The CNR-ISMed is launching a "Call for Chapters" for the 2025 edition of Mediterranean Economies, "The Mediterranean between Economy and Geopolitics: Global Challenges and New Balances" edited by Salvatore Capasso and Giovanni Canitano. Deadline: December 30, 2024. Information on the call and deadlines in the attached "call for chapter".
Published on Lucy magazine's YouTube channel is a video lesson in which CNR-ISMed researcher Michele Colucci reconstructs the nexus between migration and labour in Italian history from 1945 to the present. Work and migration are themes that are constantly intertwined in the history of contemporary Italy.
Researchers from the Palermo branch of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMed) will participate in Divination EXPO 2024, an exhibition of Italian excellence in the sector organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty and Forestry in Syracuse from 21 to 29 September 2024, in the context of the G7-Agriculture and Fisheries. The programme includes a conference organised on 26 September (from 7 to 8.30 p.m.) in collaboration with the Sicilian Region’s Mediterranean Fisheries Department on climate change and relations with biological resources.
Applications are now open for the second edition of the "CNR Prize for Citizen Science: Guglielmo Marconi Library", the initiative that aims to enhance and support public engagement initiatives involving citizens and scientists in collaborative research activities. Applications are open until Monday 11 November to public or private research bodies (with registered offices in Italy) and non-profit organisations.
The book Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains in an era of Digital Transformation: Research Developments and Future Prospects,edited by Dr Pietro Evangelista, research director at CNR-ISMed, Prof Jukka Hallikas and Prof Mohamad Y. Jaber, is now available.
From 26 to 28 September 2024, the second national conference of the Italian Society of Environmental History will be held in Naples at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Federico II University (via Porta di Massa campus), entitled “Italian Environmental History from Ancient to Contemporary Times. Themes, sources and methods“, promoted and organised together with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council.
The new Catalogue 2024 has been published on the CNR-ISMed website, available in PDF format. The catalogue contains all up-to-date information about the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (ISMed) and it is is accompanied by data providing a detailed and concise picture of the current situation of ISMed, which is undergoing a phase of great growth and expansion, both in research and in collaboration with the main players in the social sciences and humanities.
In the Poster CNS15 session of #CNStatistica15, dedicated to Cooperation and statistical initiatives in partnership with Istat, presentation of the ongoing activities for the realisation of the new portal WeMed: an information framework for the enlarged Mediterranean countries. The work is part of an operational agreement between CNR-ISMed and Istat activated last June 2023, with the aim of carrying out study and research activities and projects on cross-cutting issues of mutual interest using interdisciplinary, geostatistical and econometric methodologies, scientific publications, events and seminars for the valorisation of the results.
The CNR ship “Gaia Blu” left Naples on Saturday 29 June for an oceanographic mission in the Mediterranean in which the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (CNR-ISMed) is participating. The overall objective, as part of the TUNSIC-BANSIC 2024 scientific expedition, is to collect data and information to monitor the presence and reproduction of two marine species that are very present in the Mediterranean and heavily exploited by man: bluefin tuna and anchovies.
Under the patronage of the Senate of the Republic, the award ceremony of the prestigious "Guido Dorso" International Prize, now in its 45th edition, will be held in Naples on Monday 8 July. For the new section dedicated to the Mediterranean area, the Prize will be awarded to Professor Salvatore Capasso, director since 2023 of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage (CNR-DSU).
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