Cnr, Carrozza will no longer transport with the Pegaso, Mercatorum and San Raffaele telematics
The president of the Cnr, Maria Chiara Carrozza, was therefore in conflict of interest as a member of the advisory board of Multiversity (Pegaso, Mercatorum, San Raffaelle), as written several times by Start Magazine. Francis Walsingham's letter
Dear director,
don't worry: for once I won't bother you with my usual criticisms and complaints. In fact, I have to tell you: well done.
Oh yes, because, even if no one will recognize it, Start Magazine induced – after its mini-press campaign on the conflict of interests of the president of the Cnr in Multiversity – Maria Chiara Carrozza (precisely president of the Cnr) to backtrack from the advisory board of the Multiversity group, which includes the Pegaso, Mercatorum and San Raffaele online universities.
I read the news this morning in La Verità : the newspaper founded and directed by Maurizio Belpietro learned from the CNR that its president "took a step back by refusing the position due to the potential conflict of interest". A conflict that you at Start , I admit, have sensed and highlighted for some time .
But obviously (because, as you often tell me in our email correspondence, the arrogance of paper newspapers towards digital-only newspapers is infinite) no one will recognize you. But I know that you calmly don't care about these issues, and you're right.
But let's go back to the conflict of interests of the president of the Cnr in the advisory board of the Multiversity group led by the CEO Fabio Vaccarono, former number one of Google Italy from which he is drawing heavily not only by hiring teachers, but also managers who perhaps are sharecropping.
Article 15 of the CNR statute , of which Carrozza will be president until 2025, clearly states that "the president, the general director, the members of the board of directors, of the scientific council and of the board of auditors cannot be administrators or employees of companies participating in research programs in which the Cnr is present".
There are several research programs between the Council and Multiversity, as reported by La Verità . The Cnr is involved in the so-called Prin, i.e. Projects of Significant National Interest: Mercatorum has recently won six (as triumphantly announced by the same online university), San Raffaele five ( here is the press release from the same online university of the Multiversity group) and Pegaso four ( here all the details provided by Pegaso ). Total value: approximately 3 million euros.
Congratulations to Vaccarono, obviously.
I ask myself just one question, at the end of the story: is it possible that Carrozza hasn't studied the statute of the body he presides over? If so, it would be rejected.
Best regards,
Francis Walsingham
Ps : obviously I leave aside considerations on the absence of any intervention-action-declaration by ministers on the matter; evidently, as I mentioned in a previous letter, the ministerial structure of the University and Research Department headed by Anna Maria Bernini is made up of real Lettians or former Lettians – like Carrozza – and therefore everything is fine, Madame the Marchesa.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/carrozza-rinuncia-multiversity/ on Fri, 13 Oct 2023 06:09:35 +0000.