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"Football for research" and not "kick the research," open letter to the Inter captain Javier Zanetti

Two years ago exactly I wrote to President Moratti Inter to ask him to make a small financial effort (compared to the salaries it pays its players) and fund the research of my laboratory for 3 years. The letter-appeal was also published by "Panorama" with the title "Dear Moratti I write" (see photo on blog), but unfortunately Moratti never replied, even with two lines of circumstances.

Saturday 6 and Sunday, November 7 all the teams in Serie A and B are on the field with a goal for the research initiative, sponsored by the AIRC. Some players like Javier Zanetti, Inter captain, will support the initiative. For this reason, a good Inter fan, I decided to write a Javier Zanetti on this blog and publish the text of the letter. The aim is to raise awareness of the healthy part of the football world than basic research in Italy has always been mistreated, "Cinderella" and suffers from the cuts the government and ignored by private foundations as AIRC and Telethon.


Dear Captain,

I am a professor of genetics at La Sapienza University of Rome, always Nerazzurri fans. Today and tomorrow the world of football will support the AIRC for cancer research and you're one of the main testimonal. This is an excellent initiative, but let me write to point out that in Italy, oltre alla ricerca applicata, sostenuta da fondazioni private, esiste anche la ricerca pubblica di base che ormai sta morendo per mancanza di fondi.

AIRC e TELETHON finanziano esclusivamente la ricerca applicata in campo biomedico , che ha come obiettivo primario l’utilizzo delle conoscenze per fini pratici (ad esempio, la cura di malattie genetiche e tumori). La ricerca di base , anche detta pura, ha invece come scopo l'avanzamento della conoscenza e la delucidazione di determinati fenomeni fisici, chimici, biologici. La ricerca di base produce idee , cultura, prodotti immateriali ed è un'attività fondamentale perchè rappresenta the real engine of scientific progress and technological : without basic research and applied research would not exist.

Unfortunately in Italy the basic research has always been ignored by politicians: just talk and pretty words, but few concrete actions. In recent years, moreover, the ministerial funds (already scarce), intended for university research projects, are now dramatically insufficient. Because of this, we university researchers are working in increasingly precarious conditions and difficult and many young people are fleeing abroad for lack of prospects. The situation is similar for public research institutions such as CNR.

Two years ago I launched the slogan " football for research" and not "kick the research , sending an appeal to the President Moratti that, unfortunately, to my great regret, he never responded. Now I turn to you and to the healthy part of football, to ask a real help to promote basic research and the many valid Italian researchers in universities and public research institutions at risk of having to abandon their studies for lack of financial and human resources.


I greet you with great respect and I wish you another year full of success!

Patrizio Dimitri

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Another beautiful thought of Tremonti & co: cut the foreign missions of researchers

Hear, hear! The new Financial requires the government to halve the costs for overseas missions of the employees. Reading the art. DL No 06/12 31 May 2010 78, it seems that the university is affected by this measure. I hope I'm wrong, maybe this will be the umpteenth gaffe Tremonti and the Berlusconi government, but the risk is big.
If true, it would enable more posts to the mobility of researchers and teachers abroad, an activity that stimulates the growth of youth, development and dissemination of knowledge. We will hit bottom? Or even worse lies ahead?


Article 6. 12.
From the year 2011, the government included in the consolidated income statement
della pubblica amministrazione, come individuate dall'Istituto nazionale di
statistica (ISTAT) ai sensi del comma 3 dell'articolo 1 della legge 31 dicembre 2009, n.
196, incluse le autorità indipendenti, non possono effettuare spese per missioni, anche
all'estero, con esclusione delle missioni internazioni di pace, delle missioni delle forze di
polizia e dei vigili del fuoco, del personale di magistratura, nonché di quelle strettamente
connesse ad accordi internazionali ovvero indispensabili per assicurare la partecipazione
a riunioni presso enti e organismi internazionali o comunitari, nonché con investitori
istituzionali necessari alla gestione del debito pubblico, per un ammontare superiore
to 50 percent of the expenditure incurred in 2009. The acts and contracts in place
in violation of the provision contained in the first sentence of this paragraph
constitute a disciplinary offense and determine responsibility for state representative.
spending limit established by this paragraph may be exceeded in exceptional cases, after the adoption of a reasoned
measure adopted by the Summit of the administration by
give prior notice to the supervisory and auditing bodies of the institution.
This subparagraph shall not apply to the expenditure for carrying out inspection tasks
. From the date of entry into force of this decree, the per diem for
missions abroad in art. 28 of Decree-Law 4 July 2006, No 223
converted into law August 4, 2006, No 248, no longer due, the said provision does not apply to
internal mission of peace. By decree of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
concert with the Ministry of Economy and Finance are certain measures and limits
concerning reimbursement of expenses for board and lodging for the personnel sent abroad. A
from the date of entry into force of this Decree, Articles 15 of Law 18 December 1973
No 836 and 8 of the Law of 26 July 1978, n.417 and
implementation of its provisions do not apply to staff contracted under Legislative Decree no. 165, 2001 and shall cease to have effect
any similar provisions in collective agreements.
13.