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A research carried out by sociologists at the Università Cattolica for the Banco Farmaceutico Foundation's Observatory on Health Poverty analysed 221 charitable organisations, revealing a sharp drop in the number of beneficiaries during the pandemic year. Listen to the voice of Luca Pesenti, professor of General Sociology in Università Cattolica.

The research project “Working out of poverty: accompanying the poor to become dignified agents of their development”, financed by the Università Cattolica, involves multiple national and international research partners. It has been developed with reference to four specific case studies aimed at highlighting the role that decent work creation and durable relationships bring in terms of poverty reduction. In particular we talk about one of them whiach refers to women’s economic participation in rural Jordan. Listen to the voice of Sara Balestri, researcher in International Economic Policies.

Today we talk about a study of the CRAST research centre at the Piacenza campus of Università Cattolica that has developed a mathematical model of the freezing phase of vegetable processing in the agri-food sector. The CoACh project (Cold management in Agro-food Chains: solutions for process digitalization) involves some industrial partners and several university research centres. Listen to the voice of Andrea Bassani, Professor of Impianti dell’industria alimentare.

The results of the HENIVOT study on patients with Covid-19, conducted by Domenico Luca Grieco and Massimo Antonelli (for the COVID-ICU Gemelli Study Group), suggests that “the helmet” could be the best way to make these patients 'breathe'. Listen to the voice of Domenico Grieco, Intensivist and Anesthesiologist at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRRCS”.

The “University Interest Project” Migrations | Mediations. Arts and Communication As Resources for Intercultural Dialogue, conducted at the Department of Communication and Performing Arts of Università Cattolica since 2017 tried to map and analyse cultural associations, foundations, social cooperatives that operate in Milan for the medium-term social and cultural inclusion of migrants. Listen to the voice of Laura Peja, Professor of Theatre and performing Arts.

The use of videoconferencing can generate a sense of placelessness that has an impact on our episodic memory, our personal and professional identity, and increases the risk of burnout. It comes out from a study of psychologists of Università Cattolica. Listen to the voice of Silvia Serino, post doctoral researcher in Communication Psychology.

Legitimate companies with opaque ownership structures are often employed to cover corruption, financial fraud and money laundering. In the past years, researchers of Transcrime have developed a specific expertise in applying data analytics approaches and developing IT tools for investigating the ownership structure of legitimate companies, and identifying anomalies potentially linked to financial crime. Listen to the voice of Antonio Bosisio, researcher at Transcrime and coordinator of EU-funded project DATACROS.

Today we talk about cancer patients and malnutrition. In a review published in Clinical Lung Cancer, experts from the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli set as a priority objective the maintenance of an adequate nutritional status of cancer patients. Listen to the voice of Emilio Bria, Head of the Thoraco-Pulmonary Neoplasms Unit of the hospital.

The new opportunities brought about by the pandemic crisis are explained by a research of the Transformative Actions Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Università Cattolica, based on interviews with the managers of coworking spaces during the last months of 2020. Listen to the voice of Alessandro Gerosa, research fellow in Economic Sociology.

A researchers’ team composed by Università Cattolica and Confindustria Brescia has developed an index which reports the financial health of 2,905 manufacturing firms in the province of Brescia. The aim is to develop a bankruptcy prediction model.
Listen to the voice of Daniela Bragoli, researcher in Economics.