Statement from INGV Staff

The undersigned employees of INGV, gathered in the Assembly on Monday 1 October 2018, express their concern for the repeated instrumental attacks undertaken by some newspapers which could damage the reputation of the Institute and consequently the important work carried out with dedication to favor of scientific research and society.

INGV is made up of hundreds of people, researchers, technologists, technicians and administrators who dedicate their professional life to the study of earth sciences, to the monitoring of the national territory thus contributing to the prevention of seismic, volcanic and environmental risks.

The undersigned INGV employees intend to strongly stigmatize the instrumental use of any internal organizational problems, physiological and characteristic of the dynamics of a Public Research Body, to support alleged defamation actions aimed mainly at discrediting and destabilizing the Body.

As civil servants we are open to receiving and discussing constructive and merit-based criticism of the problems, but not to accepting repeated attacks on the institution for which we work every day.