00:00What do you think about the PNRR project?
00:04I really wanted, before the opening of the academic year,
00:07in Aula Magna, to inaugurate this square,
00:11because, first of all, it is a PNRR project,
00:14and we always talk about PNRR projects as late, useful, useless projects.
00:19Instead, as you can see, this is a fantastic project,
00:22because it is a modern, innovative urban regeneration.
00:26There is not only a greening, but as I was saying before,
00:29we have a very detailed sensor system,
00:33which goes from measuring the temperature in the fauld
00:37to measuring the heat island through satellites,
00:40so we will really understand why our city,
00:43when there is rain, unfortunately, more and more often torrential,
00:47then, as we know, causes a lot of damage.
00:50So, really, from geology, biology, chemistry, to economics,
00:55because, of course, the effects of heat islands,
00:58as well as, in short, the quality of having a bad air quality,
01:02unfortunately, are also measured in damage to health and economy.
01:05So, the idea is really to have, in universities,
01:09a point of reference for society.
01:11In these periods when there is a lot of talk about universities
01:14and also about the challenges that await the university of finance,
01:17of the future of Athens, what I say, also as an economist,
01:21is that if we really want to guarantee a future,
01:24as Semoglo would say, the Nobel Prize in Economics of this year,
01:27of prosperity, then institutions and universities
01:30have to work together to make a change,
01:33and the change derives from making economic growth sustainable
01:38and significant through the two engines
01:41that the university can really nest,
01:44which are the formation of human capital on the one hand
01:46and technological innovation on the other.
01:48And here there is everything, because if you see the dozens
01:50of young researchers, many PNRR,
01:53they are doctoral students, appointed researchers,
01:56really wonderful young guys,
01:58who with passion really considered this their laboratory.
02:02This is something really epochal in my opinion,
02:04also, and let me speak with passion that distinguishes me,
02:08also for the fact that there is no research field,
02:11but we have studied urban regeneration
02:14really holistically, if you want,
02:16renaissance, all the subjects together.
02:18So my appeal, which I am sure will come,
02:21how to say, listened well,
02:24is to really invest in the Athens,
02:27invest in young people and also guarantee
02:29to the more than 12,000 young PNRR researchers
02:32a future not outside our country,
02:34but within our country.
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