The backing of one’s own professor and help from a thick web of friends in the United States is fundamental, for a university career. An inevitable conduct according to Kristopher Gutierrez, Post-Doc at the SISSA of Trieste. Much distant though from the “degenerations” found in the Italian academic world.

To stir things up has been the project christened “Ateneo pulito” (www.ateneopulito.it) brought-upon by Lucia Lazzerini, full-tenured professor of Philology of Romance at the University of Florence. In Padua has been reintroduced by the prefect Antonio Padoin on his web site ‘www.rinnovareleistituzioni.it’. Riding the tide has arrievd the stance taken by the businessmen headed by Jacopo Silva, president of the Young members of Confindustria of Padua.