Next year's G7 chaired by Italy is an
"extraordinary opportunity" to promote scientific research,
Universities and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini said on
Saturday.
"We have a great history to build on, a present that is full of
vitality and excellence in research and innovation, a future
that is generative of challenges and goals," said Bernini during
an event to mark the 100th anniversary of the National Research
Council (CNR).
"For the future, we must attract even more private and foreign
investment, focus on competitiveness and on cooperation with the
world's best practices," she continued.
Science, said the minister, is not only a "tireless and
inexhaustible engine of development", but also "the key to our
well-being and eco-friendly growth".
"It is also, and above all, a method of knowledge and therefore
of democracy," she continued.
"Scientific research flourishes with study, doubt,
confrontation, and critical capacity, which are the most
inestimable and desirable assets for a free community,"
concluded Bernini.
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