many big challenges remain unsolved in front to humanity, namely cancer, energy, intelligent hardware and environment, that only a truly internationalised broad research carried out down to the nanoscale could successfully undertake. Efforts at the national scale did provide so far a limited response due to the magnitude of the economical crisis and to the technological and scientific problems still largely underestimated.
The time is indeed running out on humanity and exceptional resources and attitudes are called for, and I am thereby directly appealing to you for the further reduction of nuclear arsenals and waste and for the nuclear disarmament to transfer military resourses in joint scientific and technological projects.
FONDAZIONE ELBA NICOLINI



