2015-2024
The results produced in the 2015-2024 period of activity by the STOPTIGRE project are numerous and concern both scientific production and outreach and third mission activities:
In an age of polarized thinking and verticalization of knowledge, not only scientific knowledge, the need for branching expertise, capable of linking rhizomatically with all branches of knowledge, becomes evident and necessary. The extremely positive and fruitful experience of shared work, and with transdisciplinary approach, of professors and students of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II and the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, carried out within the project STOPTIGRE since 2019, has given rise to the need to extend the field of action and to involve other research profiles in future actions of study and environmental regeneration of the territories of the Campania region. With this premise, the M.I.S.T.A.K.E. (Mediterranean Initiative of Science, Technology, Arts, Knowledge, and Environment) collective was born, which includes among its participants not only professors and students from the aforementioned institutions, but also professors and students from the Department of Materials Engineering and the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II since 2024.
Furthermore, faculty members of the M.I.S.T.A.K.E. collective have joined the board of faculty members for the new national doctoral program in “Visual Arts, Performing Arts, New Media, New Technologies, Music, and Cultural Heritage.” This program focuses on the development of research and training projects with an interdisciplinary art-science approach.
3 awards and/or showcase selections
5 scientific publications in international journals or books, with peer-review
1 presentation of the project at TEDx conference
8 presentations of the project at international conferences:
First Coordination Meeting on Sterile Insect Technique for Area-Wide Integrated Pest Managment – IAEA – Tapachula, Mexico – 4-8 July 2016.
Area-Wide Management of Insect Pests: Integrating the Sterile Insect and Related Nuclear and Other Techniques – IAEA – Wien, Austria – 22-26 May 2017.
Establishing Genetic Control Programmes for Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes “Regional Coordination Meeting on Progresses and Perspectives on the Control Programmes for Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes Including Pilot SIT Trials” – IAEA – Wien, Austria – 17-19 December 2018.
Regional Coordination Meeting on the Potential Use of Sterile Insect Technique for the Integrated Control of Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes in Europe – IAEA/WHO – Athens, Greece – 24-28 February 2020
ISNTD Bites 2021 – Vector control & vector-borne diseases (Online conference), 27 October 2021.
ISNTD Festival 2022 – Creative industries, science communication & public engagement for global health (Online conference), 24 March 2022.
International conference “Citizen science and Citizen art: a mosquitoes ecological eradication story”, Italian Academic Centre, New York, USA, 26 July 2023.
International conference “DENGUE, Know, Act, Stop” organized by the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases and Foot Impact NGO, London, 15 June 2024. (Online conference)
6 public dissemination events on the island of Procida as part of the European Researchers’ Night (years 2018-2024), in collaboration with LeNuvoleScienza of Naples.
1000 citizens involved in Citizen-science projects
550 first and second grade secondary school students involved in citizen-science actions
More than 10000 people involved in public dissemination and communication activities
Development and/or testing of 3 smart apps for Citizen-science actions
1 International training course, co-organized with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on social communication for invasive mosquito control programs
1 Official project in the program of Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022, of art-science experimentation for the active involvement of local communities in actions to control vector insects.
