The Einstein Telescope, the revolutionary gravitational wave detector that Italy has applied to host in Sardinia, is one of the symbols of the prospects and of the "new impetus" of the prospects of Italian research.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this during the event in Rome, "Science at the center of the State" , organized by the Italian Scientists Association.
The new impetus that ET and other projects can give to Italy will be possible, the Prime Minister underlined, "only if science and politics return to that balance that was the basis of our civilization".
«The ambition of knowledge, but also the questions about the use of power that can derive from that knowledge, the anguish of that responsibility brings with it: these are problems that the scientist cannot and must not face alone, but with someone has the responsibility for choices, politics", added Meloni,
The meeting was also attended by the ministers of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini , and of Health, Orazio Schillaci , with the popularizer Alberto Angela . On the occasion , the "Science Manifesto" drawn up by the ISA was also presented , delivered to the Prime Minister herself and the two ministers.
From innovation to values, passing through the circular economy, health and shared development, in six points the "Science Manifesto" touches on leading elements of research, such as sustainable energy, the priority of digital literacy and of space activities, the challenge of artificial intelligence.
The objectives are «to support the centrality of science and the scientific method», said the president of Isa Antonio Felice Uricchio , and at the same time start a debate that leads to the «creation of thematic tables» and the «establishment of a Scientific Office and technological that provides support to the Presidency of the Council in some strategic areas".
For the Prime Minister, it is "an extremely precious document, it contains many fundamental ideas for the work that politics must do" and the government - she concluded - intends to treasure this document".
