ROME, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The satisfaction of citizens in imagining how to improve their lives while understanding and protecting the universe is a theme increasingly treasured by Italy-China scientific cooperation.
City of Science, a science education initiative in Naples, a city in southern Italy, has made of popularization of science a mission for development and is collaborating with China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and other Chinese institutions to build a new global economy based on knowledge.
""We started with the idea that technology not only is insufficient to create a harmonious civilization, but it could even be destructive. Scientific culture is what citizens need to understand how technology should be used properly for the sake of humankind,"" Vincenzo Lipardi, CEO of City of Science, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The City of Science was established between 1987 and 1996 in a former industrial district of Naples and grew to include the science exhibition center and a business innovation center for start-up companies.
Remote Future Harry Winks Jersey , an annual event themed this year The Sea, closed at the City of Science on Sunday after 11 days of scientific and artistic exhibitions, meetings with leading personalities, science labs, movies, theater, music, dance and sports competitions.
Year after year, the program has highlighted the intimate connection between science and the liberal arts generally intended as ""culture Harry Kane Jersey ,"" Lipardi explained. ""In fact there is no barrier between them. The modern world, which relies very much on science, also builds its progress on liberal arts,"" he said.
Thanks to its ancient history and modern development, China plays a key role in promoting the concept that a bright future is actually determined by a profound past, the CEO stressed.
An exhibition from the China Science and Technology Museum, a major science museum in Beijing, was among the initiatives featured at the 2014 edition of Remote Future. The exhibition took visitors in a journey through the inventions and scientific discoveries related to the sea, from astronomy to watercraft Georges-Kevin N'Koudou Jersey , made in China over the centuries.
""It has been eight years since we started collaborating with China's institutions on popularization of science and technological exchanges,"" Lipardi went on saying. Some 150 bilateral agreements have been signed in the course of what has become a ""habitual scientific relation"" between Italy and China, he added.
After all, Naples, a city with a long and varied history and once the capital of the Kingdom of Naples, has deep-rooted ties with China, he noted. Naples hosts the oldest university of sinology and oriental studies in Europe, founded in 1732 by missionary Matteo Ripa, who worked as a painter and copper-engraver at the Qing court in the 18th century.
""We continue to look at China with great interest Fernando Llorente Jersey , being fully aware of its leading role at the international level for investments in research and development,"" Luigi Amodio, Director General of City of Science, said.
He underlined that not only China is a cutting-edge country as regards scientific innovation, but is also strongly promoting scientific culture and education. ""China has become a development model of scientific communication,"" Amodio stressed.
On average, some 70 percent of the City of Science's visitors are students, and 30 percent are families with children, he told Xinhua. Sea Erik Lamela Jersey , he said, is connected to many global issues from climate change to food and health, and the same concept is valid for other themes developed by the City of Science in the past editions such as space, neuroscience or robotics.
Amodio stressed that the City of Science aims at further enhancing collaboration with China on a variety of themes. ""For example, we are now looking forward to participating in the Science and Technology Week in Beijing, which will feature as many as around 10,000 initiatives throughout China in May,"" he said.
What China is doing, the director general explained to Xinhua Eric Dier Jersey , is of fundamental importance to raise awareness, especially among the young generations, about the need to combine growing technology with the respect for the Earth's limited resources.
Only by looking at science and liberal arts as complementary knowledge, humankind will be able to carry on a sustainable, healthy development, he said.