Normal Director, no boycott, just stop dual use

(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 01 – “We do not boycott, and we do not ask anyone to boycott”. This is the explanation that the director of the Scuola Normale of Pisa, Luigi Ambrosio, gave of the motion approved by a majority on March 26 on collaborations with Israel. Specifying that he wanted to clarify after the controversy, Ambrosio explained the meaning of the text: “In this historical moment we believe it is necessary and urgent to promote a reflection not only internally, inspired by Article 11 of our Constitution, regarding the risk of so-called “dual use” – civil but potentially also military – of some scientific and technological research. It is from this perspective that we have asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carefully reconsider the calls for cooperation with all foreign states”. This is a type of tender that “covers not only the strictly scientific area, but also the industrial and technological one, starting from the one issued in recent months as part of the Italy-Israel agreements, in order to offer guarantees in this sense to the community of scholars, today and in the future”, added Ambrosio. (HANDLE).