The partners involved are the University of Udine and the Polytechnic University of Marche, the Municipality of Udine, CAFC ltd, the Research Center Metris, Izvor Ploče, and the Municipality of Pescara. These activities are part of a coordinated action that has also been positively received and included in the Proesof 2020 initiatives programme that was postponed to September 2020 due to the latest emergency lockdown. 

We have also planned many outside events and several call to actions with the University of Split - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy of Split and the Institute of Public Health Zadar, the Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council (IC-CNR) and the Split Water and Sewerage Company Ltd. in order to make people aware of the role that each of us can have in limiting our impact on the environment.

While waiting to be able to do all these events, our partners and their families have organised themselves and prepared some proposals that can be made at home. 

THE FLOWERS OF HOPE  is the first project elaborated thanks to the researcher Anna Annibaldi specialised in Analytic Chemistry that is also a mum who is staying safe at home with her kids in Fano (Italy) in this period of time. Anna explains: “There is a scientific phenomenon called capillarity. It is the force by which water molecules, due to their partial positive and negative charges, are able to strongly attract some molecules of other substances. The forces that manifest in this phenomenon are cohesion, adhesion and surface tension. It’s thanks to the capillarity that plants absorb water with the roots and transfer it to all parts of the stem and leaves. From the capillarity of the water derives the imbibition, that is the capillary movement of the water molecules that inflate the soaked substance. This is a way that we can helpt to "explain" this phenomenon to kids by making flowers bloom and also to talk about the emergency that we are living. “

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