“Giovani per la Scienza” Ass
ociation was born in Savona on 19 April 2005 from the passion for physics of a little group of young people. Its registered office has since then been at “Unione Industriali” (the Employers’ Association) of Savona.
“Giovani per la Scienza” Association includes young students from Liceos and Technical Institutes, university students, and young people which already entered the world of work: they all share the same passion for physics and science.
Today the Association has more than eighty members. It collaborates with the INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) and the Centro Fermi of Rome, and it is supported by the “Unione Industriali” of Savona. The Association’s operational headquarters are the University Campus of Savona and the laboratories of the ITIS (Industrial and Technical Institute), where the group reproduces the most important scientific experiments in human history.
The members of the Association meet every Friday at University Campus of Savona to study the most important scientific topics as energy, thermodynamics, atoms, electromagnetism, superconductors and applications of Mathematics to Science. Here they created a laboratory where they set new experiments and scientific instruments like an autotransporting robot, a model of the Stirling engine, a model of the Galilei’s inclined plane, electrostataic and electromagnetic machines, optics experiments with lasers and the ion-catcher pipe.
Direct experience is taken in great account, and for this reason tours to the greatest scientific set-ups in Europe have been performed during the last years. Destinations of some of these visits have been the Deutsches Museum of Munich, a nuclear power station in Switzerland, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, the Verkehrshaus der Schweiz in Luzern, the “Cité de L’Espace” in Toulouse and the Columbus Control Center in Munich.
“Giovani per la Scienza” Association has organized public conferences about the Physics of the Cosmos, the life of astronauts inside the International Space Station, the Physics for Medicine and the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Accelerator. The Association has welcomed Prof. Antonino Zichichi to its laboratories, and it has brought to Savona the EEE (Extreme Energy Events) national project, directed by him. As a consequence of this, some students from ITIS, “Liceo Classico” and “Liceo Scientifico” of Savona have gone to CERN in Genève, and they have built three detectors for extreme energy cosmic rays. These detectors are going to be installed in the laboratories of the three mentioned high schools, in order to pick up particles from Space.
“Giovani per la Scienza” Association is in contact with HE Space Operation, has organized a public conference in Savona in order to present the activities of the Columbus Engineering Support Control Team of the Columbus Control Center (Col CC) from Munich, the support team for the International Space Station (ISS) and has welcomed professor Roberto Battiston at the University Campus in Savona before the launch of the ISS module AMS-02 (a module of International Space Station assembled to study dark matter and antimatter in the Space).