{"id":138055,"date":"2025-06-03T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/06\/il-vice-ministro-cirielli-interviene-allapertura-del-170-consiglio-dellosservatorio-europeo-australe\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:55:14","slug":"il-vice-ministro-cirielli-interviene-allapertura-del-170-consiglio-dellosservatorio-europeo-australe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2025\/06\/il-vice-ministro-cirielli-interviene-allapertura-del-170-consiglio-dellosservatorio-europeo-australe\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Cirielli speaks at the opening of the 170th Council Meeting of the European Southern Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the continent\u2019s leading intergovernmental astronomy organisation and the most productive astronomical observatory in the world, held its 170<sup>th<\/sup> meeting today in Rome, at the headquarters of the Accademia dei Lincei. Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli attended the opening session on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister emphasised Italy\u2019s consistent and determined commitment to international scientific research, as well as the country\u2019s strong financial, scientific, and industrial support for this European astronomical observation organisation since its inception. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has always been dedicated to promoting scientific diplomacy around the world, firmly convinced that international cooperation in these sectors is not only essential to address some of the most pressing contemporary geopolitical challenges, but also to ensure innovation, growth, and competitiveness for our country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly is playing a leading role in these cutting-edge research efforts. This is demonstrated by the role we have been given in ESO\u2019s most important project: the E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope,\u201d said the Deputy Minister. Once completed, it will be the largest telescope in the world, the size of the Colosseum, and will focus on studying many of the major unresolved questions in astronomy, potentially revolutionising our perception of the Universe. \u201cMuch of this telescope will be \u2018speaking Italian\u2019, starting with project management, entrusted to Roberto Tamai, and including many of its components, which will largely be produced by our country\u2019s technical and industrial excellence,\u201d the Deputy Minister concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the continent\u2019s leading intergovernmental astronomy organisation and the most productive astronomical observatory in the world, held its 170th meeting today in Rome, at the headquarters of the Accademia dei Lincei. Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli attended the opening session on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,386],"class_list":["post-138055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-diplomazia-scientifica","tag-vice-ministro-edmondo-cirielli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138056,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138055\/revisions\/138056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}