Pisa cancels investment in research – Chronicle
Olivia Picchi It is incredible what happened during the discussion of the forecast budget of the Municipality of Pisa. The majority cancels the already meager chapter on technology transfer, universities and research. In the city of knowledge, of the Marconi station, where the first beep of the internet started, it would be surreal in itself. This becomes inexplicable in the era of PNRR, where all over the world there is talk of …
Olivia
Peaks
It is incredible what happened during the discussion of the forecast budget of the Municipality of Pisa. The majority cancels the already meager chapter on technology transfer, universities and research. In the city of knowledge, of the Marconi station, where the first beep of the internet started, it would be surreal in itself. This becomes unstable in the era of PNRR, where all over the world there is talk of the challenge of the digital and ecological change. We have an enormous competitive advantage in terms of history, culture, means and the facts prove it. Tuscany in the PNRR area will focus on Life Sciences. The PISA Biotech project, from the Scuola Normale, won, the second and third place are two Sant’Anna projects. The president of the Navacchio Technological Pole (which hosts many Pisan start-ups), Andrea Di Benedetto, has been appointed head of InnovUp (formerly Italy StartUp) for central Italy. All the cities do their utmost to attract light investments on their specificities: textiles in Prato, the feasibility study for transport in Livorno. Pisa is absent in all this. Our amendment which asked for funds for the feasibility study of the railway doubling for the Pisa-Florence connection was also rejected. And the absence of projects is accompanied by the choice to ignore the knowledge and research sector, universities and start-ups. We choose to throw away an enormous competitive advantage that it brings and that could lead to development and work. It goes without saying that all the amendments and agendas we presented on the subject have been rejected, also to reconcile work life and family services, a qualifying element for attracting talents from outside. With this choice, the majority demonstrates myopia, a provincial vision where one deals (rightly) with things but makes a suicidal choice that will lead Pisa to find itself behind a reality that has fewer talents and, but are lucky enough to have, on the contrary ours , enlightened and more awake rulers.
* Municipal Councilor Pd Pisa
© reserved reproduction