A group of honors students from Sant’Anna School (Scuola Sant’Anna, Pisa) was given the opportunity to take part in “Mare Aperto”, the biggest live-fire military exercise organized by the Italian Navy every year. Thanks to more than 10 years of collaboration between Scuola Sant’Anna and the Italian Armed Forces, three honors students, coordinated by a PhD student, will take part in the exercise with the role of political and legal advisors, under the scientific supervision of Andrea de Guttry, Professor of International Law at Sant'Anna School

Since the end of 2020, appalling atrocities are being committed against civilians in the Ethiopian region of Tigray and beyond. The actions of Ethiopia, Eritrea and non-State actors have created a crisis with devastating humanitarian consequences, with at least 2 million displaced.

The crop genetics team at Sant’Anna Shool keeps collaborating with Ethiopian smallholder farmers to explore new paths to crop breeding for local adaptation. In a new study recently just published in Communications Biology, the Sant’Anna team worked with international institutions and with 1.165 local farmers demonstrating that farmers’ traditional knowledge can be combined with genomic and climatic data to increase the genetic gain associated to prediction accuracy of wheat performance in challenging farming conditions