers'world. A world anyone can access, from kids building marshmallow-shooting cannons to university students who do programming using Arduino.
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Let's welcome the birth of InsulaR in Cagliari: a community of users and supporters of R, an open-source software for performing statistical analyses.
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With the financial support of Sardegna Ricerche, Porto Conte Ricerche is organising two summer schools in Alghero, at the local branch of the Technology Park.
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On 3 April last, the mentoring path following the first selection of the business ideas submitted to Sardegna Ricerche under the call "Aid for innovative startups" kicked off.
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The call is now open for submission of posters to be presented in the final session of the workshop "From Nanomedicine to Brain Imaging. New Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology" to be held in Pula (Cagliari - Italy) from 17 to 19 April 2013.
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Citizens' mobility and a sustainable approach to the problems of traffic take centre stage in the team effort behind GreenShare, an innovative car pooling platform which won the Start Cup Sardegna and was shortlisted for Italy's National Innovation Award.
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The small Ophrys fusca ortuabis, an endemic Sardinian orchid mostly widespread in the Sarcidano area, is the leading act stage in "Ortuabis", a short film by Vincenzo Rodi, winner of the first "International Botanical Short Film Festival", organised within Orticolario, the gardening trade show held in Cernobbio (Province of Como).
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At CRS4, a Sardinian multi-disciplinary research centre in the field of ICTs, a team of 3 researchers has developed a method to identify similarity indices among compounds which slashes the time and cost of research to develop new drugs and cosmetics.