Events
IFIA: Euroinvent is organizing an online exhibition
For reasons of security and health due to the spread of Coronavirus, EUROINVENT 2020 will be held online. We will not postpone or cancel the event!
Giovanni Sapere
Giovanni Sapere
News
“Covid-19 Challenge”: the CALL4Ideas for Healthcare Innovation gets underway
The “Covid-19 Challenge”, the Call for Ideas promoted by Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Marzotto Venture Accelerator to develop innovative projects and ideas in the health care field, starts.
Giovanni Sapere
News
“Join the Maker Army”: Gidi Grinstein’s appeal against Coronavirus
Gidi Grinstein appealed to makers around the world: “If you can invent something useful against the Coronavirus, you must act immediately.
Giovanni Sapere
IT
Coronavirus: Nasa provides supercomputer SGI Altix
NASA has made available to researchers the SGI Altix supercomputer “Kalpana”: it will be used to study, analyze and process the data collected on the Coronavirus.
Giovanni Sapere
News
$1M in prizes to be awarded at Expo 2020 Dubai
IFIA informs to the members. Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development in partnership with UN-HABITAT and Dubai Municipality
Giovanni Sapere
Medicine
It’s Italian the “inflatable helmet” against Coronavirus
The company Dimar di Medolla is one of the few companies in the world able to produce a special inflatable helmet able to protect healthcare personnel from the Coronavirus.
Giovanni Sapere
IT
Coronavirus: in Taiwan, the “electronic fence” for quarantined inhabitants
Taiwan’s Cyber Security Department will use the GPS data from smartphones to check that residents comply with the quarantine imposed by the Coronavirus
Giovanni Sapere
Medicine
From Japan: “Avigan defeats Coronavirus”. AIFA clarifies
The video of the Italian Cristiano Aresu, from Japan, who claims that the antiviral Avigan is effective for the treatment of Coronavirus, is popular on Facebook.
Giovanni Sapere
Medicine
Coronavirus: the different strategies for the development of a vaccine
Laboratories around the world are implementing different strategies to create an effective coronavirus vaccine.
Giovanni Sapere
News
$160,000 cash prize awarded by Nasa Tournament Lab in the tiny bot challenge
$160,000 cash prize awarded by Nasa Tournament Lab in the tiny bot challenge. NASA’s new lunar exploration program is the Artemis Program.
Giovanni Sapere
News
Coronavirus, Trump’s shock offer: “1 billion for a vaccine exclusive to the US”
US President Donald Trump allegedly offered $1 billion to German pharmaceutical company CureVac for exclusive rights to a coronavirus vaccine.
Giovanni Sapere
Medicine
Coronavirus, the cure comes from Holland. “We have detected antibody”
In the Netherlands, a team of researchers at the University of Utrecht has identified an antibody that will allow the development of a cure for the Coronavirus in a short time.
Giovanni Sapere
Medicine
UK, shock hypothesis: “60% of the population will contract the Coronavirus”.
The words of Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s medical adviser, come as a shock: “60% of Britons will have to contract the Coronavirus to develop herd immunity”.
Giovanni Sapere
IT
Coronavirus, server down: internet, Whatsapp e Facebook KO in Italy
The huge flow of information and content constantly updated on Coronavirus has overloaded servers throughout Italy: Internet, Facebook and WhatsApp are down in many regions.
Giovanni Sapere
News
Coronavirus: USA cancel military operation “Defender Europe”
The US government has decided to cancel “for precautionary reasons related to the Coronavirus emergency” the military operation “Defender Europe” scheduled in the coming days.
Giovanni Sapere
Health
Coronavirus, stress and panic lower immune defenses
Several studies have proven the existence of a strong correlation between the human psyche and the state of health. In detail, it is widely demonstrated that excessive stress production produces hormones that immunodepress the body, eventually weakening it.
Giovanni Sapere
Medicine
Coronavirus, the first vial of vaccine is ready: tests on 45 volunteers are underway
The biotech company Moderna has produced the first experimental vaccine against the Coronavirus: tests on 45 volunteers affected by Covid-19 are about to start in Seattle.
Giovanni Sapere
News
IFIA Academy on the road to progress
The IFIA academy was founded in 2018 aiming to recognize and encourage university inventors, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, educate and mentor interested students in the fields of invention at the universities from all around the world.
Giovanni Sapere