Research plays a crucial role in the activities of Unimore, and the following five-year data can prove this:
• Journal articles (2019-2023): 13,942
• National competitive research projects (2019-2023): over 400
• European and international competitive research projects (2019-2023): 199
For more details on Unimore's research outputs, visit the IRIS Unimore website.
Research activities at the University are carried out within the Departments and Interdepartmental Research Centres, which offer modern and well-equipped laboratories. These activities are often developed in collaboration with external organizations, institutions, and companies. For example, the Interdepartmental Centre “Grandi Strumenti” is a Unimore centre of excellence, where important and advanced tools can be found and used also by external companies. In addition, Unimore has financed the modernization of the Scientific Computing Laboratory, enabling research in this context, where data hold strategic importance.
In the medical field, the research activities of the Departments are integrated with those of local healthcare facilities.
Research training ranges from PhD programmes to the recruitment and development of talents, the participation in calls for regional, national, European, and international research funding, the international research relations, and the evaluation of research outputs.
The research activities background is wide and consists of a significant number of active groups across a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines, such as social sciences and humanities, medicine, life sciences, engineering, and basic sciences.
European, national, and regional plans represent important opportunities to promote and arrange various research activities, particularly in relation to MUR calls reserved for National Centres, Extended Partnerships, and NRRP (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) Research and Innovation Infrastructures. Unimore is an active and proactive member on various subjects such as health, environment, sustainability, and innovation. The funding obtained through NRRP projects is also a result of Unimore's multidisciplinary features, which not only allow participation with "vertical" research groups that collaborate with international networks but also gather professional profiles capable of proposing projects based on Unimore's expertise.
Unimore is an active participant in several National Centres created with NRRP funding, particularly in the following four National Centres: HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing, National Centre for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA Technology, Sustainable Mobility Centre – National Centre for Sustainable Mobility, and National Biodiversity Future Centre. This engagement will enable Unimore to become a primary actor in national and European research, acquire new laboratories and equipment to expand and improve research activities.
Unimore also participates in other NRRP-related initiatives.
Unimore's strategic vision is outlined in the University's Strategic Guidelines.
The University aims to preserve and support specific competences and recognize several strengths:
• A significant part of the research activities within the University shares common denominators, allowing the deployment of critical resources (human, cultural, instrumental, and financial), which is an essential precondition to meet and overcome the challenges of national and international competition.
• There are "peaks of excellence" coexisting with high-quality research, the latter being a necessary condition for expanding and renewing the first ones.
• The University has a proper presence in the local socio-economic context.
• The Quality Assurance system for the University research is well-established.
• Detailed procedures and criteria for external evaluation and rewards are in place for the distribution of university research resources.
• There is a conscious and shared awareness on the theme of "young researchers."