The Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon will resume its scientific conferences on Wednesday May 11 at the Institute\u2019s headquarters\u00a0\u00a0with a meeting entitled “Italy and Portugal at the Poles”.\u00a0The conference will be attended by Prof. Roberto Azzolini, coordinator of the Italian Polar Programme who will deliver a presentation on “Italian Science at the Poles: history, sites, reasons and challenges”. It will also be attended by Prof. Gon\u00e7alo Vieira, coordinator of the Portuguese Polar Programme,\u00a0who will give a lecture on “Coopera\u00e7\u00e3o luso-italiana nas Ci\u00eancias polares”.<\/p>\n
After earning his degree in Physics at Rome\u2019s University “La Sapienza”,\u00a0Roberto Azzolini became an executive technologist of the National Research Council where he was in charge of polar research activities for more than 20 years. He was president of the Polar Commission of the National Research Council\u00a0and a member of the National Scientific Commission for the Antarctica Programme from 1992 to 2009.\u00a0\u00a0He was a member of the European Polar Board and the International Arctic Science Committee until 2009.\u00a0Prof. Azzolini took part in many expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, he directed the Polar Research Network of the National Research Council\u2019s Polarnet and coordinated the development of an information system on European polar capabilities. From 2009 to 2012 he worked at the European Science Foundation within the framework of European projects and from 2012 to 2015 he was executive secretary of the European Polar Board based in Strasbourg.\u00a0\u00a0He is working on the realisation of European projects at the National Research Council\u2019s Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes. Gon\u00e7alo Vieira is an associate professor at the University of Lisbon\u2019s Institute of Geography and Regional Planning, and a senior researcher and member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Geographical Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon will resume its scientific conferences on Wednesday May 11 at the Institute\u2019s headquarters\u00a0\u00a0with a meeting entitled “Italy and Portugal at the Poles”.\u00a0The conference will be attended by Prof. Roberto Azzolini, coordinator of the Italian Polar Programme who will deliver a presentation on “Italian Science at the Poles: history, sites, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,35,9],"class_list":["post-53494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-diplomazia-scientifica","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53494","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}