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    <description>The latest taggings for italian funding</description>
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      <title>0.5% of your taxes. To whom, and why?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - Italians are filing their taxes in these days, and they are given the opportunity to choose the charity to which they wish to donate 0.5% of it. "Cinque per mille":http://www.5-per-mille.it/ translates to 5‰, or 0.5%. It does add up. You]]>
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      <title>The (near) future of Italian Science with the new government </title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - With Italian public funds for scientific research at about "1.1% of the GDP":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7188/full/452685b.html, substantially below the European average, and a huge thirst for funds, as indicated by large numbers of applications and correspondingly miniature funding threshold rates (see this "recent]]>
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      <title>Tech Transfer Venture Initiative</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - Tech Transfer gets a boost in the BelPaese, thanks to the combined philanthropy action of the Milan Chamber of Commerce and six bank foundations of Centre-North Italy. TTVenture, launched on February 14, 2008, has already reached a fund of 60]]>
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      <title>Science Job appointments in Italy. Winds of change ahead?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - In Italy, science posts in Universities and National Labs are assigned based on _open national selections_. Put simply, and according to many voices, _concorsi_, as they are named, may not be exactly open, with the selections being designed to fit]]>
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      <title>Welcome to Nature Network Italy - Introduce yourself please</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - Hello and Welcome to Nature Network Italy. !http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2323318287_bde9193222_o.jpg! To break the ice, you may use this forum topic to introduce yourself. Please hit the *reply* button below. *Where do you work*? *What do you do*? Additionally, you may indicate *what]]>
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      <title>Nature Network Italy</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - A group to discuss strategies for advancement of Italian Science, careers, funding opportunities, and the relationship between scientists and the public]]>
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      <title>Espresso Grant Info: CARIPLO foundation call</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - A number of private Italian banks indulge in philanthropy. "CARIPLO":http://www.fondazionecariplo.it/ (Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde) foundation operates in "Lombardy":http://www.initaly.com/regions/lombardy/lombardy.htm and supports, among other things, scientific research. The current open call for submission of scientific proposals is available "online":http://www.fondazionecariplo.it/portal/upload/ent3/1/FC_bandi2008_web.pdf .]]>
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      <title>Good bye, caffeine</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - No more caffeine or short sleep nights for me, please. At least for a little bit. I just submitted my grant proposal, last night at 1:52AM. Yay! This was for the Italian Ministry of Health, which has been calling for]]>
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      <title>Italian Academia goes to Court</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - If you walk in any Italian bookshop these days, you are bound to hit the displays containing books on national scandals. 15 years after "Tangentopoli":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangentopoli (Bribesville), which brought to surface the corruption-based system that used to rule Italy, books like]]>
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      <title>From friends review to peer review</title>
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        <![CDATA[Massimo Pinto - _Friends Review_ is when, one way or another, you get funded because of a little help from your friends. Namely, you write your scientific proposal, sure, but this does not get strictly "Peer Reviewed":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review, therefore it does not get that]]>
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