Third Mission

Public engagement, science communication, and outreach activities organised around quantum computing, computing education, robotics, artificial intelligence, and digital skills.
  • Event Organisation
  • Quantum Festival 2025, Co-founder & Organiser - second edition of the Quantum Festival in Pisa, with hands-on laboratories for more than 150 secondary-school students, a research track involving more than 70 young researchers in Italy, and a final public conference with more than 220 participants.
  • Pisa Quantum Festival 2024, Co-founder & Organiser - first public event in Pisa fully dedicated to quantum computing, with more than 120 participants, introductory lectures, academic and industry talks, and a hackathon.
  • Shaped By Technology, organiser - public seminar series on artificial intelligence, explainability, network medicine, and robotics.
  • Robotic Challenge: Play & Learn with Robots, organiser - outreach activities for secondary-school students during Festival della Robotica 2024 with Fondazione ISI, based on block and Python programming of five 6-axis robotic arms.
  • What a Wonderful Quantum World, organiser - educational and outreach path on quantum computing for the 2024 edition of the Italian Quantum Weeks in Pisa.
  • Qiskit Fall Fest 2023, organiser - three days of lessons, workshops, a technical hackathon, and talks at the University of Trieste with IBM Quantum support.
  • Mauriana Pesaresi Seminar Series 2023, organiser - annual seminar series where first-year PhD students in Computer Science at the University of Pisa present open research problems followed by moderated roundtables.
  • Science Communication and Outreach
  • Quantum Leap, Internet Festival 2025 - educational workshop, 2 repetitions.
  • L’invasione dei Mostrilli. Programma un mondo che evolve, Internet Festival 2025 - educational workshop, 3 repetitions.
  • Viaggio interstellare con la robotica, Internet Festival 2025 - educational workshop, 10 repetitions.
  • All You Can Code, Bright Night 2025 - outreach activity for approaching programming.
  • Qubit e Sfere di Bloch: scopri la fisica quantistica, Bright Night 2025 - outreach activity on quantum phenomena and technologies.
  • Intelligenza artificiale con MachineLearningForKids, Festival della Robotica 2025 - four outreach activities over two days for primary- and secondary-school students.
  • Arduino e robotica: costruiamo e programmiamo il nostro robot, Festival della Robotica 2025 - two outreach activities over two days on robotics and robot programming.
  • Many Shots, Many QPUs: How to Distribute Quantum Computing?, DayStributed 2025 - outreach activity on distributed quantum computing.
  • Quantum Software Engineering, PhD Spotlight 2025 - outreach activity on quantum software engineering.
  • Pisa Quantum Festival, 2024 - public quantum-computing event with more than 120 participants and academic/industry speakers.
  • Shaped By Technology, 2024 - seminar series on AI, explainability, network medicine, and robotics.
  • Sushi programming con micro:bit, Bright Night 2024 - programming outreach activity.
  • InterAttivaMente. Laboratori-gioco alla Cittadella Galileiana, 2024 - unplugged summer laboratory where participants programmed one another to draw constellations on a map.
  • Robotic Challenge: Play & Learn with Robots, Festival della Robotica 2024 - robotics and programming activities for secondary-school students.
  • What a Wonderful Quantum World, Italian Quantum Weeks 2024 - educational and outreach path on quantum computing.
  • Qiskit Fall Fest 2023 - lessons, workshops, hackathon, and talks on quantum computing at the University of Trieste.
  • Dal gatto di Schrödinger al Teletrasporto, Internet Festival 2023 - educational path for high-school students.
  • Bug Hunters, Internet Festival 2022 - educational workshop, 2 repetitions.
  • Contapassi e Micro:bit, Internet Festival 2021 - educational workshop, 2 repetitions.
  • #iorestoacasa e #programmo, 2020 - online programming video tutorials for young learners, accredited among the Italian Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digitalization digital-solidarity activities.
  • #MoonDojo, Luna50 2019 - educational laboratory for the festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.
  • Il micro:coin: Come funziona una blockchain?, Internet Festival 2019 - educational workshop, 2 repetitions.
  • Exhibitions
  • Acqua, tesoro dell’umanità, 2017 - exhibition/outreach activity during the XXII Settimana della Cultura Scientifica.
  • Genesis Soccer, Maker Faire Rome 2016 - robotics project ideated and coordinated by Giuseppe Bisicchia, selected among the accepted international proposals.