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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Kinect is an interface based on a technology that senses human body movements. Unlike other videogame consoles it allows players to control the game via body movements or spoken commands, without the need to hold a game controller.

In the framework of the international week of open access, Sardegna Ricerche and Cagliari University organised on Thursday 25 October in Cagliari a conference entitled "The Hallmark of Scientificity".

On 25 July 2012, the Region of Sardinia, Sardegna Ricerche and the Management of the Belarus High-Tech Park signed an agreement.

iCoolhunt, the multiplatform social networking game created by Turin-born brothers Luca and Alessio Morena, relies on the concept of coolhunter and on the boundless potential offered by the web for capturing new fashion and trends just as they germinate.