In last decades an increasing
number of young top graduates from Italian Universities faced great difficulties
in continuing their academic careers in Italy. Bureaucracy, the lack of transparency
and of a real meritocracy, extremely poor funding and lack of market request
for highly trained post-graduates, force many of them to move towards other
countries, where they find better conditions and career opportunities. Some
of them are very successful and reach a high standing in their profession,
but all of them can fulfil their personal dream: to make research and to contribute
to generating culture, science, technology and wealth. Which Italy, in turn,
buys back with obvious economic detriment.
For the first time a book, edited by ADI, the Italian Ph.D. Association, collected their stories, in the form of nice short
autobiographical notes, which catch the reader's attention with their charge of
human, professional and scientific richness. The Nobel Laureate Burton Richter
and the science journalist Piero Angela wrote the book introduction. These
biographies, together with the context described by the data and considerations
of ADI, results in a deep criticism to the present Italian University and
Research system.
The debate that followed both in the academy and in
the political arena has gained increasing resonance, and was given resonance by
the media.
The editor
|
|
Cervelli in fuga –
Brains on the Run
Stories of Italian brains fled abroad
Foreword by Piero Angela Introduction by Burton
Richter (Nobel Laureate in Physics 1976) Edited by ADI - Associazione Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca Italiani Publisher Avverbi 180 pagg. - € 9.30 |
Editor: Augusto Palombini
Editorial Committee: Lucia Ballerini, Luca
Tancredi Barone, Marco Bianchetti, Fabio Monforti, Flaminia Saccà, Andrea
Sappia, Carmen Usai
The “Brains on the Run”: Lucia Ballerini, Paolo
Bernardini, Stefano Bertolo, Silvia Capelli, Luca Ferasin, Luciano Floridi,
Alessandra Frabetti, Guido Germano, Stefano Giovanardi, Riccardo Giovanelli,
Roberto Lionello, Massimo Mazzotti, Samuele Marcora, Sergio Mauro, Stefano
Mirti, Enrico Piazza, Giuseppe Pintucci, Cesare Poppi, Alessandro Raimondo,
Nicola Terrenato, Nicola Tirelli