Scholars at Risk

IRPPS joins with CNR in Scholars at Risks ( ), an international network of over 500 other higher education institutions in 40 countries around the world, which promotes academic freedom and protects scholars whose lives are in danger or whose work in research, education and the “third mission” is severely compromised .

The SAR sponsors activities:

– protection, creating temporary scholarships for academics who apply for protection

– advocacy, to raise awareness in civil and political society towards cases of attack on academic freedom in different national contexts

– research and training, on the topics of human rights, academic freedoms, academic refugees and reception policies for researchers and students.

Precisely as part of training activities and in order to be able to activate within the network, on days 10, 17, 24 November and 4 December 2023, the implementation of the training course entitled "Guidelines for the reception of scholars/at-risk”, proposed and organized by the Reception and Training working groups of the SAR-Italy Board. Then the news on the CNR website with the references of the course, aimed at management and research staff of the central offices and individual institutes and the technical-administrative staff of the individual structures (departments, institutes, laboratories).

 Virginia Coda Nunziante, CNR, e Stefano degli Uberti, IRPPS-CNR, are representatives for the CNR of the activities that will be promoted within the network.

SAR Italia's experience is demonstrating the usefulness of a national network in order to: promote i relations with local, national and international institutions/organisations also with a view to the third mission of universities; facilitate it exchange of good practices between universities and with local and national civil society networks, as well as forms of common planning in the areas of intervention indicated above; assist academics at risk in the transition phases between the various hosted universities and in their eventual return to their homeland. (SAR-Italy).