by InTrieste
This year’s ‘Trieste Next’ is not to be missed. The festival will welcome 300 scientists, humanists and important guests from Italy and around the world, a hundred events, a third of which are proposed in English, a new literary prize, “Science Book of the Year”, dedicated to the masters of scientific dissemination, 45 exhibition spaces in Piazza Unità, 65 activities for schools, and a title, “A new world. Science, culture, innovation for a sustainable future”, which mimics Aldous Huxley’s most famous science fiction novel.
For its XII edition Trieste Next, scheduled from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th September in the capital of Friuli Venezia Giulia, expands, with an increasingly international program and very important guests, including Andrea Rinaldo, winner of the International Stockholm Water Prize 2023, defined as the “Nobel of Water”, the parastronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) John McFall, Henry Sanderson and Paul Ekins, among the world’s leading experts in the geopolitics of resources, Giulio Boccaletti, scientific director of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Changes climate change and chief strategy officer of The Nature Conservancy, the largest environmental organization in the world, Ersilia Vaudo, astrophysicist and chief diversity officer of the ESA, Sandra Savaglio, famous astrophysicist from the University of Calabria, to whom Time magazine dedicated a cover, Chiara Valerio, well-known writer and essayist, and Bruce Bassett, cosmologist at the African Institute for Mathematical Science in Cape Town and author of the famous essay Relativity in Comics.
The festival, in its 2023 edition, will attempt to trace, through a kaleidoscope of highly authoritative voices, a profile of this new world trying as always to imagine the future that awaits us. It will explore topics such as climate change and the water emergency, the energy transition and the costs of sustainability, artificial intelligence and the benefits and risks it entails for human beings, robotics and the digital transition, biotechnology and the challenges of 21 century, new materials and new drugs, space and what we still have to understand about the Universe.
Trieste Next will also offer major events, such as the concert by the CEMAN Orchestra, made up of 40 elements from 12 different Eastern European countries. And a rich program for schools, which have always been protagonists of the event, because the world to come belongs first of all to the new generations.
Detailed information on locations, times and the complete and updated program of Trieste Next 2023 are available on the website www.triestenext.it.
