Outreach
NUPEX – NUCLEAR PHYSICS EXPERIENCE
NUPEX provides a free database of knowledge, created and maintained by expert nuclear physicists from all over Europe. It:
- offers teachers and students reliable, up-to-date information on nuclear science in several major European languages.
- explains whether or not skeptics’ fears about some applications of nuclear physics, such as the growing use of nuclear power plants, are justified.
INTERVIEW BY ECT* RESEARCHER SIMONE TAIOLI TO LOCAL TV CHANNEL

On June 3, ECT* Senior Researcher Simone Taioli gave an interview on nuclear energy to the local television channel TV33. During the interview, he discussed the role of nuclear energy and renewable sources in the national and international energy mix, highlighting the technological and economic aspects of these energy sources and their contribution to the energy transition. Click HERE to watch the interview (Select “Puntata 34”, June 3).
ROUND TABLE: LE SFIDE DELL’ENERGIA NUCLEARE
On May 13, 2026, ECT*/FBK researcher Simone Taioli leads a round table on “Le sfide dell’energia nucleare – tra sostenibilità e sicurezza” at the Urban Center in Rovereto.
JOINT WORKSHOP ECT*/FBK – ACCADEMIA DEGLI AGIATI “THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS BETWEEN PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY”

On February 4 and 5, 2026 ECT*/FBK researchers Giovanni Garberoglio and Simone Taioli speak at the workshop “Esperimenti mentali tra fisica e filosofia”, organized by Maurizio Dapor (ECT*/FBK) and Manuela Valle (University of Trento) at the Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati.
WORKSHOP CHANGE GAME – giocare per prepararsi alle sfide di una società sostenibile
Event organized at ECT* on 19-20 May, 2025, by Chiara Menotti (CNR-INO, Trento), Alessio Recati (CNR-INO, Trento), and Armida Torreggiani (CNR-ISOF, Bologna)
GLI SCIENZIATI E LE SFIDE DEL XXI SECOLO: il nucleare e la guerra
Event Gli Scienziati e le sfide del XXI secolo: il nucleare e la guerra organized by Maurizio Dapor (ECT*) at the Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati

20 February, 2025: Talk by Dr. Simone Taioli (ECT*), Le sfide dell’energia nucleare: tra sostenibilità e sicurezza
FAI DAYS IN AUTUMN 2024
On October 12 and 13, as part of an event organized by the Fondo Ambiente Italiano, ECT* opened its doors for the public to admire a magnificent villa turned into a haven for theoretical physics.
30th ANIVERSARY OF ECT*
Il lungo viaggio degli antinuclei
| Laura Fabbietti (TUM/Germany)
Interview
Professor Gert Aarts (ECT* Director Jan 2021- March 2024)
25th ANNIVERSARY OF ECT*
Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Neutron Stars: A Journey In Einstein’s Universe | Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe University/Frankfurt)