«The senate of the University believes not participation in the announcement of the Ministry of Affairs appropriate

Foreign (Maeci), given the continuation of the war situation in Gaza ».

The University of Turin is the first at the Italian level to suspend the collaboration with Israeli academic realities . Partial victory for the student collectives who They first blocked the senators' meeting and then obtained a public assembly to discuss their boycott request for all agreements with Israeli universities. After a long discussion, the leaders of the University have decided to approve a document that in fact closes the doors to a single call , the one recently published by Maeci who aims to finance joint research projects Between Italy and Israel In three application sectors: soil technologies, those for water (as a treatment of drinking, industrial waters and unloading or desalinization) and the precision perspective, electronics and quantum technologies.

To vote on the stop to the Maeci ban for the collection of joint projects for the year 2024 It was almost all the United Senators . Two abstentions and one "no", expressed by Professor Susanna Terracini . The director of the Department of Mathematics explains: «I would have no problems approving A request for the ceasefire , because I am strongly disturbed for the massacre that is taking place in the Gaza strip. While, they are strongly contrary to academic boycottings , Because, being excluded possible war projects, collaborations I am a bearer element of understanding and peace ». Of different opinion The militants of the Palestine project, to change the course, of students Independent and other university left acronyms. The students they push to approve the appeal - launched by the Turin area Paola Rivetti , Today professor of Political Science in Dublin, and signed by 1,600 colleagues of our country (60 from the Turin University) - who asks the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani , to suspend the entire industrial cooperation agreement, Scientific and technological between Italy and Israel for «The risk of Dual use and the violation of international and humanitarian law ".

On this, the leaders of the University of Turin take time. Thus accepted the proposal of Francesco Ramella, director of the Department of Culture, Politics and Society , to limit the action to a document that in fact suspends the participation of Combined with the Maeci ban of this year . «To date, only three colleagues had expressed their interest in participate, all belonging to agraria, but then they renounced independently", Gianluca Cuniberti explains . The director of Story that, after underlining the united ability to dialogue Even on such divisive themes, he announces another initiative that he will do discuss: in a few months it will be launched The history course of the Gaza Strip hosting Sara Roy, the Harvard teacher.