The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) received the Maxima Laude Cavalieri del Bene Award at the Campidoglio.
The event, now in its eleventh edition, celebrates excellence that works with civic, solidarity and social utility purposes and includes the awarding of the Maxima Laude Prize to ten winners among the protagonists of the prestigious editorial work "100 Enti Associazioni Cavalieri del Bene" edited by the patron of the RDE publishing house Riccardo Dell'Anna.
Representing the INGV was the Director of the National Earthquake Observatory (ONT - INGV) Lucia Margheriti who commented on the awarding of the prize as follows:
“It has been an honor for me to represent INGV in this context in which our Institute has been awarded the highest recognition together with other very important Institutions. I would like to share this award with all the INGV staff who represent the engine of the advancement of research in Geosciences”.
INGV President Carlo Doglioni adds:
"The INGV has a formidable heritage of instruments and laboratories to listen to the Earth and grasp its secrets, but its greatest wealth is the over one thousand two hundred people who passionately make it live every day in the awareness of the privilege of working for the growth of knowledge, with the responsibility and pride of contributing to the safety of citizens. We work to find the meaning of life, of our origin, to learn to defend ourselves from the vitality of nature with its earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, floods, insidious and silent degassing”.
INGV is a Public Research Institution, part of the national civil protection service. It carries out research activities in the field of geophysical disciplines, volcanology and their applications, carrying out seismic and volcanic surveillance functions of the national territory, making the data collected by its national and local monitoring networks available to the entire scientific community.
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Photos – A moment of the award ceremony in the Campidoglio